Kickapoo medicine show, Fryeburg Fair, ca. 1900
Contributed by Fryeburg Historical Society
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John Healy and Charles Bigelow brought a band of "full-blooded Kickapoo Indians" (Sioux, Pawnee, Mohawk, Iroquois and Blackhawk) to the Fryeburg Fair ca. 1900 to put on a medicine show to sell Kickapoo Indian Remedies. Their remedies were considered "authentic" because they used herbs and not doctored up alcohol as some companies did.
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- Title: Kickapoo medicine show, Fryeburg Fair, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Town: Fryeburg
- County: Oxford
- State: ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions (cm): 20 x 25
- Local Code: Fryeburg Fair
- Object Type: Image
For more information about this item, contact:
Fryeburg Historical Society
511 Main St., Fryeburg, ME 04037
(207) 935-4192
http://www.fryeburghistorical.org/
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Indians of North America
Patent medicine
Agricultural exhibitions--Maine--Fryeburg
Fryeburg Fair
Kickapoo Medicine Company
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