Games for Children.

Lynn, Massachusetts: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, [n.d., ca. 1920s] A collection of testimonials from Pinkham's customers, mixed with instructions for various children's games. A brief introduction informs readers, "We are better equipped to play the Game of Life when we are physically fit. Ill-health is always a handicap. For over fifty years Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines have been helping thousands of people to get well and to keep well." Games include "Fruit Game," "Call Ball," and "Sea Urchin Tag." . Color pictorial wrappers. . Small, thin . Light wear and soiling. Light chipping / tearing to wrappers. Bottom free corner front wrapper gone. Paper is toned but very clean and readable. Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819 – 1883) was an inventor and patent medicine distributor made famous by creating and selling Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one of the most popular patent medicines of the late nineteenth century. The remedy utilized five herbal ingredients traditionally used to treat menstrual issues, plus alcohol. She managed a large business to distribute the compound along with other remedies and publications like Lydia E. Pinkham's Private Text Book, a sexual health manual for women. The tonic was so popular that it was eventually memorialized in a drinking song known as "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham" and, later, "Lily the Pink." Pinkham was also a lifelong supporter of abolition and women's rights. She had grown up in a family of abolitionists in Lynn, Massachusetts who counted Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison among their friends.