Sweet Georgia Brown Hair Dressing Pomade Packaging, 1926-1944
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Artifact Overview
Valmor Product Company, founded in the mid-1920s, sold beauty products to Black Americans. The company's product packaging was designed by Charles Dawson, a successful Black commercial artist whose illustrations of attractive modern Black Americans contributed to a burgeoning culture of positive Black identity. But the company's legacy is complicated--many of its products pushed a white assimilatory ideal, promising effects like skin lightening.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Packaging
Date Made
1926-1944
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Cover art by Charles C. Dawson, product distributed by Valmor Products Co. of Chicago, Illinois.
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2022.57.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Katherine White.
Material
Metal
Color
Orange (Color)
Black (Color)
White (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 0.313 in
Diameter: 1.188 in
Inscriptions
on lid:
Sweet Georgia Brown / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. / HAIR DRESSING POMADE
on bottom:
FOR / MEN AND / WOMEN / Use complete contents of / this can for one application. / Rub into the hair with finger / tips. Brush and comb into / place. Get full size can for / 50c from Agent or write / Distributed by / VALMOUR PRODUCTS CO. / CHICAGO, ILL. / U. S. A.
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