Pamphlets

Famous Women of History, pamphlet advertising products from “Lydia Pinkham, the Ladyʼs Friend,” on menstruation and other female health concerns. Includes testimonials with product ads including inside cover, from Mrs. Conrad C. Vantassel, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin with her photograph and biographies including Cleopatra, Isabella of Castile, Florence Nightingale and Martha Washington with sketches throughout. White paper with black print, 32 pages. 7” x 4-1/2.” View Full Text  

Manʼs Sex Life, Hereward Carrington, cover in hazy blue and pink shows a naked woman in an erotic pose. Chapters include, “Lost Manhood, Sex Life in the Home, How Woman is Aroused, Frequency of Sex, and Jealousy in Women.” Copyright 1930, 504 W. 111th Street, New York, Price $1.00, 16 pages.8-1/2 x 6.” DATED: 1930 View Full Text

Sex Facts for Women, Richard J. Lambert, Ph. G., M.D., “The material contained in this booklet was selected from the authorʼs book, Sex and Marriage which gives a complete discussion of sexual knowledge.” Book includes Anatomy and Physiology of the Female Generative Organs, Puberty and Menstruation, Physiology of Reproduction and Pregnancy with charts, diagrams, and drawings. Booklet has a yellow cover with black printing and a drawing of a woman seated in her doctorʼs office being giving a prescription. Padell Book Company, 830 Broadway, New York City, Franklin Publishing Company 1936, 32 pages. DATED: 1936. Read Full Text

Social Diseases, A National Menace, includes: “Source and Carriers of Venereal, Gonorrhea and Syphilis,” brown cover w/black print, 12 pages. View Full Text

Cardui Tonic Booklet The Ladies Birthday Almanac, Thedfordʼs Black Draught 1929 Cardui Tonic, 33 page advertising and informational booklet, tan with black writing advertising “Thedfordʼs Black-Draught” and “Cardui a Tonic, 1929,” company logo in the center with a sketch of a knelling Native American woman pointing at the leaves of a plant as a pioneer woman stands observing. Booklet includes product testimonials, each with a sketch of the woman writing and the state she lives in. Every month has a page with a detailed weather forecast. Bottom of cover page says, “Our Medicines are the Product of Practical Experience, Scientific Investigation and Pharmaceutical Skill.” The back page says “When Weak Take Cardui, in use over 50 years.” Herema Drugstore, Indianola, Iowa, Drugs and Medicines, Prescriptions. In 1880, a menstrual relief product called Dr. McELREE'S Wine of Cardui was introduced. Cardui was composed chiefly of 51.9% potassium carbonate, 16% salt, and 20.3% alcohol, the advertising suggesting that the product was herbal. DATED: 1929. Read Full Text

White Slave Trade Pamphlets, The Dangers of a Large City or The System of the Underworld, Exposing the White Slave Traffic. Cover has ink drawing of a group of tough looking men, a couple of well dressed women and a young woman partially clad seated with her head in her hands, in the center of the background stands a well dressed man with a gavel. Preface “Thousands of young, innocent girls are trapped each year and sold like cattle to the highest bidder, and by promises of good positions, cajolery, threats, fake marriages, coercion, persuasion...lured into a life of shame,” about white slavery “As now practiced in American, including detailed descriptions of the customs and manners of the white women slaves and ...” 31 page 7-1/2 x 5-1/4.” Tan cover with dark blue sketch and print, “Price 50 cents, all Rights Reserved.” DATED: 1941. Read Full Text