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The little book of safety solutions

Early printed book labels : a catalogue of dated personal labels and gift labels printed in Britain to the year 1760

labels

Labels

'Labels'

Labels for pharmaceutical preparations, cosmetic products and perfumes.

Labels for pharmaceutical preparations and cosmetic products. Not all the labels are for Corbyn's prodcuts. Some blank.

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The Guard book contains product labels and packing for 'TABLOID' brand products, unless stated otherwise. For example 'TABLOID ACID SODIUM SULPHATE'.

The volume has been conserved, items have been removed from the original guard books and remounted in sleeves and ringbinders. This enables researchers to easily read items (front and reverse) without damage to the original. The original order has been retained. Each item has a small pencil number in the corner giving the original page number and clockwise its order on the page (e.g. 4a, 4b, 4c). 
Due to the size of the original guard book it has been split into 2 albums: 
Album 1 = Original Index and pp.1-150; 
Album 2 = pp.151-303.

For ease of use the catalogue description has been split into two. Items have been indexed alphabetically, with page numbers and dates: - 
WF/M/GB/27/2/1 = Product labels indexed alphabetically by name 
WF/M/GB/27/2/2 = Other printed material, such as company stationery, indexed by type.

Notes: pp. 114, 247 & 248 were blank.; p. 39, 1x product label obscured & not catalogued; p. 134 inc. loose note of numbers in pencil; p. 237, 1x set of unidentified labels; p. 257 & 258, 1x loose unidentified item; p. 289 & p. 290, 1x loose page is now identified as p. 289a & 289b; p. 289b & p. 290 inc. a fragment of a price list .
PLEASE NOTE ** Should readers wish to consult items which are folded (such as folded leaflets or pamphlets) they must approach the Poynter Room Supervisor first.

Pharmaceutical Labels

Correspondence relating to labelling requirements of the Ministry of Supply and the Therapeutic Substances Association, including several specimen labels.

Also, "Report of Conference called by the Directorate of Medical Supplies to discuss packaging, labelling, issue and returns of production of penicillin, held at Portland House, Tothill Street, SW1, on Thursday 13th April 1944, at 2.30 pm".

"Penicillin labels"

Contains product labels and packing for Burroughs Wellcome & Co (BW&Co) products, dating from 1883-1888.

As BW&Co was only established in 1880, the labels for the products found here, are those on which the firm established itself. They include: Kepler Malt Extract, Burroughs Beef & Iron Wine and Lanoline Soap.

Packaging and labels in non-English languages show how BW&Co was already branching out into overseas markets.

The Guard Book is indexed at the front of the volume. For details of abbreviations / terms please see series description for Circulars.

The volume has been conserved, items have been removed from the original guard books and remounted in sleeves and ringbinders. This enables researchers to easily read items (front and reverse) without damage to the original. The original order has been retained. Each item has a small pencil number in the corner giving the original page number.

Should readers wish to consult items which are folded (such as folded leaflets or pamphlets) they must approach the Poynter Room Supervisor first.

Items indexed alphabetically by product, with page numbers..

BEEF & IRON WINE, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 28, 35, 36, 37, 41 
BEEF & IRON WINE WITH QUININE, 39, 40 
BW & Co., 44, 45 
BW & Co. LABELS, 31

CHLORATE POTASH, 15 
COD LIVER OIL, 16

DIALYSED IRON, 1

ELIXOIDS, 22, 23, 24, 28 
EUCALYPTIA, 41 
EUCALYPTINE, 34

FELLOWS, 1

HAZELINE, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 31/2, 33, 34, 35, 42

IMITATION LABELS, 36, 38, 40, 41

KEPLER COD LIVER OIL, 21, 30/1

LANOLINE TOILET SOAP, 47

MALT, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 16/19, 29, 30, 32, 33, 38, 40 
MALT & OIL, 2, 3, 17, 20, 29, 30, 36, 37, 40 
MALT WITH BEEF & IRON, 5, 10 
MALT WITH CHEMICAL FOOD, 7, 9, 10 
MALT WITH CITRATE IRON & QUININE, 5, 7, 8 
MALT WITH HOPS, 4, 7 
MALT WITH HYPOPHOSPHITES, 4, 7, 8 
MALT WITH IRON, 7 
MALT WITH OIL & IODIDE OF IRON, 8, 10 
MALT WITH PEPSIN, 5, 9 
MALT WITH PHOSPHORUS, 8, 9 
MARECHAL NIEL ROSE, 20

