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These images show advertisements for the W. W. Gavitt Medical Company located at 5th and Madison Streets in Topeka, Kansas. The first image is an advertisement for Gavitt's System Regulator, advertised to cure "all blood, stomach, kidney, and liver troubles." The second image is a group of advertisements for three different businesses owned by W. W. Gavitt: a business of investment bankers and brokers, a medical company, and a mercantile company. The W. W. Gavitt Medical Company manufactured "standard and proprietary remedies."
Date: 1902
Item Number: 213991
Call Number: R.730 *15-16
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213991
Business and Industry - Health care - Alternative medicine
Business and Industry - Health care - Medical suppliers
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Bankers
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Pharmacists
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Realtors
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Sales
Business and Industry - Services - Real estate
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s - 1902
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Ad, Magazine
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Type of Material - Printed materials - Advertisements
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