Image / Sweet home soap J. L. Sarkin & Co. Buffalo, N.Y

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Title: Sweet home soap J. L. Sarkin & Co. Buffalo, N.Y
Creator: Richmond & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a five-fold leaflet advertising Sweet Home family soap manufactured by J. L. Sarkin & Co. of Buffalo, N.Y.; six panels illustrate the phases of a romantic relationship with a pair of anthropomorphized owls and frogs, including admiration, consummation, dissipation, desperation, reparation, and restoration; image of a pocket watch, retail information and testimonials on verso.
"Copyright 1886, Richmond & Co., Buffalo, N.Y."--text, bottom right margin of each panel.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 13.65 x 46.51 cm (5 3/8 x 18 5/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_HHD_003826
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4741
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Cleaning compounds
Anthropomorphism--Pictorial works
Frogs--Pictorial works
Owls--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Household
Large Size
Cleaning Products
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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