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Circular titled “Private Lectures on Perfect Men, Women and Children in Happy Homes Including Gender, Love, Mating, Married Life and Reproduction, or Paternity, Maternity, Infancy and Puberty Together with Male Vigor and Female Health Restored and Their Ailments Self-Cured Etc., as Taught by Phrenology and Natural Science by Prof. O.S. Fowler.” Includes testimonials regarding Mr. P.H. Starr, proprietor of the Novelty Rug Co. of Toledo, Ohio., ca. 1914

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection includes advertising circulars, circular letters, price lists, and brochures, many of which relate to the dry cleaning business; advertisements and letters promoting dry cleaning correspondence courses; ten issues of “Widder’s Practical Dyer” (1920-1921), published by the Widder Dye & Chemical Co., Inc., Brooklyn, New York; letters to Ernst Bader offering jobs and business opportunities in reply to an advertisement he placed in a dry cleaning trade magazine; papers regarding courses in hypnotism, magic, phrenology, and psychology; papers relating to dog shows and dog breeding; papers, relating to the Plymouth Rock Squab Company of Boston, Massachusetts; and family papers.

Dates

  • ca. 1914

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Extent

From the Collection: 0.3 Cubic Feet ( (11 folders; 1 oversize folder))

Language of Materials

English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center Repository

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