Circular--confidential : Dear Sir: --The business for which we desire Agents in every part of the Union, is to manufacture and sell--1st. The famous manifold writer; or magic copying paper. ... 2nd. The celebrated chemical compound. ... 3rd. Dr. Williams's celebrated three minute salve. ...The above are all recipes of real utility .... We will also send by mail, post paid, to every agent, a beautiful volume, comprising the variously advertised "Chances to make money," for which $1.00 each has been charged, viz ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

H.B. Carter & Co.

Contributor:

Frothingham, Edward Gilman, 1811-1876, printer.

Miscellaneous Print Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

H.B. Carter & Co.

Patent medicines.

Commercial agents--United States.

Commercial agents.

Medicine, Popular.

Nonprescription Drugs.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Nonprescription Drugs.

Genre:

Advertisements -- United States -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

1 sheet ([1] page) ; 40 cm

Place of Publication:

Haverhill, Mass : E.G. Frothingham, printer, [between 1855 and 1857]

Notes:

Broadside printed in blue and black in a variety of display types within decorated framed border.

Advertising circular seeking agents to sell novelties, compounds, medical remedies and patent medicines for which the agent will recieve "a beautiful volume, comprising the variously advertised 'chances to make money'" (likely a copy of : Arts, money making recipes and discoveries (Haverhill, Mass : E.G. Frothingham).

Date of printing supplied from activity dates of printer and based on dates of the the bonus volume "Arts, money making recipes and discoveries" was issued.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Garrett Scott, Bookseller.

OCLC:

982301547