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Advertisement selling a type of cream that is supposedly good for the nerves. Claims that using the cream will invigorate the nerves and improve overall health.

This is an advertisement for the oldest tricycle and largest cycle manufacturers in the world. They can help you fit it, and there have show rooms of the tricycles. You can find any type of tricycle and cycle there, because it is one of the world…

This advertisement is about Nubian Blacking gives a brilliant polish for a week through wet or dry weather. It applied with sponge attached to the cork. It does not injure the leather nor clothing. It also combines all the requirements for Harness in…

This advertisement is about Samuel Brothers respectfully invite application for patterns of their new materials for the Present Season. These are forwarded post-free, and is together with the illustrated price-list, it also containing 250 engravings…

The New Silks and Dresses is advertising the silk is now lower in price than at any period since the French Revolution, 1848. They are doing on sale on the coquette, this is a very pretty jacket that is made in the new Boucle Cloth, trimmed Chantilly…

Advertisement for Anzora, 1922's version of styling gel. This product claims to hold hair "no matter how unruly" in place throughout the day.

This wine is advocated to be healthy for the body and brain with testimonies given by the most credible physicians of that age. It provides remedy for exhaustion, depression, sleeplessness, and debility to give the customer fast access to getting…

This advertisements draws readers in with the illustration of a box with furniture exploding out of it to emphasis the small space can hold more storage of furniture than it appears to be capable of. Furniture is not in the newest condition possible…

A skin product which not only gives soft and smooth skin but also maintains the fairness of white skin in all seasons. It company validates it's product is genuine only when labeled with green, gold, and chocolate. The image displayed is that of a…

At first this product appears to be target for use in homes, particularly bathrooms considering it contains "toilet" in the title. However by the descriptions on the either side of the logo it is actually intended to be used as a beauty product for…

With a rather detailed illustration, this advertisement promotes bicycles made from Raleigh "the most famous man of Queen Elizabeth's Time". Being a celebrity, customer's might be inclined to believe it's quality of being the "best bicycles" around…

An advertisement for French natural mineral water that claims to keep Rheumatism away. The advertisement states that Vichy-Celestins can be obtained at all hotels, clubs, chemists and stores. Pictured is a line drawing of two men and one woman…

The unique feature of this advertisement is that it is a full page advertisement. "For Summer days Drink Ovaltine for Health!' is the only text of the ad. The drawing is of a woman sitting at a table sipping from a china tea cup while glancing…

The text of the advertisement consists of, "What to take for a sick headache. Take a good dose of Carter's Little Liver Pills--2 or 3 for a few nights after. A few doses restore your organs to their proper functions and the headache and the causes…

The advertisement is directed at healthy folk and physical fitness. It claims that a small 'dash' of Eno's Fruit Salt sparkling in a glass of water first thing on rising every morning is the athlete's natural safeguard to health. This ad is…

This small advertisement professes to be the modern palatable form of iron tonic. Devoid of all the usual drawbacks of iron tonics. Iron Jelloids claim to be unequaled for anemia and weakness in men, women and children. There are no graphics, nor…

This interview was recorded during the opening of the Outrageous Hypotheses exhibit at WSU MASC. In it, Mark O'English describes the materials in the exhibit about Samuel Rowbottam's Zetetic flat earch theory and what he finds interesting about it.…

This interview segment was recorded during the opening of the Outrageous Hypotheses exhibit at WSU MASC. The exhibit was based on Being Wrong, the 2013-2014 Common Read. Trevor Bond describes his favorite object in the exhibit, the Nuremberg…

Cover of Flora's Dictionary, a book in which E.W. Fuller wrote his letters to his wife, Mary B. Fuller of St. Martinsville, Louisiana.

Captain E.W. Fuller's signature, on the front free endpaper.

Fuller's introduction to the book and how he acquired it while a patient and prisoner of war in St. James Hospital in New Orleans on the 19th of April 1863.

Fuller opens letter 1 describing to his wife, Mary, how he got captured by the Union upon the explosion of his ship, the Queen of the West, on April 15th, 1863. Fuller also describes what it was like being a patient at a hospital that was formerly…

Fuller continues letter 1 writing about being sick for a week with a fever and describes what he was given at the Custom House by Mrs. Brooks, Presidentess of the Ladies Society for the relief of needy Confederate prisoners of war: a bed, bed…

Fuller completes letter 1 by telling his wife that he believes that Mr. Brooks is actually her Uncle Abijah. Fuller goes on to tell her that if she ever receives the dictionary and never sees him again, she should communicate his thanks to Mr.…

Fuller writes his wife about leaving New Orleans on June 3rd with 49 other Confederate officers and having the Sixth New York Infantry Regiment's Colonel Wilson as their escort. He writes of being treated as a gentleman on board the Steamer Catawba.…

Fuller continues letter 2 talking about being transferred to the Steamer Utica for a day and a night before transferring to the Steamer Maple Leaf. They traveled to Norfolk, VA where they gained 49 more Confederate officers as prisoners and returned…

Fuller continues letter 2 telling his wife, Mary, that the Confederate prisoners indeed had control over the vessel. A group of the Confederates insisted Fuller take charge of the boat, which he did. The prisoners met with the Captain and agreed that…

Fuller concludes letter 2, relating the rest of the incident aboard the Steamer Maple Leaf. The other part of the agreement with Captain Youngblood was that he was to continue on to Fort Delaware, and was not to inform the Federal forces of the…

Fuller begins letter 3 with the results of the incident on board the Maple Leaf between the Confederate prisoners and Captain Youngblood; the Yankee Captain didn't act as agreed, but instead returned to Fortress Monroe. The incident was reported upon…

Fuller continues letter 3 stating that Colonel Ludlow was making inquiries into the cause of the incident, conducting interviews, including one with Fuller. The colonel informed him that he should be one of the first prisoners to be exchanged and if…