Pears' Soap advertisement with two children, "We won't be happy till we get it! – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Pears' Soap advertisement with two children, "We won't be happy till we get it!. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Pears' Soap advertisement with two children, "We won't be happy till we get it!
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Two children crowd together in this Pears' Soap advertisement, and the slogan "We won't be happy till we get it!" puts the product in their voices, which was a common approach in late nineteenth-century British advertising. Pears was one of the most heavily promoted soaps of that era, and its makers filled newspapers, magazines, and posters with sentimental images of children meant to suggest cleanliness, innocence, and domestic comfort. Ads like this one helped turn a bar of soap into a household name, and they show how closely commercial marketing had begun to borrow the look of fine art and family life.
| Original scan | 556 × 951 px |
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| Reference | 1624 |
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