PINOL, 49

TABLOIDS & TABLETS, 45-6, 47, 48, 50

WYETH, 16

**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SERIES IS NOT FULLY CATALOGUED, ONLY A FEW ITEMS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. RESEARCHERS WITH ENQUIRIES SHOULD CONTACT THE MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT**

Primarily examples of labels for company products, retained in chronological order of production. Labels for product bottles or boxes were printed in-house. This is a comprehensive set of examples which show product names and often give dosages. The labels were then pasted onto the bottles - in the early years by hand rather than machines. This job was carried out by 'girls' (women usually between the ages of 14-18) with an older woman supervising. Women were deemed to be more suited to this precise small scale work. 
The items in the volume consist of printed sheets, where more than one type of product label was printed on the sheet. These were possibly proof sheets for aditing by the Advertising Department with the final sheets being for one product. The labels were pasted into the volumes in chronological order, sometimes with the date indicated. 
Occasionally items appear that are not labels but other BW printed material such as circulars. Where this is the case the catalogue indicates this clearly.

PRINTING CONVENTIONS 
Most labels for 'Tabloid' products appear printed on blue paper. 
Most labels for 'Soloid' products appear on red paper. 
Most labels for poisons appear on green paper. 
Colours used in other labels and items vary widely. 
Sometimes Tabloid products are given a number as well as a name, for example Morphine Sulphate No. 4 and Morphine Sulphate No. 5. These numbers are given in descriptions. Numbers could be used to indicated that there was a difference in strength or concentration between two or more products.

Exhibitors Labels

Bundle of loose labels / product slips / packaging for Coopers products, including: 

Kerol Ointment 
Quibell's Foot Rot Ointment 
Loxon 
Quibell's Lamb Drinks 
Staphosan 
Mastrite and Post-Mastrite 
Heal-Aid 
Manusan 
Handsan 
Coopers Livestock Marker 
Loxon PPW 
Coopers Lambing Lubricant 
Hexettes 
Coopers Warble Fly Powder 
Coopers Winter Worm Remedy (Liquid) 
Coopers Teat Dip 
Pipricide 
Darvisul 
Coopers Poultry Pest Spray 
Coopex Liquid Worm Drench 
Supajet 
Trivetrin 
Coopers Nodular Worm Remedy 
Cooper [sic] Milking Salve 
Supabok Dip 
Kerolik No. 3 
Methyl Bromide Fumigant 
Vit-A Jek 
Calkeen 
Wellcome Tribrissen 
Coopers Gamatox 
Coopers Pessiaries 
Stogotox 
Karakulpelt Detergent 
Coopers Sanitising Hand Soap 
Cooper [sic] Trace Mineral Concentrate 
Cooper [sic] Se Skaapdippoeier (Plastic Wrapper, product for South Africa - Afrikaans) 
Cooper [sic] Milking Salve (plastic wrapper - 2kg and 5kg sizes) 

Includes a 'List of UK Products and License Numbers 1973' (typescript) and a circular letter on 'Chlordip and Mastitis Control'. 

The covering note with this file is from 'Ray W', addressed to 'Mary', on 'Wellcome R&D Information Services (Veterinary)' headed notepaper.
Not all the labels are in English.

'Coopers Labels'

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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes labels for: E.E. Dickinson & Co.'s Witch Hazel and related distributors, Farrell's Drug Store (Div. of Prairie Pharmacy, Inc. : Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin), Fleet Drug (Cleveland Ohio), Flemons & Marchant (Gingerette Essence), William Fowke & Son (Market Square, Stafford), Fowke & Aston (Market Square, Stafford), Kälberdurchfall-Tropfen (Eckart & Zimmermann, Nonnenhorn am Bodensee), Fullerton Drug Co. (Fullerton, North Dakota : linseed oil).

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

List of Morris Little & Son Ltd products with product labels and literature, not all of which are in English. List of products has been endorsed 'Purchase Tax 1940'. Most literature takes the form of labels. Some of the labels pre-date 1940 but it is difficult to date them for certain.

