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- "Glam It Up: Nail Polish Menorah" Hanukkah Lamp, 2020 -

- 2020
- Collections - Artifact
"Glam It Up: Nail Polish Menorah" Hanukkah Lamp, 2020
- Product Label for Sweet Georgia Brown Nail Polish Remover, 1926-1946 - 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.

- 1926-1946
- Collections - Artifact
Product Label for Sweet Georgia Brown Nail Polish Remover, 1926-1946
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.