Records. Packer's Charm-Pahl, Frederick Peter (inclusive), 1914-1975.

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Records. Packer's Charm-Pahl, Frederick Peter (inclusive), 1914-1975.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials regarding Packer's Charm, apparently a cosmetic, and other products of the Packer Manufacturing Co., 1925-1944; Packers Product Company, which promoted Orchis Extract, an alleged "male weakness" cure, 1914-1924; Page Foundation (for Biochemical Research), a diet-cure institution operated by Melvin E. Page, a Florida dentist, 1958-1975; and Frederick P. Pahl, a Chicago optometrist guilty of misleading advertising, 1931.

7 folders.

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