The Medicine Show, 1850-1920 by https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj Planning en-us 2019-02-26 18:13:55 UTC 2026-02-21 06:16:23 UTC hello@padlet.com List of Medicines dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335669769 Kickapoo Indian Oil, Kickapoo Buffalo Salve, Kickapoo Indian Cough Cure, Kickapoo Indian Worm Killer, Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, Wizard Oil; Red Seal Sarsaparilla, Herbs of Joy, Ka-Ton-Ka; Dr. Seelye's Liquid Catarrh Remedy ]]> 2019-02-26 22:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335669769 Names of shows/pharma peddlers dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335669933 John Healy and Charles Bigelow; Fitzgibbon’s Medicine Show;
Hi Cooper’s Medicine Show
]]> 2019-02-26 22:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335669933 List of Companies dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335670151 The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company; Hamlin Company of Chicago; Oregon Indian Medicine Company]]> 2019-02-26 22:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335670151 McNamara, Brooks. The Medicine Show dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335670318 2019-02-26 22:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335670318 Archives dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335670960 Theatre Collection, New York Public Library; New-York Historical Society; Bella C. Landauer Collection at New York Historical Society; Townsend Walsh Collection, Research Library of the Performing Arts, LincolnCenter; University of Oklahoma Library; and the collection of Mr. William Helfand at New York Academy of Medicine (see Medicine Show scrapbook); Harvard Theatre Collection; New Haven Colony Historical Society; Ars Medica Collection; US National Library of Medicine]]> 2019-02-26 22:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335670960 The Show dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335671641 Indian war dances, ventriloquism, songs in negro dialect, comic songs, plays, vaudeville, musical comedy, minstrels, magic, burlesque, dog and circuses, Punch and Judy shows, pantomime, menageries, bands, pie-eating tests, early motion pictures, early blues singers]]> 2019-02-26 22:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335671641 Gibson, Arrel M. "Medicine Show," American West 4 (1967), 76. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335671829 2019-02-26 22:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335671829 Wilson, Harry Leon Professor How Could You! (novel about medicine show?) dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335672080 2019-02-26 22:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335672080 Songsters dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335672930 Hamlin's Wizard Oil New Book of Songs; The Book of Songs as Sung By Wizard Oil Concert Troupes; 1898 Hamlin's Wizard Oil Song Book; Chicago Booklet Antique Medical Remedies]]> 2019-02-26 22:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335672930 Music and Patent Medicine: Constructing and Performing Ideal Bodies in the American Medicine Show dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335673725 2019-02-26 22:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335673725 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674052 2019-02-26 22:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674052 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674131 2019-02-26 22:30:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674131 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674205 2019-02-26 22:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674205 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674293 2019-02-26 22:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674293 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674344 2019-02-26 22:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674344 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674480 2019-02-26 22:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674480 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674535 2019-02-26 22:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674535 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674592 2019-02-26 22:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674592 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674659 2019-02-26 22:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674659 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674779 2019-02-26 22:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335674779 Ad, Sistersville Daily Oil Review., July 11, 1904, p. 4, Image 4 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335677143 2019-02-26 22:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335677143 Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335678123 2019-02-26 22:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335678123 Hamlin's Wizard Oil Songbook dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335680418 2019-02-26 22:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335680418 An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335680879 2019-02-26 22:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335680879 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335681023 2019-02-26 23:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335681023 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335681417 2019-02-26 23:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335681417 Ad, Sistersville Daily Oil Review, June 11, 1904, p. 6; Image 6 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335683111 2019-02-26 23:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335683111 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335685661 2019-02-26 23:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335685661 Levy, Beth. Frontier Figures dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335686090 2019-02-26 23:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335686090 Dr. W. H. Kelley, 23 December 1914, medicine show scrapbook, William Helfand Collection dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335727956 2019-02-27 03:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335727956 Medicine Show clippings dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728049 2019-02-27 03:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728049 Kasper's Jamaican Songbook dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728315 2019-02-27 03:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728315 Performers in Kickapoo Show dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728432 Dove Wing
Thunder Cloud
Ma-Chu-Ta-Ga
Poor Fox
Antelope Mowray 
