Trade card for Boraxine, substitute soap, Larkin Soap Mfg. Co., Buffalo, New York, undated

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Cleaning
Household soaps and polishes
Cleaning - Household soaps and polishes - Folder 2
Trade card for Boraxine, substitute soap, Larkin Soap Mfg. Co., Buffalo, New York, undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Cleaning
    - Household soaps and polishes
      - Cleaning - Household soaps and polishes - Folder 2
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        Bookmark for Higgins Soap, location unkown, undated
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        Trade card for Hand Sapolio, Enoch Morgan's Sons, location unknown, undated
        Advertisement for Johnson's Polishing Wax, S.C. Johnson & Son, Racine, Wisconsin, January 1924
        Trade card for Excelsior metal polish, as advertised by the manufacturer's agents Holway, Wright and Miner, 1880-1890
        Trade card for Sapolio's kitchen soap for steel and metals, 1877-1885
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        Trade card for Soapine, cleanser, Kendall Mfg. Co., Providence, Rhode Island, undated
        Trade card for Soapine, cleanser, Kendall Mfg. Co., Providence, Rhode Island, undated

Description

The card verso reads "Boraxine has for many years cleaned everything at the Boston Museum of Art." The product is an all purpose cleaner.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
cleaning
washing (cleaning)
soap (organic material)
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Descrption

1 trade card ; 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.021.02.04.024

Image Dimensions

3 1/2 x 6 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Greg Smart, October 20, 1997.

Places

Buffalo (Erie county, New York state)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Other Organizations

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Subjects

Copley Square

Description Level

Item

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