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Boschees German Syrup August Flower Patent Medicine Trade Card c1882
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Pre-linen · 1882

Boschees German Syrup August Flower Patent Medicine Trade Card c1882

Woodbury, New Jersey / Lancaster, New Hampshire1882Pre-linenFair

An angry mother scolds a half-dressed boy caught swimming in the river in this 1880s chromolithograph trade card advertising two of the era's best-selling patent medicines — Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower, which together claimed four million bottles sold annually.

  • Publisher: G. G. Green, Woodbury, N.J. — local agent: F. A. Colby, M.D., Lancaster, N.H.
  • Status: Unposted
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PC-02287 · G. G. Green, Woodbury, N.J. / F. A. Colby M.D., Lancaster N.H.
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