Records. Frontier Asthma Company-Fruit Drinks (inclusive), 1906-1958.

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Records. Frontier Asthma Company-Fruit Drinks (inclusive), 1906-1958.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Frontier Asthma Company, maker of a patent medicine for asthma and hay fever, 1906-1958; Frostig Program, a method of visual perceptual training, 1969; fruit (file concerns a scheme by the California Fruit Growers Exchange to persuade doctors to prescribe fruit to "correct" faulty diets), 1927-1940; and fruit drinks, also sold as nostrums, 1916-1940.

6 folders.

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