Records. Colusa Products Company-Commerce Research Group (inclusive), 1909-1956.

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Records. Colusa Products Company-Commerce Research Group (inclusive), 1909-1956.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and legal, promotional and supplementary materials concerning Colusa Products Company, a patent medicine firm specializing in "cures" for skin diseases, 1940-1956; Combs Chemical Company, a patent medicine firm with "cures" for drug addiction, sexual problems and a variety of other ailments, 1909-1940; "Commerce, Commissions, and Stocks" (material on investments for doctors), 1909-1946; and Commerce Research Group, a research firm doing a survey on the availability of senior citizen housing, 1954-1955.

6 folders.

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