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- Bottle, 1825-1840 -
- 1825-1840
- Collections - Artifact
Bottle, 1825-1840
- Cologne Bottle, 1850-1870 -
- 1850-1870
- Collections - Artifact
Cologne Bottle, 1850-1870
- Cologne Bottle, 1830-1860 -
- 1830-1860
- Collections - Artifact
Cologne Bottle, 1830-1860
- Product Label for Lucky Jickey Perfume, 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 Lucky Jickey Perfume, 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.
- Perfume Bottle, 1855-1870 -
- 1855-1870
- Collections - Artifact
Perfume Bottle, 1855-1870
- Product Label for High Life Perfume, 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 High Life Perfume, 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.
- Cologne Bottle, 1850-1865 -
- 1850-1865
- Collections - Artifact
Cologne Bottle, 1850-1865
- Trade Card for Austen's Forest Flower Cologne, W.J. Austen & Co., 1885 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Austen's Forest Flower Cologne, W.J. Austen & Co., 1885
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Cologne Bottle, 1840-1880 -
- 1840-1880
- Collections - Artifact
Cologne Bottle, 1840-1880
- Cologne Bottle, 1830-1850 -
- 1830-1850
- Collections - Artifact
Cologne Bottle, 1830-1850