Records. Ehrhart and Karl-Eldercare (inclusive), 1907-1965.

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Records. Ehrhart and Karl-Eldercare (inclusive), 1907-1965.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Ehrhart and Karl, a homeopathic drug store, 1917-1960; Eisner and Mendelson, a firm selling mineral water and salts from Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, 1907-1938; Eksip, a patent medicine for diabetes put out by Matthew Richartz, 1921-1958; and Eldercare, a national health insurance plan for the elderly put forth by the AMA and its congressional allies as an alternative to Medicare, 1965.

5 folders.

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