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Glenn's celebrated perfumery and toilet soaps

Description: Image of an advertisement for a variety of personal care and perfumed products sold by Glenn & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; three women in flowing garments and three cherubs are surrounded by a profusion of flowers interspersed with text listing products, including soaps, extracts, tooth pastes, and washes.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1853-1872
Call number: priJLC_PC_003591
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: 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 view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Perfumery gold medal R & G.A. Wright manufacturers of the celebrated gold medal perfumery

Visual Materials

The Jay T. Last Collection of personal care prints and ephemera contains approximately 865 printed items related to grooming and personal care in the United States from approximately 1832 to 1931, with the bulk of the content dating from 1860 to 1900. Most items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. The collection deals with products and services relating to grooming, cleansing, and preserving one's hair, scalp, skin, or teeth to promote individual hygiene or to beautify one's appearance. Materials focus on consumer goods or acts of assistance that do not require medical direction to purchase or use. Such products include cosmetics, hair oils, perfumes, razors, shaving creams, shampoos, skin lotions, talcum powder, toothpaste, tooth powder, brushes, combs, hair pins, and wigs. Such services include barbers, hairdressers, wigmakers, and styling salons. As graphic materials, the collection highlights developing techniques and trends in printmaking while documenting the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.

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Essex Agricultural Society, of Massachusetts

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Image of a woman in flowing garments seated with arms around two children and gesturing next to a beehive and flowers illustrating a certificate of membership from the Essex Agricultural Society of Massachusetts; farm, fields, and barn buildings in background; two cherubs with farming implements outside a center circular frame.

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Essex Agricultural Society, of Massachusetts

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Paris laundry soap : Shubart, Ehret & Co. Chicago

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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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A. Hawley & Co. Perfumers and chemists

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for perfumed toiletry products sold by A. Hawley & Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; list of soaps, lotions, extracts, toothpastes, and other products with descriptions surrounded by an elaborate floral border with women and fauns; A. Hawley & Co. "A.H.&Co." monogram at bottom center.

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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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Glenn's celebrated perfumery and toilet soaps

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