Hadacol trade token (front and back), 1948
photograph · 1948
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SUMMARY
Two photographs (front and back of the same coin-shaped token) uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by user Allstarecho, self-described as self-made photographs, dated January 31, 2008, and released to the public domain by the photographer/copyright holder. The Commons file pages describe the object as a 1948 Hadacol drug tonic token; no external holding institution (museum, archive, or library record) for this specific object was found in a search of the four supported archives or elsewhere, so Wikimedia Commons is used as the source of record for this artifact (a documented Commons-only source, per the routine's rule). Direct visual inspection of the downloaded images (at full resolution, via the Read/view-image tool) confirms the front bears a profile bust of a bespectacled man encircled by the raised text identifying LeBlanc Laboratories, Lafayette, Louisiana; the back bears a bottle silhouette, the word Hadacol, the date 1948, and partly worn text (partly obscured by wear and a punched hole) offering 25 cents toward a bottle of Hadacol at a participating dealer. Per the identification rule, the case does not assert the profile bust depicts Dudley LeBlanc personally, since neither the Commons record nor any other independently found record makes that identification; the caption instead reports only the token's own inscribed text.
NOTES
This 1948 promotional trade token — redeemable for a 25-cent discount on a bottle of Hadacol — is the case’s object-role media. It was manufactured by (or for) LeBlanc Laboratories of Lafayette, Louisiana, and its two faces are used as separate Media entities in the case (front: the company/location inscription and portrait bust; back: the product/redemption inscription and date). No holding institution beyond the uploading Wikimedia Commons contributor was found for this specific artifact after a documented search of the four supported archives; this Source and its Commons file pages are the case’s citation of record for it. Facts drawn from it are reported here and in the case in indirect/paraphrased style rather than as quoted spans, since it is a directly viewed image rather than a fetchable web page a verify-quotes block could mechanically confirm.