The Train of Tomorrow; Eddie Hill Aircheck Lydia Pinkham
date: label: date made
content: 1848
label: date made
content: 1948
name: label: Associated Name
content: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
notes: label: Description
content: Radio transcription disc advertising the promotional demonstrator train "The Train of Tomorrow" and Lydia E. Pinkham health products.
label: Description
content: The Train of Tomorrow was a train built by General Motors and Pullman-Standard that toured the United States in the late 1940s.
label: Description
content: Pinkham produced a patent medicine containing alcohol and herbs intended to treat ailments arising from menstruation and menopause. Despite having no proven medical efficiency, the product was met with enormous commercial success, likely due to the company’s aggressive, modern and often-fraudulent advertising campaigns.
label: Description
content: Radio transcription discs are phonograph records made for radio broadcasting.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: subject association
content: Music
label: subject association
content: Music
label: Subject
content: Patent Medicine
label: Subject
content: Radio broadcasts
label: Subject
content: Radio
label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Advertising
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Radcliffe College, Schlesinger Library (through Eva Moseley)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0211.16
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0211.000016
label: accession number
content: 1988.0211
label: catalog number
content: 1988.211.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Disc, Radio Transaction
label: Object Name
content: sound recoring
label: Object Name
content: sound recodring
label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 16 in; x 40.64 cm