Box for Tolu Gum

ID: 2857 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of Seymour Museum Center of Indiana ~ Date: c. 1880s.
This file appears in: Fitch's Tolu Chewing Gum Factory
Box for Tolu Gum

A box of Tolu Chewing Gum from the 1880s. The packaging advertises the gum as a treatment for coughs, colds, indigestion, and dyspepsia.

This file appears in: Fitch's Tolu Chewing Gum Factory

By Janet Hensen
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