Pears Soap advertisement: A Great Discovery, balloon airship – Historic Print
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This rare historic image captures Pears Soap advertisement: A Great Discovery, balloon airship in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Pears Soap advertisement: A Great Discovery, balloon airship
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Few advertisements of the period reached for the sky quite like this one, with a balloon airship drifting above the scene as the headline promises a great discovery. Airships were still a novelty in the late 1800s, and public fascination with powered flight made them an easy way for advertisers to suggest that a everyday product belonged to a modern age. Pears, the London soap maker, built its reputation on bold illustrated advertising in British and American magazines, tying its name to progress and cleanliness. The design sells the soap through spectacle rather than a list of its virtues.
| Original scan | 562 × 800 px |
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| Reference | 420 |
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