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Joe and Lil Shapiro collection of laundry ephemera (MS.2014.002)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Poster stamps
378 items

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 1 Stamps
 1900-1939

Series 2. Labels
5 items

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 2 Labels

Series 3. Postcards
997 items

Series 3. Subseries A. Ethnic

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 3 Postcards #1: Ethnic, factories
 1900-1950

Series 3. Subseries B. Factories

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 3 Postcards #1: Ethnic, Factories
 1900-1950

Series 3. Subseries C. Humorous

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 4 Postcards #2: Humorous
 1900-1950

Series 3. Subseries D. Laundries and laundering

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 5 Postcards #3: Laundries, laundering; products-soap, etc.
 1900-1950

Series 3. Subseries E. Products

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 5 Postcards #3: Laundries, laundering; products-soap, etc.
 1900-1950

Series 3. Subseries F. Equipment

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 6 Postcards #4: Products-equipment, sets, suffrage
 1900-1950

Series 3. Subseries G. Sets

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 6 Postcards #4: Products-equipment, sets, suffrage
 1900-1950

Series 3. Subseries H. Suffrage

Container Description Date
Box 1, Binder 6 Postcards #4: Products-equipment, sets, suffrage
 1900-1950

Series 3. Subseries I. Miscellaneous

Container Description Date
Box 9, Binder 36 Postcards #5: Miscellaneous
 1900-1950
Box 10, Folder 1 "Gee, I wish I had a girl": postcard showing a man doing dishes next to a line of laundry
Box 10, Folder 1 Ivory Soap: photograph of a woman and small boy next to a box of Ivory Soap
Box 10, Folder 1 Lessive de la Comete: large postcard in French
Box 10, Folder 1 Lessive Phenix: postcard advertising this French laundry
Box 10, Folder 1 Lessiveuse-Soleil: advertisement for a washing machine, in French
Box 10, Folder 1 Savon de la Tulipe: large postcard in French
Box 10, Folder 1 Savon la Coquille: postcard advertising this French laundry
Box 10, Folder 1 "Women often find marriage a hard way of earning their living" postcard
 1909

Series 4. Starch
220 items

Container Description Date
Box 2, Binder 7 Starch
 1870-1919
Box 10, Folder 2 Elastic Starch booklet, shaped like an Elastic Starch box

Series 5. Washboards and wringers
176 items

Container Description Date
Box 2, Binder 8 Washboards and wringers
 1867-1933
Box 10, Folder 3 Conqueror clothes wringer trade card: "How the…made Jones a happy man" (2 copies)
Box 10, Folder 3 Horse Shoe Brand Wringers catalog
 1923
Box 10, Folder 3 Metropolitan Washing Machine Company: "Price List of Repairs for Clothes Wringers"
Box 10, Folder 3 Sunnysuds electric washer and wringer trade card: "A remarkable washer…"
Box 10, Folder 3 The American Wringer Company catalog
 1893
Box 10, Folder 3 The Cleveland ball bearing wringer advertisement from the Peerless Manufacturing Company
Box 10, Folder 3 The Universal Clothes Wringer folding advertisement
Box 10, Folder 3 White Wood Products Flyer Washboard advertisement: "To meet the demand of economy"

