Outside Start Lydia Pinkham Audition Spots 1-5
name: label: Associated Name
content: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
notes: label: Description
content: Radio transcription disc advertising Lydia E. Pinkham health products. 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
label: See more items in
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: 1988.0211.15
label: maker number
content: 38
label: accession number
content: 1988.0211
label: catalog number
content: 1988.211.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Disc, Radio Transaction
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: 12 in; x 30.48 cm