Vegetable Compound, from an early-1900s cookbook entitled Fruits and Candies Letter signed "Mrs Pinkham", received by a woman who wrote to her in 1910. Salem Women's Heritage Trail WWII B-17 Shot Down 19 December 1943 - Robert D. Peterson Pilot, warplane named "Lydia Pinkham" Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company. Records, 1776-1968.Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Newspaper advertisement for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, from The Daily Evening News, Saint John, N.B., April 17, 1883 Lily the Pink Sheet Music The L. E. Pinkham Medicine Company had its factory and offices on the corner of 267–271 Western Avenue and Cleveland St. See the 1897 Atlas of Lynn, Massachusetts, plate 6. Lower Right side. Click on map for a very large and clear image. 1819 births 1883 deaths Herbalists Patent medicine businesspeople American feminists Drinking culture People from Lynn, Massachusetts Pseudoscientific diet advocates American abolitionists 19th-century American businesspeople 19th-century American businesswomen