Lydia E. Pinkham - Vegetable Compound
Lydia E. Pinkham converted her home medicine remedy to a major business, and pioneered advertising to women. That her patent medicine had a high percentage alcohol content didn't hurt its attraction -- and some temperance leaders unwittingly lent their names to her advertising campaigns.
Find A Grave: Lydia Pinkham
Images of Lydia Pinkham's burial site, Massachusetts.
Images of Lydia Pinkham's burial site, Massachusetts.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine Business
A brief history of Pinkham's product, including images of advertisements, bottles, some pages from "Lydia Pinkham's Private Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar to Women," and many more objects. Article at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health.
A brief history of Pinkham's product, including images of advertisements, bottles, some pages from "Lydia Pinkham's Private Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar to Women," and many more objects. Article at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health.
Lydia Pinkham's Grandchildren
Large graphic of an 1889 Pinkham image in color.
Large graphic of an 1889 Pinkham image in color.
The Name that Launched a Million Bottles
A story of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, from the Vanderbilt Medical Center's Patent Medicine Collection.
A story of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, from the Vanderbilt Medical Center's Patent Medicine Collection.
Varieties of Medical Ephemera: Women
Includes an image of Lydia Pinkham from a pamphlet, 1908.
Includes an image of Lydia Pinkham from a pamphlet, 1908.
Women, Money, and Power: Lydia Pinkham
Video presentation about Lydia Pinkham, emphasizing how Pinkham answered real needs of women for medical advice, and was thus "thrust" into entrepreneurship.
Video presentation about Lydia Pinkham, emphasizing how Pinkham answered real needs of women for medical advice, and was thus "thrust" into entrepreneurship.