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Trade cards for Ayer's cathartic pills, 1883

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This image employs racist stereotypes. This trade card promotes Ayer's cathartic pills manufactured by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. Labeled "The country doctor," the image depicts a man with an infant girl on his lap holding a tin of the pills. A boy kneels beside the man, with a suitcase of Ayer's products open next to him.
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Historic New England

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Digital Commonwealth

Keywords

  1. Advertising
  2. African Americans
  3. Business (Commercial Function)
  4. Discrimination
  5. Drugs
  6. Patent Medicines
  7. People In Health And Medicine
  8. Pharmacists
  9. Pills
  10. Racial Discrimination

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