Hovey's Cocoa Glycerine for preserving & dressing the hair – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Hovey's Cocoa Glycerine for preserving & dressing the hair. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hovey's Cocoa Glycerine for preserving & dressing the hair
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Hovey's Cocoa Glycerine, sold as a preparation for preserving and dressing the hair, is the product this lithograph promotes, and the print dates to about 1860. Boston lithographer J.H. Bufford is credited as its printer, and the copyright notice names S.D. Hovey. Manufacturers of toiletries and patent remedies in the mid-nineteenth century relied heavily on eye-catching color prints like this one to attract buyers. The catalog record draws on an older caption card that has since been revised, so the attribution and date are worth treating with some caution.
| Created / published | c1860. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860. |
| Notes | Printed by J.H. Bufford. Copyrighted by S.D. Hovey. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford Ref. copy may be in SSF - HAIR STYLES AND HAIRDRESSING. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,032 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172429 |
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