Clear Water Floatin]]> 2019-02-27 03:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728432 Holbrook, Stewart H.The Golden Age of Quackery (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1959) dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728530 2019-02-27 03:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728530 Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728571 2019-02-27 03:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728571 Freeman, Graydon Laverne. The Medicine Showman. Watkins Glen, New York: Century House, 1957. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728633 2019-02-27 03:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728633 Sappington, Joe. "The Passing of the Medicine Show." Frontier Times, February 1930. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728671 2019-02-27 03:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728671 McNamara, Brooks. “The Indian Medicine Show.” Educational Theatre Journal 23, no. 4 (December 1971): 431-445 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728803 2019-02-27 03:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335728803 Yuill, Tom. Ephemera of the American Medicine Show. Medicine Show. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729156 2019-02-27 03:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729156 Commercial Indians: Authenticity, Nature, and Industrial Capitalism in Advertising at the Turn of the Twentieth century dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729288 2019-02-27 03:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729288 Powler, Gene. Mystic Healers & Medicine Shows: Blazing Trails to Wellness in the Old West and Beyond dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729324 2019-02-27 03:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729324 McNamara, Brooks. The Medicine Show Log: Reconstructing a Traditional American Entertainment dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729393 2019-02-27 03:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729393 McNamara, Brooks. Step Right Up dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729410 2019-02-27 03:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729410 Anderson, Ann. Snake oil, Hustlers and Hambones: the American Medicine Show. McFarland & Company (2000) dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729522 2019-02-27 03:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729522 Strasser, Susan. "Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture." In Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States, ed. Marguerite S. Shaffer.University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729590 2019-02-27 03:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729590 GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU Music of the Medicine Shows 1926 - 1937 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729742 2019-02-27 03:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729742 Kickapoo Indian Sagwa Ad, The Worthington advance., July 5, 1894, Image 8 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729862 2019-02-27 03:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335729862 Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company at the Acme Opera House, Aberdeen Herald, June 1, 1893, Image 4. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335732527 2019-02-27 03:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335732527 Barbarian Virtues in a Bottle: Patent Indian Medicines and the Commodification of Primitivism in the United States, 1870–1900 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335732712 2019-02-27 03:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/335732712 "Indian" Medicine Books dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336011454 The Indian Doctor's Dispensatory, The Indian Guide to Health, The North American Indian Doctor, or Nature's Method of Curing and Preventing Disease According to the Indians]]> 2019-02-27 17:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336011454 Kickapoo Publications dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336011762 The Indian Illustrated Magazine, Life and Scenes Among the Kickapoo Indians, The Kickapoo Indian Dream Book (Bella C. Laudner collection)]]> 2019-02-27 17:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336011762 Other sources to find dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336012492 Medicine as practiced in early America, representation of Native Americans in advertising; vaudeville; books on 19th century entertainment; minstrel show; vaudeville performers and advertising campaigns]]> 2019-02-27 17:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336012492 Other sources to find dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336013108 medical journals, ladies magazines, entertainment trade magazines, field recordings]]> 2019-02-27 17:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336013108 Sandler, Matt. "Music Physicianers: Blues Lyric Form and the Patent Medicine Show." Journal of American Studies 50, no. 1 (February 2016): 125-142 dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336037304 2019-02-27 17:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336037304 Young, James Harvey. The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336041530 2019-02-27 17:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336041530 James Harvey Young, “Folk into Fake,” Western Folklore, 44, no. 3 (July 1985), 225-39. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336042140 2019-02-27 17:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336042140 Banks, Ann. First-Person America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336042996 2019-02-27 17:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336042996 Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336043513 2019-02-27 17:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336043513 Lhamon , W. T. Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336044428 2019-02-27 17:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336044428 Hagstrom Miller, Karl. Segregating Sound dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336046737 2019-02-27 17:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336046737 Bean, Annemarie, James V Hatch, and Brooks McNamara. Inside the Minstrel Mask : Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336106167 2019-02-27 19:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336106167 Hamlin's Wizard Oil dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336109368 Samuel Hays (wholesale western agent, St. Joseph); J.A. Hamlin and bro, 102 Washington Street Chicago; Fuller Finch & Fuller, wholesale agents 24 and 26 Market street  ]]> 2019-02-27 19:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336109368 Chilton Times (Chilton, Wisconsin), June 17, 1865: 3. dana_gorzelany https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336113949 2019-02-27 19:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_gorzelany/7c2oakuijuqj/wish/336113949