Rowland's Macassar Oil hair advertisement with bottle illustration – Antique Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Rowland's Macassar Oil hair advertisement with bottle illustration. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Rowland's Macassar Oil hair advertisement with bottle illustration
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Rowland's Macassar Oil was a hair dressing sold in London by the firm A. Rowland & Son, and its name pointed to Makassar in what is now Indonesia, though the product itself was a compounded formula made in England. Its advertisements ran heavily in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines, and the bottle was often drawn as a prominent emblem to make the product easy to recognize. The oil was so greasy that it stained chair backs and sofas, which led to the name "antimacassar" for the protective covers householders draped over them. This advertisement shows how patent medicines and toiletries of the period relied on bold visual branding to reach a mass audience.
| Original scan | 800 × 429 px |
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| Reference | 844 |
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