Records. Hanrovia Chemical and Manufacturing Company-Harrington, J.W., and Company (inclusive), 1913-1961.

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Records. Hanrovia Chemical and Manufacturing Company-Harrington, J.W., and Company (inclusive), 1913-1961.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and legal, promotional and supplementary materials on Hanrovia Chemical and Manufacturing Company, maker of a therapeutic lamp for treatment of tuberculosis and rickets, 1913-1944; Prof. J. Randolph Harrell, maker of a patent medicine for rheumatism, 1927-1961; HARPER'S WEEKLY, a periodical which frequently carried articles attacking quackery, especially in patent medicines, 1913-1929; and J.W. Harrington and Company, makers of a patent medicine cure-all, 1915-1916.

4 folders.

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