Series 6. Washers and clotheslines
447 items

Container Description Date
Box 2, Binder 9 Washers A - C
 1873-circa 1935
Box 2, Binder 10 Washers D - L
 1873-circa 1935
Box 3, Binder 11 Washers M-R
 1873-circa 1935
Box 3, Binder 12 Washers S-Z, drying items
 1873-circa 1935
Box 10, Folder 4 "A new adventure of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", comic book with advertisement for Bendix automatic dryer and Snow White washer
Box 10, Folder 4 Bay State laundry cut-out advertisement in the shape of a horseshoe
Box 10, Folder 4 Dotty's Clothes Washer folding advertisement: "Different ways of using the washer…"
Box 10, Folder 4 Easy Washer booklet: "More value for your money in Easy…"
Box 10, Folder 4 General Electric Washer booklet: "It's more fun than work to wash this way"
Box 10, Folder 5 Greeting card with two Maytag washers pictured on the front
Box 10, Folder 4 Horton Improved Western Washer trade card showing little girl with kitten
Box 10, Folder 4 Little's Champion Washer: "We all use…"
Box 10, Folder 4 Mailed advertisement for Little's Champion Washer: "Joy to the world!", includes 3 flyers and 2 envelopes
Box 10, Folder 4 Maytag washer brochure: "Treasure Chest"
Box 10, Folder 4 Maytag Washers and Ironers trade card: "Make hard work easy"
Box 10, Folder 4 Michigan Galvanized Iron Washer advertisement: "Try me and you will buy me"
Box 10, Folder 4 Michigan Roller Bearing Rotary Washing Machine advertisement
Box 10, Folder 4 Norge 15 washing machine cut-out with sewing needles inside
Box 10, Folder 4 Photograph of a washing machine invented by Henry Hassenpflug
Box 10, Folder 4 Rotary Clothes Dryer Company price list
 1940 Jan 1
Box 10, Folder 4 Savage washer and dryer brochure: "The new wringerless Savage…"
Box 10, Folder 4 Speed Queen washer brochure: "The washer with a trouble-free future!"
Box 10, Folder 4 Syracuse Washing Machine Corporation booklet: "The Easy Vacuum Electric Washing Machine"
Box 10, Folder 4 The Banner clothes washer cut-out advertisement in the shape of a butterfly
Box 10, Folder 4 The Spotless Washing Machine brochure
Box 10, Folder 4 Washer advertisement from Hill's Hardware and Sporting Goods in the shape of a fan with a photograph of Charles Lindbergh and the "Spirit of St. Louis" on the front
Box 10, Folder 4 Washing machine salesman and customer: "New easy Spindrier…"
Box 10, Folder 4 Western Electric Washing Machine brochure: "Blue Monday"

Series 7. Soaps
2134 items

Container Description Date
Box 3, Binder 13 Soaps A - B
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 3, Binder 14 Soaps B - Bell
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 4, Binder 15 Soaps C - E
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 4, Binder 16 Soaps F - G
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 4, Binder 17 Soaps H - K
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 4, Binder 18 Soaps L - N
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 5, Binder 19 Soaps O - R
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 5, Binder 20 Soaps S
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 5, Binder 21 Soaps - Soapine
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 5, Binder 22 Soaps T - Z
 circa 1810-circa 1950
Box 10, Folder 8 20-mule-team Borax Soap trade card showing woman's face with caption: "What is it? I wonder-"
Box 10, Folder 8 Borax booklet: "The Magic Crystal", with drawing of "The Borax Girl" on the cover
Box 10, Folder 8 Brussels Soap booklet: "It’s Economical"
Box 10, Folder 8 Excelsior Indelible Ink: offer to sell recipes, including recipe for Soft Soap
Box 10, Folder 8 Fairbanks Santa Claus Soap advertisement: "Birds of a feather flock together"
Box 10, Folder 8 Goblin Soap coupon
 1917
Box 10, Folder 8 Gold Soap premium catalog
Box 10, Folder 8 Golden Soap trade card showing a man stealing soap from a safe
Box 10, Folder 8 Good-Will Soap broadside for a coaster wagon premium
Box 10, Folder 8 Good-Will Soap broadside showing a wagon
Box 10, Folder 8 Good-Will Soap wrappers premium catalog
Box 10, Folder 8 Good-Will soap wrappers premium catalog: "Gifts for Good-Will Coupons"
Box 10, Folder 9 Harper's Young People, Vol. 5, No. 211, (Clippings p 1-4, 17-32) (soap advertisements)
 1883 Nov 13
Box 10, Folder 7 Ivory Soap: "Washing Day", framed greeting card illustrated by Maud Humphrey showing a bar of Ivory Soap in the foreground
Box 10, Folder 8 L.I. Fisk and Company's soap advertisement: "All Soaps Bearing our name…"
Box 10, Folder 8 Lenox Soap advertisement showing a man standing next to a life-sized cut-out of a women using a washtub and washboard
Box 10, Folder 8 "Lessiveuse-Laveuse Tante Catherine": French cut-out advertisement
Box 10, Folder 8 Lux soap trade card: "Why don’t they use Lux?"
Box 10, Folder 6 Miscellaneous soap trade cards (9)
Box 10, Folder 8 Nine O'Clock Washing-Tea 5 cent coupon
 1915
Box 10, Folder 8 "Rub-No-More" advertisement showing mother elephant washing her baby
Box 10, Folder 8 Schultz's Star Soap advertisement featuring a rebus puzzle competition
 1887-1888
Box 10, Folder 8 Schultz's Star Soap advertisement featuring a rebus puzzle competition
 1888-1889
Box 10, Folder 7 Snow Boy washing powder advertisement (color photograph)
Box 10, Folder 7 Soapine advertisement from the Kendall Manufacturing Company (color photograph)
Box 10, Folder 8 "Vexation" no buttons trade card showing three frogs

