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- Shipping Box for Vanilla Extract, 1906-1920 - Workers at Will Currier's shoe shop in Newton, New Hampshire, used a variety of tools, fasteners and bits of leather, wood, and metal to make shoes. Small wooden boxes, like this one, helped organize the shop and kept needed material close at hand.
- 1906-1920
- Collections - Artifact
Shipping Box for Vanilla Extract, 1906-1920
Workers at Will Currier's shoe shop in Newton, New Hampshire, used a variety of tools, fasteners and bits of leather, wood, and metal to make shoes. Small wooden boxes, like this one, helped organize the shop and kept needed material close at hand.
- Product Label for Valmor Vanilla and Vanillin Flavor, 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 Valmor Vanilla and Vanillin Flavor, 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.
- "Blue Ribbon Pure Vanilla Extract" Bottle, 1933-1950 -
- 1933-1950
- Collections - Artifact
"Blue Ribbon Pure Vanilla Extract" Bottle, 1933-1950