Patent medicines. Selection of some of the patent medicines sold by Alfred Barns Seelye (1870-1948) from a factory and laboratory next to his home in Abilene,Kansas,USA. The company Seelye founded in the 1890s made him wealthy. It became one of the leading patent medicine companies in the American Midwest until its decline in the 1920s. The products,sold door-to-door or through the mail,were advertised in his 'Health Guide and Cook Book' (right). The factory and cars and wagons of the salesmen are shown on the cover. Patent medicines refers to the selling and advertising of exotic remedies that were dangerous or did not work as advertised | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / CAROL M. HIGHSMITH ARCHIVE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS |
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