Collection Highlights
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.065.815.7
Medium:
Stereograph
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Luce Center
Cosmetic Bottle
Object Number:
2002.1.461
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Glass, paper
Dimensions:
5 1/4 x 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.
Description:
This square aqua glass bottle for "Wax Floss" has a hand-finished cork lip and is wrapped with a label that has an instruction booklet attached. The label reads, in part, "A new and ... preparation for Improving, beautifying and Dressing Hair/ Wax Floss" with a drawing of a little girls head and the words "The very pattern girl of girls./ All covered and embowered in curls, floss tinted with the Wax of Flowers/ Caswell & Co./ Boston".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
