Details
Title Gold Dust Washing Powder. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : Ketterlinus
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 9 x 8 cm (3.5 x 3 in.)
Description Racist die cut trade card illustration advertising a cleaning agent. Image depicts a pair of smiling identical twin African American boys sitting in a wooden tub filled with soapy water. The boys each have an arm wrapped around one another and the boy on the right rests his left arm on the edge of the tub. The boys are both depicted with exaggerated features. Gold Dust Washing Powder was created in the late 1880s by the Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank Soap Company, which was based in New York, and was distributed by the Lever Brothers Company, which was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The "Gold Dust Twins," "Goldie" and "Dustie," were introdued in the 1890s and were the faces of the brand until the 1950s.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from dates of operation of business.
Advertising text on verso: Best purest Gold Dust Washing Poweder does more work in less time with less labor than any other at less than half the cost. Buy our large package--it means economy to the consumer. See that the trade mark The "Twins" is on every package. Made only by The N.K. Fairbank Company, Chicago. St. Louis. New York. Boston. Philadelphia. Montreal.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chemical industry -- New York -- New York.
Household soap.
Racism in popular culture.
Twins.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - N.K. Fairbanks [P.2017.95.136]
Accession number P.2017.95.136