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Snake Oil Almanacs: Patent Medicine Advertising in the 19th Century
This post was written by cataloger Catherine Falzone. The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library of the New-York Historical Society has a number of almanacs that were printed as advertisements by patent medicine companies. Most people in the nineteenth century bought an almanac every year and considered them trustworthy sources of information. Unscrupulous patent medicine manufacturers capitalized [...]
Laudanum: A Dose of the Nineteenth Century
Coroner’s report for the suicide of Richard D. Hamilton, 18 August, 1822. BV New York City Coroner’s Reports, MS 1957 A great primary source often elicits a visceral sense of what it meant to live in the moment of the document’s creation. It’s difficult not to have this reaction when reading through two manuscript volumes [...]
