Object Details
- J. B. Williams Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Suggested uses: On the body, after a tub, shower, or dip. In the shoes and stockings before dancing and walking. On the body, before and after golf, tennis, and other excercise. On sunburned skin. After shaving. Doesn't show. Use it after Aqua Velva.
- This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sidney U. Glaser
- ca 1940
- ID Number
- 1988.3089.115
- catalog number
- 1988.3089.115
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3089
- Object Name
- powder, body
- personal hygiene product
- Physical Description
- tin (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 in; 12.7 cm x 7.3025 cm x 2.54 cm
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Glastonbury
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Marketed to Men
- Beauty and Health
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Skin
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1377142
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-c000-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
