Kirk's White Cloud Floating Soap – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This rare vintage poster captures Kirk's White Cloud Floating Soap in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Kirk's White Cloud Floating Soap
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Kirk's White Cloud Floating Soap is a tall, narrow color poster, about 209 by 73 centimeters, built around a product whose selling point was that it floated, a feature still unusual for bar soap in the 1880s. The record credits the printing to Hughes Litho. Co. of Chicago and dates it to 1888, but those details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified. Chicago soap makers relied heavily on eye-catching lithographed advertising like this to win over grocery shoppers across the country.
| Created / published | Chicago : Hughes Litho. Co., 1888. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 209 x 73 cm. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 554 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172683 |
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