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A database of over 600 advertisements and historical documents dated between 1911 and 1958, relating to the creation and influence of health-related advertising.

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- Carlay Company, Incorporated (9)
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- Testimonial--Product users Eleanor Ames (model), Mrs. A. S., Mrs. E. K. D., and Mrs. M. K. (1)
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- 1953 (8)
- 1950 (7)
- 1952 (6)
- 1949 (5)

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Includes products promoted as aides to improving digestion and losing weight.

Now! Lose Weight Without Dieting!	Now In your own home You may have this famous Gyro-Slim	"I Lost 45 Pounds...Thanks To Your New Reducing Plan," Says Minette Dixon	Don't Be Fat! Lose 20 Pounds Safely
Lose Ugly Fat- Eat What You Like -With Dr. Parrish's New Easier Plan.	Loses 40lbs. Listening to Music	Thousands are raving about this "10-Day Miracle Diet"!	Re-vitalize and Streamline your Figure With The Venus-Adonis Electric Normalizer
How to Lose Weight Without Dieting or Hunger!	An elegant more slender figure...	Is a bustline like this worth 10 minutes a day?	She Gained Pep and Energy with the Ann Delafield Reducing Plan
Here's Notarized Proof That You May Lose Ugly Fat Safely The Kyron Way	Now... Safely Lose Ugly Fat with Kyron Up to 7 lbs. per week Eating Condensed Food Tablets	Now You Can Lose Ugly Fat Doctor's New, Harmless, Easier Way	Don't Be Fat!
New!.. Greatest Reducing Idea In Years...	Now Reduce Safely! Whether Overweight 10 Pounds or 100 Pounds	Slim The Way The Stars Slim	This is probably the most important news ever published for people who are Overweight
"Why Be Fat?" says Mrs. Tyrone Power "I Lose weight Without Any Trouble!"	Lose Weight In 7 Days with the Trims Famous 7-Day Reducing Diet	Lose where it shows! Ann Delafield's Reducing Plan	Chew "Special Formula" Chewing Gum! Reduce Up To 5 lbs. A Week with Doctor's Plan
A Quick Pleasant Way To Reduce	"I Found A lazy Way To Reduce"	How You Can Lose Weight -and Eat All You Want!	how would I look in a bathing suit?
New Way to Reduce	Keep your trim waistline with the popular Knox weight-watcher's drink!	Keep Slim and Trim	Mona Freeman Tells How to Lose Ugly Fat This Easy, Pleasant Way!

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