Records. Walgreen Company-Wall, Cornelius Walter (inclusive), 1905-1970.

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Records. Walgreen Company-Wall, Cornelius Walter (inclusive), 1905-1970.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Walgreen Company, a drug company and retail pharmacy chain which sometimes sold quackish patent medicines and engaged in other questionable practices, 1931-1966; Charles H. Walker, who promoted a cancer remedy, 1916-1935; Walker Pharmacal Company, a patent medicine firm, 1905-1970; and Dr. Cornelius Walter Wall, a physician whose license was revoked several times for various reasons, 1915-1934.

7 folders.

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