Details
Contributor Adams, George S., distributor.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Lavine, Hartford Chemical Works, 30 Union Place. Try Lavine for washing. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 6.5 x 11 cm. (2.75 x 4.25 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting boys and girls playing with sailboats in a wash tub. One boy paints "Lavine" on laundry hanging in the background. Title appears on two wooden boxes in the left foreground.
Notes Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Geo. S. Adams, manufacturer's agent, No. 117 North Second Street, Philadelphia.
Advertising text printed on verso: Lavine for washing. The best and cheapest article every offered to the housekeeper. Ask your grocer for it and take no other. It has taken the highest awards at the American Institute Fairs, in October, 1880 and 1881, as well as the First Premium at every state and county fair where exhibited. Do not pay 15 cents a pound for a washing compound, when you can buy a better one for 13 cents. Make sure that your grocer give you Lavine. It makes the hardest water soft and will not injure the finest clothes. It does not burn the hands nor chap them in winter. Try it for washing your marble steps, floors, sinks, milk pans, or anything which may need washing.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Hartford Chemical Company.
Cosmetics industry -- Connecticut -- Hartford.
Children.
Household soap.
Laundry.
Play (Recreation)
Wash tubs.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Adams, George S., distributor.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Lavine [1975.F.513]
Accession number 1975.F.513