Kingsford's Oswego Starch – Historic Reproduction
(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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Kingsford's Oswego Starch comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Kingsford's Oswego Starch
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Kingsford's Oswego Starch, a color lithograph from about 1885, is an advertisement that sells a household product through a scene of women at their domestic work. The print was issued by Julius Bien & Co. of New York, a firm known for high-quality chromolithographs in the late nineteenth century. Starch was a staple of laundry day, used to stiffen collars, cuffs and petticoats, and advertising cards like this one were often tucked into homes or handed out by grocers, making the product's name familiar to a broad public. Its subjects, women at laundry work and at the ironing board, point to the heavy labor that home laundering required before electric appliances and commercial laundries became common.
| Created / published | c1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by Julius Bien & Co., N.Y. |
| Subjects | Women--Social life--1880-1890. Laundry--1880-1890. Irons (Pressing)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,177 × 4,208 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223141 |
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