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Steve Lawson Playing Baseball - Photograph Cover Of The June-July 1973 Issue of Greensboro Vicks Magazine.
Vicks Magazine was created by Vicks Vapor Rub-Vick chemical Co.
Photograph source: Greensboro History Museum Archives, Greensboro, NC.
Lunsford Richardson (1854-1919) began marketing various remedies in Greensboro, N.C. in 1898.
The operation became Vick Chemical Company in 1911 and made increasing profits with its Vicks VapoRub cold remedy.
The Company was managed over the following decades by Richardson's sons H. Smith (1885-1972) and Lunsford, Jr. (1891-1953).
After various mergers and acquisitions, it became Richardson-Vick, Inc., in 1980. In 1985 the Richardson family sold the company to Procter & Gamble Co
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