Records. Sun and Moon Oil and Ointment-Sun Grain Health Products (inclusive), 1924-1958.

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Records. Sun and Moon Oil and Ointment-Sun Grain Health Products (inclusive), 1924-1958.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Sun and Moon Oil and Ointment, patent medicine cure-alls allegedly containing "vibrations of life from the radioactivity of electricity, magnetism, electrons and atoms," 1924-1939; sunburn remedies, 1934-1971; Sun Diet Health Service, a faddist sanitarium and mail-order urinalysis firm run by William Howard Hay and his associates, 1925-1941; and Sun Grain Health Products, a health food firm, 1958.

6 folders.

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