Object Details
- Paris Toilet Company
- Description
- In 1913, the Mitchum Warren family established the Paris Toilet Company in Paris, Tenn., to market a bleaching cream for freckles. The company name was changed in 1927 to the Golden Peacock Company and later became the Mitchum Company. It was said that one of the founding family’s sons, Mitchum Warren, grew tired of being asked if his family made toilets.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.293
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.293
- Object Name
- cosmetic
- facial bleach
- cream, face
- Other Terms
- Cosmetics; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm
- place made
- United States: Tennessee, Paris
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Health
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Make-up
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Skin
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_738595
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-891a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
