Records. United Drug Company-U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (inclusive), 1910-1973.

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Records. United Drug Company-U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (inclusive), 1910-1973.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning the United Drug Company, a patent medicine firm, 1916-1946; United Medicine Manufacturers of America, an organization of patent medicine companies, 1921-1959; United Specialists, a group of quacks also known as the German-American Doctors and led by George L. Dickerson, 1910-1920; and the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1973.

5 folders.

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