These kiddos make me smile. I imagine them playing pretend, newspaper hats in place, the two older kids allowing little sister and her dolly to play along.
This card has some scratches, but that just adds to the authenticity! This image was called “Keep to the Right” and was used as the cover of a calendar to advertise Scott’s Emulsion in 1893.
I had to look up what that was. (Just had to!) The National Museum of American History has images of the packaging.
This card has some scratches, but that just adds to the authenticity! This image was called “Keep to the Right” and was used as the cover of a calendar to advertise Scott’s Emulsion in 1893.
I had to look up what that was. (Just had to!) The National Museum of American History has images of the packaging.
It was a tonic with an active ingredient of cod liver oil. (Yum?) It was intended for adults and also could be “given to children to help build resistance to rickets and to aid in growth of bone structure and development of teeth”.
This one was found at the National Library of Medicine.
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