Have you a little FAIRY in your home? Fairy Soap advertisement – Historic Print
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Have you a little FAIRY in your home? Fairy Soap advertisement
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Lead with what sets this one apart: it is an advertisement for Fairy Soap, a laundry and household soap made by Procter & Gamble, and its headline asks readers whether they have a little fairy in their home, a playful nod to the bar's name. Advertising of this kind flourished in American magazines and on trade cards from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, when brands competed for housewives' attention by pairing products with cheerful imagery and whimsical characters. Fairy Soap was one of the long-lived names in that market, and ads like this one show how household cleaning was marketed as a pleasant, even magical, part of daily domestic life.
| Original scan | 628 × 908 px |
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| Reference | 490 |
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