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  • Glenn's celebrated perfumery and toilet soaps

    Glenn's celebrated perfumery and toilet soaps

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    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.

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  • Washing crystal ... ball blue

    Washing crystal ... ball blue

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    Image of an advertisement for washing crystals and ball blue bluing manufactured by C.H. Fischer & Company; women and children in flowing robes do laundry outdoors in large wooden tubs surrounded by boxes of C.H. Fischer & Co. products; elaborate decorative border with ball bluing and the slogan "Trade mark shows quality," incorporated; landscape with mountains, fields, and trees in background.

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

    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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  • Reliable, soluble, permanent, sugar coated pills

    Reliable, soluble, permanent, sugar coated pills

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    Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising pills, medicinal extracts, and pharmaceutical products manufactured by William R. Warner & Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; price lists and descriptions; decorative borders.

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    1234567890

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    Image of a page of calligraphy and penmanship examples featuring numbers surrounded by an elaborate frame made up of a bird next to a tree and flowers.

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    Perfumes, A-G by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

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    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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