The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn, Massachusetts produced this trade card advertising Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound during the late 19th century. Trade cards were a popular advertising device in the late 19th century, featuring a colorful illustration on one side with persuasive advertising copy on the other. This card features an image of two cabins in a snowy landscape over a full moon. Lydia Pinkham advertised her vegetable compound as a “positive cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population.”
