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- Schick Cordless Electric Toothbrush -
- Collections - Artifact
Schick Cordless Electric Toothbrush
- General Electric Model 5101 Cordless Electric Toothbrush, circa 1963 -
- circa 1963
- Collections - Artifact
General Electric Model 5101 Cordless Electric Toothbrush, circa 1963
- Presto Touch 'n Brush Cordless Automatic Toothbrush, 1965-1975 - Electric appliance manufacturer National Presto Industries, Inc., became known for innovative products that anticipated and responded to evolving consumer needs. In the 1960s and 1970s, Presto introduced a line of personal grooming appliances. The company contracted Mel Boldt and Associates to design its distinctive electric toothbrushes, hairbrushes, and curler sets.
- 1965-1975
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Presto Touch 'n Brush Cordless Automatic Toothbrush, 1965-1975
Electric appliance manufacturer National Presto Industries, Inc., became known for innovative products that anticipated and responded to evolving consumer needs. In the 1960s and 1970s, Presto introduced a line of personal grooming appliances. The company contracted Mel Boldt and Associates to design its distinctive electric toothbrushes, hairbrushes, and curler sets.
- Product Label for Kiss Me Again Mouth Wash, 1937 - Valmor Products 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.
- 1937
- Collections - Artifact
Product Label for Kiss Me Again Mouth Wash, 1937
Valmor Products 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.
- Product Label for Sweet Georgia Brown Liquid Cleansing Cream, 1935 - Valmor Products 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.
- 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Product Label for Sweet Georgia Brown Liquid Cleansing Cream, 1935
Valmor Products 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.
- Trade Card for Seely's Fine Perfumes, circa 1880 - 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.
- circa 1880
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Trade Card for Seely's Fine Perfumes, circa 1880
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.
- Tissue Box Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama - In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- 1960-1969
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Tissue Box Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- "Build Back Better" Biden Campaign Bottle of Hand Sanitizer, 2020 - This bottle of hand sanitizer, sold via the official Biden campaign site, features a detailed outline of Biden's plan to combat COVID-19, as well as the "Build Back Better" slogan adopted by the campaign. Throughout the run-up to the election, Biden positioned himself as the candidate who most believed in science, and with a prepared plan to guide the country out of the pandemic.
- 2020
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"Build Back Better" Biden Campaign Bottle of Hand Sanitizer, 2020
This bottle of hand sanitizer, sold via the official Biden campaign site, features a detailed outline of Biden's plan to combat COVID-19, as well as the "Build Back Better" slogan adopted by the campaign. Throughout the run-up to the election, Biden positioned himself as the candidate who most believed in science, and with a prepared plan to guide the country out of the pandemic.
- Presto Model LP02-A Cordless Electric Toothbrush, 1960-1970 - Electric appliance manufacturer National Presto Industries, Inc., became known for innovative products that anticipated and responded to evolving consumer needs. In the 1960s and 1970s, Presto introduced a line of personal grooming appliances. The company contracted Mel Boldt and Associates to design its distinctive electric toothbrushes, hairbrushes, and curler sets.
- 1960-1970
- Collections - Artifact
Presto Model LP02-A Cordless Electric Toothbrush, 1960-1970
Electric appliance manufacturer National Presto Industries, Inc., became known for innovative products that anticipated and responded to evolving consumer needs. In the 1960s and 1970s, Presto introduced a line of personal grooming appliances. The company contracted Mel Boldt and Associates to design its distinctive electric toothbrushes, hairbrushes, and curler sets.
- Box of Kleenex Facial Tissues, circa 1955 -
- circa 1955
- Collections - Artifact
Box of Kleenex Facial Tissues, circa 1955