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Vintage Robert Shoemaker, Jr. Ad (ca. 1892): A vintage Rober Shoemaker Jr. Tablet Machine Ad from The Druggists Circular and Chemical Gazette



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A Tablet Machine At Last

...I have now produced a machine which will measure and compress with absolute accuracy and uniformity. In strength, compactness, mechanical construction, efficiency and beauty of design, it is unequalled. All parts are built strictly to guage and strictly interchangeable.

Robert Shoemaker, Jr. 3735-3739 Filbert Street, Philadelphia...


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Promotional trading cards of all types were popular during the Victorian era (soap, tonics, sewing machines, shirts, hats, etc.), and patent medicines were no exception. People would collect and trade these trading cards. Manufactures of patent medicines would design and print these cards, then provide them as promotional giveaways to the drug stores that carried their patent medicines. Many cards have survived and the artwork in many cases is magnificent. 



As a complimentary service, RXinsider provides FREE, high-resolution downloads of many vintage pharmacy ads and imagery. Simply complete the form on the following webpage, and you will be presented with a download button to download the files for printing and framing in a .zip file.

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