Broadside

Description

Broadside. Lithograph in black, white, and red-orange. Red-orange frame with geometric sunburst decoration at each corner. Illustration of three Shakers, two women with a male between them in window. This window overlaps a black and white branch with leaves and acorns and intersects with circular frame at center featuring a mortar and pestle within it. Text in at least four different fonts.

Notes

In 1884, the Mount Lebanon Shakers filed a lawsuit for patent infringement against Smith Bros & Co., a Montreal-based company that had trademarked and sold a medicine called Shakers' Blood Syrup without the knowledge or consent of the Shakers. In January of 1885, the firm agreed that it had no right to use the Shaker name or claim that the medicine was Shaker-made, and closed. To learn more, see blog post: https://shakerml.org/shakers-blood-syrup-a-case-of-trademark-infringement/