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This black and white photograph shows a couple standing beside a J.R. Watkins Medical wagon with sampling cases near Eureka, Kansas. The medical company, founded in 1868 by Joseph Ray Watkins from Plainview, Minnesota, sold medical liniments and salves from the back of a horse drawn wagon. The company may have sold supplies for animals as well as humans because a bucket in the front of the photograph is labeled "stock tonic" and the wagon has "stock and poultry tonic" on it.
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
Item Number: 226376
Call Number: FK2.G7 E.722 Wat *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226376
Business and Industry - Health care - Medical suppliers
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Sales
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Eureka
Places - Counties - Greenwood
Transportation - Non-motorized - Wagons
Type of Material - Photographs
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