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Printed ephemera - History

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17 works

    • Books

    Reinventing the wheel / Jessica Helfand.

    | Jessica Helfand | Date: [2002]
    • Books

    Pentothol postcards / by David Lai MD.

    | Lai, David, MD. | Date: [2005]
    • Ephemera

    Shampoo : advertising from the 19th and 20th centuries : October 2-December 21, 2001 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the Wellcome Library / Stephen Lowther.

    | Lowther, Stephen, 1955- | Date: 2001
    • Ephemera

    Healthy eating : dietary health promotion from the 19th century to the 21st : a small exhibition of pamphlets and ephemera in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the Wellcome Library / Stephen Lowther.

    | Lowther, Stephen, 1955- | Date: 2001
    • Books

    Quack, quack, quack : the sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, ephemera & books : an exhibition on the frequently excessive & flamboyant seller of nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other graphic arts over the last five centuries / by William H. Helfand.

    | William H. Helfand | Date: 2002
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Advertising - History
19th-20th centuries
Drug Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparations

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