Series 8. Ammonia, bleach, bluing and crystals
169 items

Container Description Date
Box 6, Binder 23 Ammonia, bleach, bluing, crystals
 1915-1936, undated
Box 10, Folder 10 American Blue cardboard advertisement from the American Bluing Compnay in Buffalo, New York
Box 10, Folder 10 Bengal Blue larger trade card showing a case of Bengal Blue
Box 10, Folder 10 Wiggle Stick Blue folding advertisement

Series 9. Covers, billheads and letterheads
371 items

Container Description Date
Box 6, Binder 24 Covers #1
 circa 1865-circa 1960
Box 6, Binder 25 Covers #2 (long covers as well)
 circa 1865-1961
Box 10, Folder 11 American Laundry invoice
 1908 May 4
Box 10, Folder 11 Conant's Steam Laundry Invoice
 1889 Jun 19
Box 10, Folder 11 Concord Steam Laundry invoice
 1893 November 22
Box 10, Folder 11 Edison Electric Company electricity bill with envelope
 1921 Sep 1
Box 10, Folder 11 Fidelity Steam Laundry invoice
 1909
Box 10, Folder 11 Jonas L. Knoll stationery
 1890s
Box 10, Folder 11 Knoll's Double Washers: order from C.F. Nichols to Mrs. Jonas L. Knoll
 1903 Aug 3
Box 10, Folder 11 The Victor Manufacturing Company notification of new products
 1923 Mar 27

Series 10. Blotters, advertising calendars and laundries
186 items

Container Description Date
Box 6, Binder 26 Duplicates, miscellaneous (blotters, baskets, clothes pins, laundries, needles, wax), ink
 1835-circa 1945
Box 10, Folder 12 Farmington Steam Laundry advertisement
Box 10, Folder 12 J. Ward & Company Laundry Furniture Depot catalog
Box 10, Folder 12 Killip Laundering Company cut-out advertisement in the shape of a laundry bag, with sewing needles inside
Box 10, Folder 12 "Laundry Work Wanted" advertisement from Katherine McCleary
Box 10, Folder 12 Lewandos Cleansers Dyers Launderers booklet
Box 10, Folder 12 Littleton Laundry cardboard advertisement in the shape of a gun: "Sta*Nu process" with a note to listen to "Gunsmoke" on CBS radio
Box 10, Folder 12 Self-service laundry advertising card: "Same day service. Didies a specialty"

Series 11. Dyes, irons, and lye
210 items

Container Description Date
Box 7, Binder 27 Dyes, irons, lye
 1873-1924
Box 10, Folder 13 Glide-Tex Double Feature Pressing Mitt advertisement: "Follow these three simple steps"
Box 10, Folder 13 Jazz Dye Soap advertisement: "In fine powder just the shade you like"
Box 10, Folder 13 Lewando's French Dye House calendar
 1884
Box 10, Folder 13 Lewis' 98% Lye folding advertisement: "The strongest and purest lye made"
Box 10, Folder 13 Pebble-tuft Scatter Rug advertisement: "Guaranteed Washable and Colorfast", with separate washing instructions
Box 10, Folder 13 Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company booklet: "The truth about a lye"
Box 10, Folder 13 Pres Kloth steam press folding advertisement: "Easier, safer, better" (torn)

Series 12. Ethnic
280 items

Container Description Date
Box 7, Binder 28 Ethnics, patriotic, miscellaneous
 1880s

Series 13. Laundry related booklets
33 items

Container Description Date
Box 7, Binder 29 Laundry guides, catalogs, soap making ,etc.
 circa 1855-1952
Box 10, Folder 14 "Alice in Launderland" booklet
Box 10, Folder 15 "Cloe Spin and Her Happy Family" coloring book
 1955
Box 10, Folder 16 "Key to washing fine fabrics" folding booklet
Box 10, Folder 16 Richmond Cedar Works catalog, with postcard and letter from the company
 1926
Box 10, Folder 16 Thor Automagic Washer booklet: "How to make life easier…"
 1945

