Colgate's Cold Cream advertisement from Life magazine – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Colgate's Cold Cream advertisement from Life magazine. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Colgate's Cold Cream advertisement from Life magazine
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Colgate's Cold Cream ad, as published in Life magazine, is a good example of how the company pitched its skin cream to American women in the mid-twentieth century. Cold cream was a long-standing product, first made in the 1890s and sold as a way to cleanse and soften skin, and advertisers of the period often paired it with promises of romance and social confidence. Magazine pages like this one show how beauty marketing leaned on a mix of hygiene claims and glamour, and they are useful for seeing what women were told mattered about their appearance.
| Original scan | 614 × 800 px |
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| Reference | 1448 |
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