Advertising card for Ayer's Cathartic Pills [manuscript], 1883.

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Advertising card for Ayer's Cathartic Pills [manuscript], 1883.

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The card labelled "The country doctor," depicts an African American doctor with a medical case labelled "Dr. Bolus" dispensing Ayer's pills to two children and notes that a larger chromo-lithograph of the scene may be ordered from the company. The verso of the card is stamped "From Roosa & Ratliff, Druggists, Rushville, Ind." and is inscribed "From Grace to Vachel" [Lindsay].

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...

Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.

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