Series 14. Photographs
48 items

Container Description Date
Box 7, Binder 30 Photographs
 1895-circa 1950, undated
Box 14X, Folder 4 Commercial laundry: photograph of the interior
Box 14X, Folder 1 Eclipse Laundry, Zanesville, Ohio: photograph and ruler
Box 14X, Folder 2 Fuller Laundry Company's horse drawn carts
Box 14X, Folder 6 General Electric washing machine factory during World War II
Box 14X, Folder 5 Laundry in western Massachusetts
 circa 1890
Box 14X, Folder 3 "The Electric Shop": photograph of the exterior showing a washing maching in the front window
Box 10, Folder 17 "Washing camp", photographed by J.A.Palmer, Aiken, South Carolina (no. 146)

Series 15. Mechanicals, metamorphic, die-cut and valentines
179 items

Container Description Date
Box 8, Binder 31 Mechanical, metamorphic, die cuts, valentines
 1907-1924, undated
Box 10, Folder 18 Boraxine cut-out advertisement showing a girl washing her doll
Box 10, Folder 18 Chocolat Senez-Sturbelle: Three kittens with caption "Lavage des mitaines"
Box 10, Folder 18 Crystal White Family Soap cut-out advertisement of boy peering over fence
Box 10, Folder 18 Dingman Soap cut-out showing a girl with her hand across her forehead
Box 10, Folder 18 Electric Spark White Soap cut-out advertisement showing a woman holding a bar of soap
Box 10, Folder 18 Fab advertisement showing a cut-out with bubbles
Box 10, Folder 18 Fairy Soap paper dolls (2)
Box 10, Folder 18 Fischer's Ball Blue cut-out advertisement showing children with a cart pulled by a goat
Box 10, Folder 19 Green bunny foldout display
Box 10, Folder 18 Larkin Soaps advertisement showing a chautauqua desk cut-out with poem on reverse side
Box 10, Folder 19 Pink bunny foldout display
Box 10, Folder 18 Pink Wash Tub cut out with a heart on the washboard, inscribed "To Clara from Clement" on the back
Box 10, Folder 18 Santa Claus Soap cut-out, manufactured by Fairbank's
Box 10, Folder 18 Sunlight Soap cut-out advertisement showing children in a cart pulled by two goats
Box 10, Folder 18 Valentine card "I want to im-'press' you!"
Box 10, Folder 18 Woman using a washboard, standing next to a cat and a man with a cane and top hat

Series 16. Matchbook covers, wax (paraffin) and puzzles
80 items

Container Description Date
Box 8, Binder 32 Matches, miscellaneous non-soap or product-related puzzles, wax
 1940s
Box 15X, Folder 2 Lux Soap jigsaw puzzle depicting Longfellow's Wayside Inn, original Lux Soap bag that the puzzle came in, and a photograph of the assembled puzzle
Box 10, Folder 20 Parowax Paraffin advertisement: "Less Labor in the Laundry"

Series 17. Miscellaneous booklets, broadsides and pamphlets
89 items

Container Description Date
Box 8, Binder 35 Miscellaneous booklets
 1936-1941, undated
Box 8, Binder 33 Miscellaneous booklets, broadsides, pamphlets
 1862-1937, undated

Series 18. Miscellaneous advertising trade cards, ephemera and photographs
219 items

Container Description Date
Box 8, Binder 34 Advertising trade cards, etc.
 1870s-1950s
Box 10, Folder 21 Greeting card illustrated by Maud Humphrey showing young girl painting at an easel

Series 19. Miscellaneous non-trade card advertising
49 items

Container Description Date
Box 9, Binder 38 Miscellaneous non-trade card
 1872-1962

Series 20. Shapiro acquisition and research

Container Description Date
Box 9, Binder 37 Articles, stories, reprints, catalogs, etc.
Box 9, Binder 39 Grey Lundermac notebook
Box 9, Binder 40 Red binder
Box 11, Folder 1 Correspondence, advertising, business cards, invoices and receipts, photocopies
 2001-2006, undated
Box 11, Folder 2 Ebay listings of laundry collectibles (printed over)
 2010 Feb 17
Box 11, Folder 3 Invitation,enclosed in large envelope, to the Textile and Costume Society to visit the laundry collection, from the owners.
 2000 Mar 21
Box 11, Folder 4 New Hampshire Antiques Monthly, Vol. 7
 2001 Jul
Box 11, Folder 5 Washday Collectibles catalog, by Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell
 2000

