Pears soap advert: child with puppy beside washbasin – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Pears soap advert: child with puppy beside washbasin brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Pears soap advert: child with puppy beside washbasin
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A child with a puppy beside a washbasin is the scene that gives this advertisement its charm, the sort of sentimental domestic image that Victorian soap makers used to make cleanliness seem warm and affectionate. Pears soap, sold in Britain from the nineteenth century, was promoted heavily through printed advertising, and its campaigns often paired purity with gentle, familiar scenes of childhood. Worth noticing is how the picture sells an idea rather than the product itself: washing becomes a tender daily ritual, linking hygiene with innocence and home life.
| Original scan | 634 × 864 px |
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| Reference | 393 |
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