Know nothing soap – 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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Know nothing soap comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few household labels of the 1850s tied a bar of soap to national politics as openly as this one. The name refers to the Know Nothing movement, formally the American Party, a nativist political force that surged in the mid-1850s and drew much of its strength from opposition to immigration and Catholicism. The Boston firm Geo. A. Hill & Co., of Federal Street, borrowed that political moment to sell soap. The label's second subject, Indians of North America, reflects the period's wide use of popular, often stereotyped imagery in advertising. Its copyright deposit in October 1854 places it at the height of the party's early success.
| Created / published | 1854 |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph printed in red, grey, blue, and black on coated paper ; 15.2 x 12.6 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Advertisements 1850-1860.Lithographs 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Entered . . . 1854 by G.A. Hill . . . Massachusetts. Geo. A. Hill & Co. 56 Federal Street, Boston. L.H. Bradford & Cos. Lith. The Library's impression of the label was deposited for copyright on October 20, 1854. Title appears as it is written on the item. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1854-3. |
| Subjects | American Party--1850-1860. Indians of North America--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,149 × 1,441 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218846 |
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