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- Trade Card for Dutcher's Lightning Fly-Killer, 1870-1890 - This trade card features a flypaper knight vanquishing a huge fly. Dutcher's, a chemical company based in St. Albans's, Vermont, marketed its Lightning Fly-Killer by promising "annihilation of the buzzy tormentors." Consumers used Dutcher's and other popular brands of arsenical flypapers by soaking the paper in a dish of water for flies to drink. But arsenic was dangerous for humans, too, and flypaper caused some accidental fatalities.
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Dutcher's Lightning Fly-Killer, 1870-1890
This trade card features a flypaper knight vanquishing a huge fly. Dutcher's, a chemical company based in St. Albans's, Vermont, marketed its Lightning Fly-Killer by promising "annihilation of the buzzy tormentors." Consumers used Dutcher's and other popular brands of arsenical flypapers by soaking the paper in a dish of water for flies to drink. But arsenic was dangerous for humans, too, and flypaper caused some accidental fatalities.