Pharmacy
Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection: The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution) – Each entry includes a photo of the object, the product’s name, marker’s name, place of manufacture, and a date range. Ingredients and therapeutic claims are included when indicated on the product packaging
Evanion Catalogue of Victorian Ephemera: British Library - contains approximately 5,000 items, advertisements, trade cards and catalogues, novelties, envelopes and even paper bags. Subjects include clothing, food and drink, patent medicines, kitchen equipment and domestic appliances, and a wide range of products and services.
Medicine and Madison Avenue: Duke University Libraries Digital Collections - Over 600 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920
Patent Medicine Trade Cards: UCLA Library Digital Collections – 247 patent medicine trade cards from roughly 1870 to 1906
The William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards: New York Academy of Medicine – approximately 300 pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the US and France between 1875 and 1895
Industry Documents Library (UC San Francisco) Includes: Drug Collections