"For Sale By All Druggists": A Historical and Archaeological Look at Healthcare and Consumerism in Lincoln's Springfield
Author(s): Emma Verstraete
Year: 2018
Summary
Decades of archaeological investigation of the Lincoln Home Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois reveal a rich data set that provides a diverse look into the community. Archival papers of one most successful pharmacies in the town provide detailed correspondence, purchase orders, and business information from approximately 1844-1860. Examination of available products and consumer purchasing patterns provide insight into how pharmacies and communities kept pace with national and global trends in medicine and advertising. The combination of archaeological artifacts and archival data form a compelling landscape of a post-war community that consumed goods from across the country during the rise of America’s Gilded Age.
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"For Sale By All Druggists": A Historical and Archaeological Look at Healthcare and Consumerism in Lincoln's Springfield. Emma Verstraete. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441633)
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Keywords
General
consumer practices
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data mining
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Medicine
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1860-1900
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 951