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An image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

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John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
919-660-5827

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Company
- Palmolive Company (242)
- Procter & Gamble Co. (234)
- Lever Brothers Company (137)
- Kotex Company (104)

Product
- Palmolive Soap (259)
- Sanitary Napkins (155)
- Ivory Soap (131)
- Lifebuoy Health Soap (74)

Subject
- Arrid (33)
- Arrid Cream Deodorant (19)
- Artist--Carl Setter (18)
- Artist--Eric (13)
- Artist--E Simms Campbell (15)
- Artist--illegible (22)
- Avon (17)
- Avon Cosmetics (17)
- Barbasol (45)
- Barbasol Shave Cream (22)
- Barbasol Shaving Cream (19)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Cosmetics (696)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Dental Supplies (231)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Deodorant (83)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Feminine Hygiene (301)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Hair Preparations (339)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Rouge (31)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Shaving Supplies (132)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Soaps (578)
- Boncilla Cosmetics (20)
- Boncilla Laboratories, Inc. (19)
- Bourjois (26)
- Cellucotton Products Company (27)
- Charles of the Ritz (14)
- Children (210)
- Clairol Incorporated (26)
- Clairol Shampoo Tint (14)
- Colgate's Rapid-Shave Cream (27)
- Colgate & Company (46)
- Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company (45)
- Contests (16)
- Cosmetics (37)
- Coty, Inc. (62)
- Country of Publication--Canada (52)
- Coupons (91)
- Dorothy Gray (53)
- Dorothy Gray Cosmetics (40)
- Dr. West's (13)
- Dr. West's Tooth Paste (21)
- Drene Shampoo (31)
- E. R. Squibb & Sons (44)
- Edna Wallace Hopper (14)
- Elizabeth Arden (60)
- Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics (13)
- English Lavender Cosmetics (27)
- Ethnic Groups--Middle East/Arab (14)
- Evening in Paris Cosmetics (15)
- Facial Soap (22)
- FIBS, The Kotex Tampon (13)
- Germaine Monteil (17)
- H. K. Mulford Co. (14)
- hair tonic (59)
- Halo Shampoo (21)
- Helena Rubinstein (25)
- Illustration--Cartoons (22)
- Illustration--Comics (119)
- Illustration--Drawing (1099)
- Illustration--Painting (124)
- Ivory Soap (131)
- Jergens (14)
- Jeris (31)
- Kay Daumit, Inc. (37)
- Kotex Company (104)
- Kreml (32)
- Lava Soap (39)
- Lever Brothers Company (137)
- Lifebuoy Health Soap (74)
- Lustre-Creme Shampoo (36)
- Marie Earle (27)
- Meds Tampons (18)
- Military (64)
- Modess (68)
- Modess Sanitary Napkins (13)
- Palmolive Company (242)
- Palmolive Soap (259)
- Pepsodent Company (66)
- Pepsodent Tooth Paste (25)
- Personal Products Corporation (19)
- Premiums (239)
- Procter & Gamble Co. (234)
- Radio Programs--Palmolive Radio Hour (13)
- Richard Hudnut (81)
- rouge (15)
- S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. (13)
- Sanitary Napkins (155)
- shampoo (14)
- Sports (49)
- Squibb's Dental Cream (40)
- SweetHeart (25)
- SweetHeart Toilet Soap (18)
- Tampax Inc. (59)
- Tampons (60)
- tooth paste (70)
- Various (72)
- Western Company (25)
- Wildroot Company, Inc. (47)
- Woodbury (25)
- Yardley's English Lavender (21)
- Yardley & Co., Ltd. (60)
- Yardley of London, Inc. (54)

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- 1945 (138)
- 1943 (125)
- 1942 (109)

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This category includes products (such as cosmetics, soaps, and shaving supplies) that were targeted for personal hygiene and enhancing one's attractiveness.

"Gee Mummy, but you're pretty!"	If You Handle Money, Use Lifebuoy Regularly	"for real comfort, try Meds internal protection!"	"...a necessity for well-groomed Men and Women," says Gypsy Rose Lee
Now! You Save 19¢	Doctors Prove Palmolive Soap Can Bring You A Lovelier Complexion in 14 days!	Eddie Is A Snow Man	The charm of London
Lord & Taylor Says They're...	"I Promise to love, honor and shave with Barbasol"	Frances Denney presents a romantic fragrance Wild Rose	You can laugh
Poise by Yardley	Live up to your Easter Bonnet!	"Don't Fuss, Mother, This Isn't So Fast"	The Romance That Lives Forever
Attendance By Card -- "Fragrance" By Yardley	Old ways seem crude once you know the lasting comfort of Kotex	Off to Work We Go!...	For instance...Squibb's Dental Cream may save you a bad case of rheumatism
Cools My Face In Seconds	... It's like finding a new and lovelier complexion!	Families Agree	Its cleaner, brighter Taste
Longer Time Between Shaves when you use Colgate's	Perhaps it was you...	Watch Out for Film	Pads need Amolin
New Glamour for You The DuBarry Way	Women Who Care	Is your skin really happy?	Have more "Paris" in your life!

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