Kirk's White Cloud Floating Soap advertisement with two women – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Kirk's White Cloud Floating Soap advertisement with two women comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Kirk's White Cloud Floating Soap advertisement with two women
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Kirk's White Cloud Floating Soap is the product this advertisement sets out to sell, and the two women pictured are there to make it look like the choice of respectable, careful housekeepers. Floating soap was a selling point in its own right: a bar that bobbed in the bath was easy to find and hard to lose, and that practical promise was pushed hard in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American print advertising. Trade cards and magazine pages like this one used polished domestic scenes to tie cleanliness to family life and social standing. Look closely at the composition and you can see how the product name and the women's posed attention work together to persuade the viewer.
| Original scan | 587 × 879 px |
|---|---|
| Reference | 1598 |
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