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Set of three posters for pharmacy windows titled "The United States Pharmacopeia" printed in 1958. These "ethical displays" were designed and written by Frank Pinchak, a pharmacist from Paterson, New Jersey. Published by his company Professional…

Set of three posters for pharmacy windows titled "Search and Research" printed in 1960. These "ethical displays" were designed and written by Frank Pinchak, a pharmacist from Paterson, New Jersey. Published by his company Professional Advancement…

Set of three posters for pharmacy windows titled "Steps to the Pharmacy Profession" printed in 1962. These "ethical displays" were designed and written by Frank Pinchak, a pharmacist from Paterson, New Jersey. Published by his company Professional…

Set of three posters for pharmacy windows titled "Indian Gift" printed in 1955. These "ethical displays" were designed and written by Frank Pinchak, a pharmacist from Paterson, New Jersey. Published by his company Professional Advancement Plan,…

Page from the 1934 Indian Herb Gardens Almanac with a "personal message to all." The message reads in part, "This is due to the fact that in treatment we are not so far advanced. And the reason we are not so far advanced is because right now we…

Page from the 1934 Indian Herb Gardens Almanac featuring a letter to customers. The letter states in part, "The use of herbs, roots, etc., for medicinal purposes reaches back to the times even when man was still in the savage state." The letterhead…

4 fluid oz. bottle labeled "Lloyd's Echinacea," c. 1950. The label lists it as being "from the laboratories of Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists Inc." in "Cincinnati, Ohio."

Two-page spread from the 1933 Herbalist Almanac featuring illustrations of various medicinal plants, including juniper, kuemmel, larkspur, leverwood, marygold, master of the woods, lance leaf plantain, lavender, lobelia, lungwort, mezereon, and…

The Ladies Birthday Almanac 1900 advertisement for McElree's Wine of Cardui for Woman's Relief, which claims to be "the most astonishing tonic for women known to medical science." The ad depicts an image of a stereotypical Native American woman…

Plate 120 of scullcap from American medicinal plants, an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homeopathic remedies: their history, preparation, chemistry, and physiological effects, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1887).

Plate 11 of black cohosh from American medicinal plants, an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homeopathic remedies: their history, preparation, chemistry, and physiological effects, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh…

Plate 87 of mugwort from American medicinal plants, an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homeopathic remedies: their history, preparation, chemistry, and physiological effects, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1887).

Plate 58 of witch hazel from American medicinal plants, an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homeopathic remedies: their history, preparation, chemistry, and physiological effects, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh…

Plate 9 of hydrastis from American medicinal plants, an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homeopathic remedies: their history, preparation, chemistry, and physiological effects, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1887).

Plate 100 of bearberry from American medicinal plants, an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homeopathic remedies: their history, preparation, chemistry, and physiological effects, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1887).

Page from the 1933 Herbalist Almanac claiming that an "old document tells Indian Medicine herbs." The page features a stereotypical image of Native Americans around a fire sharing a pipe.

Cover of the 1934 Indian Herb Gardens Calendar. The cover depicts a stereotypical image of a Native American family greeting a family of white American settlers outside of a log cabin. The Native American man holds a pipe in one hand and plants in…

The Ladies Birthday Almanac 1900 cover advertising Thedford's Black Draught and Wine of Cardui. The cover depicts a stereotypical image of a Native American woman showing a white woman how to use native medicines near decorative scrolls that read,…

Package of Scullcap Leaves (Acutellaria) from Murray & NIckell, c. 1895, and a tin of scullcap leaves from a c. 1895 Parke, Davis and Co. Materia Medica case.

One-fourth pint bottle labelled "Fluid Extract No. 395 Sarsaparilla U.S.P.," c. 1945, from Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana.