[Rarebooks] FS: Odd Photographic Patent Cure Trade Card with Puppies

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

Odd Photographic Trade Card for Dr. Grosvenor’s Bellcapsic Plaster  
with Puppies.

Absolutely nothing about this card is normal- I suppose some cute  
puppies is a good way to get your attention if the subject is  
something as dry as bellcapsic plasters, but using an actual photo  
card seems like the long way round, and as long as you’re going to  
that trouble, why pencil in the text? The text is penciled on the  
negative, not the card itself. Dr. Grosvenor was plastering his  
bellcapsics in Boston around 1900. The Boston Public Library has an  
example of this card in their collection which has text on the back  
offering to send a larger copy of the image, and Historic New England  
has an example where the good doctor used the same image on a more  
traditional chromolithographed card.

Card. 4”x2.75”. Some soil and light wear.  $40

A Picture ->
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