Labels/literature included for:

Little's Fluid
Little's Weedkiller
Little's Fly Oil
Little's Sheep Marking Liquid
Little's Phenoid Disinfectant
Little's Hyphenoid Farm Disinfectant
Little's Poisonous Paste Dip
Little's Fly Paste Dip
Little's Derris Paste Dip
Little's Northern Fluid Sheep Dip
McMullan's Fluid Sheep Dip
Little's Improved Fluid Dip
Fison's Fluid (poster sized)
Little's Bloom Fluid Dip

Products: labels / instructions

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes labels for: T. Bentley (High Steet, Uttoxeter), A.T. Best (36 Brown Street, Bryanston Square, London), Birds (Coventry), Black Mountain Drug Co. (the Rexall Store, North Carolina), Bleuze (Paris), Thomas & Henry Blunt (Shrewsbury), A.J. Caley (Windsor), Albert J. Caley (Norwich), Caley & Corder (London Street, Norwich), Caley & Knights (Norwich), Carbolic tooth powder, Chemical Food, Cheseborough Co.'s Pure "Vaseline", "Downs" Face powder, "Downs" paper handkerchief, Effervescent universal saline, Sanitary Fluid, Skin and blood mixture, Wynter's pulmonic elixir, Milk of sulphur (L. Cameron, Broad Street, Seaford), Victor Cartwright (Uttoxeter), Cary Cocks & Roper (Man of Ross House, Ross).

Box file containing labels issued by Banbury & Co. (chemists and pharmacists) of 186 Lavender Hill, London in acid free sleeves. Includes: Citrate of iron and quinine, Citrate of magnesia, Cod liver oil, Collas's pectoral cough balsam, Compound rhubarb pills, Compound syrup of hypophosphites, Compressed tablets of soda mint, Creasote, Diarrhoea mixture, Dr. Bayley's asthma cure, Dr. Quain's vegetable stomach & liver pills, Eucalyptus oil, Flowers of sulphur, Glycerine & borax, Glycerine & rose water, Hyposulphite of soda, Ipecacuanha wine, Little liver pills, Liver pills, Milk of sulphur, Oil of cloves, Oil of eucalyptus, the Ointment, Opodeldoc, Powdered pumice, Precipitate powder (poison).

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes labels for: Alfred M. Usher and John F. Usher (26 Otley Road, Guiseley) including paregoric, female pills', quinine & iron tonic, senna, rheumatism tablets and anaemia tablets, Disinfecting Fluid - poison (R.W. Walden, 65 Elizabeth Street, Eaton Square, London), John Severn Walker (Cross, Worcester), A.H. Warmington (40 South Street, Exeter), Henry Watts (238 High Street, Chatham), Watts (17, Strand), J. Waugh (60 High Street, Camden Town, London), F.J. Wells (118 High Street, Oxford), J.D. Wells (Billericay, Essex),  Wetherfield & Duncan (1 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London), Fred A. White (The Stores, Flintham), Wilbur Drug Company (Snohomish, Washington), F.T. Wilby (124 Humberstone Road, Leicester : Bile Pills for Biliousness), Willard's Drug Store (Lusk, Wyoming : Ammonia, Bay rum, Carbolic acid, Tincture of benzoin, Essence of peppermeint, Oil of Eucalyptus, Mineral Oil), H. Williams (Commercial Street, Newport), Williams & Smith (21 West Street, Horsham),  G.F.B. Willing, Hampstead, London), W. Willis's Medical Hall (57 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, T. Gillan, proprietor), J.B. Wilson (95 North Street, Gosport : Chest ointment, Foot paste, Lotion for the relief of insect bites and stings, Pink ointment, Pure Glycerine)

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes labels for: H.W. Bartlett and Bartlett & Goodall (37 Crawford Street, Bryanston Square, London).

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes labels for: Quinine & Iron Tonic, Red Rose Gargle, Reguletts laxative tablets, Rheumatic Liniment, Ruby Liniment for Athletes, salt tarter, Seltzogenes (for preparation of seltzer water etc.).

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The little book of safety solutions

Early printed book labels : a catalogue of dated personal labels and gift labels printed in Britain to the year 1760

labels

labels

Labels

Labels

'Labels'

Labels

Labels

Sem labels

Pharmaceutical Labels

Pharmaceutical Labels

"Penicillin labels"

Pharmaceutical Labels

Pharmaceutical Labels

Exhibitors Labels

'Coopers Labels'

labels$s.toc

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

Products: labels / instructions

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

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The little book of safety solutions

Early printed book labels : a catalogue of dated personal labels and gift labels printed in Britain to the year 1760

labels

labels

Labels

Labels

'Labels'

Labels

Labels

Sem labels

Pharmaceutical Labels

Pharmaceutical Labels

"Penicillin labels"

Pharmaceutical Labels

Pharmaceutical Labels

Exhibitors Labels

'Coopers Labels'

labels$s.toc

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

Products: labels / instructions

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

Pharmacy labels ephemera.

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