Pears' Soap advertisement: The virtues of Pears' Soap, 100 years – Historic Reproduction
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Pears' Soap advertisement: The virtues of Pears' Soap, 100 years
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Few advertisements of the period made a claim as sweeping as this one, which presents Pears' Soap as the product of a full century of trade. The firm traced its origins to Andrew Pears, a London barber whose transparent soap was sold from the late eighteenth century, and by the Victorian era the brand was among the best known in Britain. Advertisers of the day leaned on respectable imagery and claims of purity to persuade middle-class buyers that a bar of soap signaled refinement and good health. The piece is worth a close look for how it presents cleanliness as a moral virtue as much as a practical one.
| Original scan | 559 × 816 px |
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| Reference | 543 |
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