Notes

. Thanks for material support to the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard
University; and to the Cultures of Consumption Programme, funded by the Economic and
Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. For
their always helpful early readings, thanks to Bob Guldin, Phyllis Palmer, and Ann Romines.
Thanks also to Jonathan Morris, Marina Moskowitz, and Frank Trentmann for their useful
comments.
. Dan Pinkham to Will Pinkham, dated Thursday, Box 167, folder 3117, Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Company Papers, 1859-1968, MC 181, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute,
hereafter cited as LEPMC.
. Plucky Pinkhams. History of a Lynn Patent Medicine ConcernWhat Push and Printers
Ink Will Do, [November 1881], Lydias Scrapbook, Vol. 556, n.p. Microfilm Roll 1,
LEPMC.
. Dan Pinkham to Will Pinkham, dated Tuesday, Box 167, folder 3117, LEPMC.
. Dan Pinkham to Will Pinkham, dated Monday, Box 167, folder 3117, LEPMC.
. http://www.numarklabs.com/index.php?
src=gendocs&link=LydiaPinkham&category=Nutritional%20Supplements, accessed April 2,
2007.
. Dan Pinkham to Will Pinkham, dated Thursday, Box 167, folder 3117, Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Company Papers, 1859-1968, MC 181, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute,
hereafter cited as LEPMC.
. Quoted in Sarah Stage, Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Womens
Medicine (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979), p. 31 and Robert Colyer Washburn,
The Life and Times of Lydia E. Pinkham (G.P. Putnams and Sons, 1931), p. 89. These
books, along with Jean Burton, Lydia Pinkham is Her Name (New York: Farrar, Straus,
1949), offer somewhat different versions of the early years of the company; Stages book is
both more scholarly and informed by womens history.
9. Postcard, H.P. Hubbard to William H. Pinkham, May 10, 1881. Folder 3114, Box 167,
LEPMC.
10. H.P. Hubbard, The Story of Lydia Pinkham, Fame, Vol. 1, number 9 (1892), p. 263.
11. Harvard University VIA record, for photo number: MC181-2655-1, Record Identifier:
schM6029, http://via.harvard.edu:9080/via/deliver/chunkDisplay?
_collection=via&inoID=20954&recordNumber=8&chunkNumber=2&method=view&image
=thumb , accessed December 1, 2005.