Collection Highlights
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.065.815.7
Medium:
Stereograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Medicine
Object Number:
2002.1.792
Date:
1908-1940
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
3 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description:
This small printed evelope has a color cartoon of hobos walking on railroad tracks and reads on the front "4 Plasters Price 15 c./ Blue-Jay/ Corn Plasters/ make hard roads easy/ B&B/ They stop the pain and / Remove the corn/ Prepared by Bauer & Black, Chicago, U.S.A.". On the back is the patent date "Aug. 4th 1908" and instructions.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
