We're gonna need a bigger Vault ... Hagley is observing Shark Week today (and a happy, healthy one to those who celebrate). This 1895 illustration is from "Wonders of the Deep”, an pamphlet issued. by the New York City patent medicine firm of Scott and Bowne, founded by Samuel W. Bowne (1842–1910) and Alfred B. Scott (1946–1908).
The pamphlet advertised Scott’s Emulsion cod liver oil, the company's flagship product and details a great variety of “slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea” off American coastlines. It was illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941), an American illustrator, author, and social reformer.
The pamphlet is part of the Hagley Library’s collection of Carter Litchfield Collection on the History of Fatty Materials (Accession 2413). As an organic chemist, Carter Litchfield (1932-2007) studied and specialized in edible fats. Over the course of his career, Litchfield built an important collection about the history of fats and fatty materials.
You can view it in full, along with a selection of other materials from this and our collection of Carter Litchfield photographs and ephemera on the history of fatty materials (Accession 2007.227) online now by visiting their page in our Digital Archive. Just click here!