You need only one soap--Ivory soap / the Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York. – Antique Print
![You need only one soap--Ivory soap / the Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York., Cin[cinna]ti ; New York : The Strobridge Lith. Co., c1898. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b6/b61fb84e7a4b-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with You need only one soap--Ivory soap / the Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York., a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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You need only one soap--Ivory soap / the Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York.
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The title promises a single product for every need, and the catalog's subject headings, which pair soap with hygiene and frontier and pioneer life, suggest the poster links cleanliness to the rugged conditions of the American West. Procter & Gamble copyrighted it in 1898, a decade after it had introduced Ivory soap in 1879, and by then the brand was among the most heavily advertised household goods in the country. The Strobridge Lithographing Company, which printed the sheet in Cincinnati and New York, used chromolithography, a color process that let advertisers produce bold, flat hues on large posters. The print has since appeared in the Library of Congress exhibition *American Treasures* and in a Williams College show on American art and early film.
| Created / published | Cin[cinna]ti ; New York : The Strobridge Lith. Co., c1898. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 113 x 77 cm. |
| Genre | and other venues |
| Notes | Title from item. Copyright 1898 by The Procter & Gamble Co., Cin'ti, O., U.S.A. Promotional goal: U.S. C26. 1898. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art |
| Subjects | Procter & Gamble Company--Products. Hygiene--1890-1900. Soaps--1890-1900. Frontier & pioneer life--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,113 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106187 |
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