Records. Staats-Schroth Laboratories-Standard Chemical Company (inclusive), 1899-1974.

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Records. Staats-Schroth Laboratories-Standard Chemical Company (inclusive), 1899-1974.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Staats-Schroth Laboratories, a patent medicine firm run by a fake doctor, 1909-1941; Stackhouse Home Physician and Druggist Company, makers of a home medicine kit, 1914; Staminex, Inc., makers of a health food, 1974; and Standard Chemical Company, a patent medicine and physician supply firm, 1899-1935.

4 folders.

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