• Title
  Frank Weston, the Wizard Oil Prince, between 1864-1869 / photographer Alexander McDonald
• Creator
  Alexander McDonald
• Call number
  P1/1938
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  between 1864-1869
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  901340
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - 10.3 x 6.2 cm - carte de visite
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Frank Weston advertised his Wizard Oil and Magic Pill panaceas everywhere in the theatrical journals, and ended up with his own theatrical company in Melbourne. Everything he did was infused with a Yankee genius for self-promotion. Augustus Baker Peirce even worked for Weston for a while, spruiking his cure-all Wizard Oil, before unsuccessfully trying to replicate Weston’s success by promoting a panacea of his own.
  
  Weston claims to have been the first to bring the travelling medicine show from America to Australia
  
  American patent medicines imported by the Alabama opportunist Frank Weston, and sold in Australia alongside his own Wizard Oil:
  
  Dr Merritt’s Scientific Ozone Inhaler
  Dr Wistan’s Balsam of Wild Cherry
  Dr Pierce’s Purgative Pellets
  Hagan’s Magnolia Balm
  Ozone or Active Oxygen
  Pond’s Extract
  Glen’s Sulphur Soap
  American Bay Rum
  Patey’s Cold Cream
  Laid’s Bloom of Youth
  
  Reference:
  The Vapour trail. http://bellanta.wordpress.com/ (accessed July 27, 2010)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Weston, Frank (BM), July 2010
  Digital order no:a4366038
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Very truly yours, Frank Weston. 'W.O.P.'" -- in ink on the reverse
  
  Photographer's stamp
• Name
  Weston, Frank
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  performers
  medicines
  Americans (United States)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3294738

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