1847 – Broadside certificate attesting that Marton Hawes of Westbrook, Maine was an authorized sales agent for “Dr. Sear’s Universal Sanguinarian or Blood Root Pills”
East Thomaston, [Maine,]: 1847. Unbound. This “Certificate of Agency” promoting Dr. J. B. Sears’s Blood Root Pills measures 7.75” x 9.75”. It was printed by R. B. Caldwell and features an illustration of a Native American chief or medicine man supervising the harvesting of Sanguinaria canadensis, commonly known as bloodroot..... More
