Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Tray
Object Number:
2002.1.366
Date:
1910-1930
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 4 in. diameter
Description:
This circular black metal tray has a drawing of a little girl in a bonnet holding flowers sitting on a large bar of soap with an orange background and the inscription "Have you a little 'Fairy' in your home?". On the bottom "Sense-Cents-Scents/ Peope with Common Sense pay but five/ common Cents for a soap with no common/ Scents-thats Fairy Soap. Fairy Soap (the floating oval cake) is white and pure with/ no scents or dyes to disguise adulterations; it costs but five cents./ Avoid dyed soaps!"
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
