Raynors HCA 2019-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/30/2019
Broadside, 5-1/2” x 11-1/2”, “AGAIN TO-NIGHT” continues with “The Indians in Ghost Dance,” and “Trick & fancy Shooting”, and more. The “show” was a live infomercial to sell the cure-all Kickapoo medicine water. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company boosted sales with traveling medicine shows. Part carnival, part sales pitch, they featured Indian ‘agents’ or ‘professors’ making outlandish claims for quack cure-alls in between Indian acts. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company’s medicine shows were the biggest and most successful in the United States. They were the brainchild of a New Haven peddler and a bogus Texas frontiersman who capitalized on the American belief that Indians had a deep knowledge of natural medicine. nd, c1900
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