Series 21. Procter & Gamble history
65 items

Container Description Date
Box 9, Binder 41 P&G notebook 2
 1905-1989
Box 10, Folder 22 Photocopies of Procter & Gamble clippings and correspondence (7 pages)
 1983-1991

Series 22. Large format advertising
209 items

Series 22. Subseries A. Articles from periodicals

Container Description Date
Box 12X, Folder 1 "American Industries, no. 24: Soap Manufacture" (article about B.T. Babbit's soap works in New York City), Scientific American, v.XLI no. 22, p. 340
 1879 Nov 29
Box 12X, Folder 1 "American Industries, no. 49: The Starch Manufacture" (article about T. Kingsford & Son in Oswego, New York), Scientific American, v.XLIII no. 3, p.34
 1880 Jul 17
Box 12X, Folder 1 "Clip-it: How to take care of blankets", Southwest Edition, p.12
Box 12X, Folder 1 "Department of useful arts" (article about a washing machine), Boston Weekly Magazine, v.3 no. 42, p.166
 1805 Aug 10
Box 12X, Folder 1 National Laundry Journal, vol. 11 no. 3
 1884 Feb 1

Series 22. Subseries B. Music, calendars and miscellaneous material

Container Description Date
Box 12X, Folder 2 "Chinese Laundry Blues" sheet music by Jack Cottrell
 1932
Box 12X, Folder 2 Color picture of a dog washing clothes, with the poems "Indignant" and "The Trespasser" on the reverse
Box 12X, Folder 2 Fairbanks fairy soap calendar showing a girl in a general's uniform, with a flyer on the reverse advertising the six calendar designs for 1900, illustrated by Frances Brundage
 1900
Box 12X, Folder 2 Fairbanks fairy soap calendar showing a girl in a cavalry uniform, with a flyer on the reverse advertising the six calendar designs for 1900, illustrated by Frances Brundage
 1900
Box 12X, Folder 2 Fairbank's Fairy Calendar 1901, from N.K. Fairbank Company (Chicago, Illinois)
 1901
Box 12X, Folder 2 Fairies Starch bag with the slogan "'Makes ironing easy'"
Box 12X, Folder 2 Ivory Soap calendar with the slogan "Everybody who uses Ivory Soap believes that it is good for everything" (4 large sheets attached with twine), illustrated by C.M. Burd
 1920
Box 12X, Folder 2 "The Irish Washerwoman" sheet music, arranged by Mort H. Glickman
 1935
Box 12X, Folder 2 "Wash Tub Blues" sheet music by Arthur James and Frank Wright
 1920
Box 12X, Folder 2 "Wool Soap Two Step" sheet music by Victoria Morris
 1900

Series 22. Subseries C. Toys, cut-out dolls and shirt boards

Container Description Date
Box 12X, Folder 3 "Baby Sparkle Plenty" paper dolls
 1948
Box 12X, Folder 3 Cut-out automobile from the Careful Laundry and Dry Cleaning workers
Box 12X, Folder 4 Cut-out of little boy covered in snow
Box 12X, Folder 3 Cut-out play and laundry scene in green folder (no name or title)
Box 12X, Folder 3 Dif Soap Zyp-Arrow gun target
Box 12X, Folder 3 Duro decals entitled "chores of the week"
Box 12X, Folder 4 Hudson's Soap baby face cut-outs (2 pages)
Box 12X, Folder 3 "Katy Kare 'n' Willie Ware" color-in shirt boards (7)
Box 12X, Folder 4 Rub-No-More set of elephant cut-outs (4 pages)
Box 12X, Folder 3 Snow White themed advertising booklet for Bendix automatic washers
Box 12X, Folder 4 York City Laundry shirt board with cut-out doll showing a Mama bear advertising Arrow Shirts

