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"Laundress Soap" 1893 Columbian Exposition Cleveland Ohio Color Bldg Series Ad

$ 5.8

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Featured Refinements: Columbian Exposition
  • Condition: Excellent: Cover color print fine. Color graphic image of the Art Palace Building; one of 12 in a series. No tears, stains, or marks. Corners gently rounded.
  • World Fair: 1893 Chicago
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Year: 1893
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Theme: World’s Fairs
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Colorful "Laundress Soap" Main Building Series Ad for the Chicago 1893 World's Fair
    - 3.25 x 4.5 inches
    coated stiff card
    with black caption print and graphic of the
    Art Palace Building
    on
    a tan background (front cover shown); back with black print and list of their 12 WCE principal views included with receipt of 10 soap wrappers (shown)
    . Cleveland, OH:
    Central Manufacturing
    , 1893. Single card printed both sides. The back also gives
    a
    description
    that their soap is gentle and contains no lye
    (shown). Part of a
    series of WCE cards
    depicting the main buildings and used my other advertisers besides Central Manufacturing (see another example advertising from the same card series for "Jersey Coffee" now on eBay and making a pair).
    -
    Supplemental Information
    : I could not find an exhibit location for them in either the "The Official Directory" or "The Official Catalog" of exhibitors, so I think this was one of numerous companies that rode the popularity of the WCE but did not participate except to support it with many ads.
    Central's
    main product was
    seems to have been
    "Laundress Soap"
    as I couldn't find their history in Cleveland on the Internet.
    - Condition:
    Excellent:
    Cover color print fine (shown). Color graphic image of the Art Palace Building (shown). No tears, stains, or marks (shown). Corners gently rounded (shown).
    **Buyer pays
    .95 First Class Package shipping in a stiff container with tracking number.