Records. Who's Who Publications-W.H.Y. (inclusive), 1909-1952.

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Records. Who's Who Publications-W.H.Y. (inclusive), 1909-1952.

Correspondence, articles, clippings, pamphlets, promotional material, packaging samples, and periodicals pertaining to Who's Who Publications, Inc., which promoted a directory entitled WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN MEDICINE, 1924-1946; Whole Grain Wheat, a proprietary preparation of a Chicago company run by C.H. Woodward, 1917-1929; whooping cough "cures," 1909-1921; and W.H.Y., a "concentrated food beverage" promoted under exaggerated health claims by one George M. Bartlett, 1922-1952.

11 folders.

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