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- Listerine Mouthwash Bottle, 1927-1935 -
- 1927-1935
- Collections - Artifact
Listerine Mouthwash Bottle, 1927-1935
- Astringosol Display, 1922-1928 -
- 1922-1928
- Collections - Artifact
Astringosol Display, 1922-1928
- Product Label for Sweet Breath Mouth Wash, 1938 - 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.
- 1938
- Collections - Artifact
Product Label for Sweet Breath Mouth Wash, 1938
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.