Germany Alka-Seltzer
Artist
Designer Unknown
Publisher
Darien House, Inc., New York City
Date1968
MediumOffset Lithograph
Dimensions32 x 24 in. (81.3 x 61 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.5699
DescriptionThis is one from a series of four posters advertising Alka-Seltzer. The humorous images feature the favorite local foods of four individual countries-- Germany, America, Italy, and Spain--that are most likely to cause indigestion and, therefore, to require the use of Alka-Seltzer. This particular poster shows fried sausages and potatoes in a poster titled "Germany" that incorporates lettering in the traditional German Fraktur style. Miles Laboratories of Indiana, the inventors of Alka-Seltzer, had been founded in 1884 and was in its heyday during the 1960s when it commissioned this series.On View
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