Card, Trade

From Windsor Historical Society

1881 – 1890 (Earliest/Latest dates)

Advertising trade card for Keller's Sure Cure for Diptheria and Croup manufactured by Joseph Keller in New York City, patented 1881. The card is printed in pink, blue, and black and shows a young girl with her hair pulled tightly back, wearing a dress with lace collar, cuffs, and petticoat, and ribbon trim in band on the skirt and waist. She is sitting in a rustic chair constructed of bent twigs and is holding a black bottle. Verso reads "Keller's Sure Cure for Diptheria and Croup does away with all swabbing and gargling of t he throat an gives instant relief..."

Accession/ID Number 1986.075.900.627