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White Russian soap Jas. S. Kirk & Co

Description: Image of an advertisement for White Russian Soap sold by Jas. S. Kirk & Company of Chicago, Illinois; bear in circular frame at top left with decorative text and borders.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1880
Call number: priJLC_HHD_001903
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the household goods prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

J. Thompson's for the whole washing-compound and fancy soaps

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for J. Thompson's washing compound and soaps; woman in flowing robes seated on a large sphere of soap at center of an elaborate decorative frame with soap in one hand and a banner in the other; man and woman in top corners each using soap; interior and exterior views of J. Thompson's business building and store in bottom corners of image.

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Jas. S Kirk & Comp’y, : soapmakers-perfumers-chemists

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Image of an advertisement for James S. Kirk & Company; four vignettes and views surround central view of boats in a harbor lined with factories: one of Native Americans in canoes on water, in upper left corner; one of a burning cityscape, in upper right corner; one of a woman with a Roman fasces, American flag, and bald eagle in the upper center; and one of the Chicago, Illinois, lake shore with boats in Lake Michigan, bottom half; front and back of a medal won the Cotton Centennial Exposition at center; six small images of card giveaway examples along the bottom showing children, war scenes, a waterfront, and pets.

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Paris laundry soap : Shubart, Ehret & Co. Chicago

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Paris laundry soap manufactured by Shubart, Ehret & Company, Chicago; image of an elephant draped with tapestries carrying Paris soap and several cherubs on its back being carried in an oversized shell pulled by large fish; cavorting mermen and nude women draped in flowing fabric surround the elephant.

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The fur-seal's tooth by Kirk Munroe

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for The Fur-Seal's Tooth by Kirk Munroe featuring a man with a gun being rowed in a boat by two other men towards a seal with its head above water at bottom right; linked teeth as decorative border.

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Santa Claus soap

Visual Materials

Image of Santa Claus carrying a Christmas tree and a box of Santa Claus soap as he visits a little girl in an advertisement for Santa Claus soap manufactured by the N.K. Fairbank Company; large bar of soap on paper wrapping at bottom right.

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State line : Austin, Baldwin & Co. General agents

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Image of an advertisement for the State Line and their agents; a sailor hammering a flag emblazoned with an "S" and a star at the top of a mast with ships sailing the ocean in the background within a decorative frame; globes at left and right showing both sides of the world.

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White Russian soap Jas. S. Kirk & Co

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