Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Buckingham's dye for the whiskers. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 14 x 7.5 cm. (5.5 x 3 in.), folded to 8.5 x 7.5 cm. (3.5 x 3 in.)
Description Illustrated metamorphic trade card depicting a before and after bust portrait of a man with a long beard. With the foldout closed, the man frowns through a white beard. With the foldout open, the man smiles through his dyed brown beard.
Notes Contains advertising text for R.P. Hall & Co.'s "Buckingham's Dye" and "Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer".
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject R.P. Hall & Company (Nashua, N.H.)
Cosmetics industry -- New Hampshire -- Nashua.
Pharmaceutical industry -- New Hampshire -- Nashua.
Beards.
Hair preparations.
Patent medicines.
Men.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Metamorphic pictures -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Buckingham's [1975.F.56]
Accession number 1975.F.56