Series 22. Subseries D. Cardboard advertisements

Container Description Date
Box 12X, Folder 4 York City Laundry shirt board with cut-out doll showing a young girl advertising Arrow Shirts
Box 12X, Folder 5 Easy Electric Washer handmade advertisement
Box 12X, Folder 5 Gold Dust Scouring Cleanser advertisement
Box 12X, Folder 5 Lux Care advertisement: "Keep Dresses Lovely Longer…"
 1945
Box 12X, Folder 5 Lux toilet soap advertisement with image of Santa Claus
Box 12X, Folder 5 Maytag washing machine advertisement and stationery
Box 12X, Folder 5 Procter & Gamble advertisement for giant size White Naptha Soap
Box 12X, Folder 6 Rinso White advertisement: "Advice to June brides"
Box 12X, Folder 6 Rinso White advertisement "'Anti-sneeze Rinso…" (2 copies)
Box 12X, Folder 6 Rinso White advertisement "Here's your Rinso, whistle while you wash!" (2 copies)
Box 12X, Folder 6 Rinso White advertisement: "Now everybody's whistling it!"
Box 12X, Folder 6 Rinso White advertisement "Rin-So white, Rin-So bright" (2 copies)
Box 12X, Folder 6 Rinso White advertisement "Values for thrifty shoppers"
Box 12X, Folder 5 Swan soap advertisement: "4 Swell Soaps in 1"
Box 12X, Folder 5 Swan soap advertisement: "Free to every baby born in 1946",
 1946
Box 12X, Folder 5 Valvo Washing Powder display advertisement: "Now available for civilian use!"
Box 12X, Folder 5 Westinghouse: instructions for setting up washer and ironer displays (2 pages)
Box 12X, Folder 6 White Star Laundry Company's cardboard fan with finger hole, showing a woman and child praying

Series 22. Subseries E. Patents

Container Description Date
Box 13X, Folder 1 American patent for Henry Hassenpflug washing machines
 1885 Oct 7
Box 13X, Folder 1 American patent for Henry Hassenpflug washing machines
 1887 Apr 5
Box 13X, Folder 1 American patent for Henry Hassenpflug washing machines
 1890 May 13
Box 13X, Folder 1 Canadian patent for Henry Hassenpflug washing machines
 1888 Apr 24
Box 13X, Folder 1 Patent for James T Sargent washboards
 1892 Jan 19
Box 13X, Folder 1 Patent-right deed for Richardson's Little Washer
 1867 Jul 6

Series 22. Subseries F. Washing machine advertisements

Container Description Date
Box 13X, Folder 2 1900 Cataract Washer: "Nothing to do till next Monday"
 1920 Apr
Box 13X, Folder 2 1900 Electric Motor Washer: "2 cents a week pays laundry bill!"
Box 13X, Folder 3 1951 Whirlpool Automatic Washer: "Startling New Beauty! Unmatched Performance!"
 1959 Sep
Box 13X, Folder 2 1957 Bendix Duomatic: "Now at your fingertips..One-step automatic washing and drying"
 1957
Box 13X, Folder 2 ABC Electric Washer: "Free! Yes, absolutely FREE"
Box 13X, Folder 2 ABC Electric Washer: Instructions to dealers
Box 13X, Folder 2 Acme Washing Machine Company "Why your washing should be done at home"
Box 13X, Folder 2 Apex Wash-a-Matic: "Completely new completely automatic"
Box 13X, Folder 2 Bendix Duomatic washer and dryer: "New Bendix Duomatic does everything but iron for you!"
Box 13X, Folder 2 Easy Washer: "Why the Easy damp-dryer is replacing the wringer!"
Box 13X, Folder 2 General Electric Home Laundry Equipment: "Now a General Electric Washer"
 1931 Mar
Box 13X, Folder 3 Little's Champion Atmospheric Washer: "Joy to the world! Relief has come!"
Box 13X, Folder 3 Martin's Combined Ironing Table, Clothes Drier and Step Ladder
Box 13X, Folder 3 Maytag Aluminum Washer: "Everything a farm washer should be"
Box 13X, Folder 3 Maytag Washers-Ironers: "I never dared wash it until we got our Maytag!"
 1939 May
Box 13X, Folder 3 Putnam Self-Adjusting Clothes-Wringer
Box 13X, Folder 3 Straus and Schram Gold Medal Electric Washing Machine: "2 weeks trial…"
Box 13X, Folder 3 Westinghouse Automatic Washer: "Every house needs Westinghouse"
 1948 Sep
Box 13X, Folder 3 Whirlpool Automatic Washer: "For a Washday as Work-Free as Science can make it…"
 1949 Nov

Series 22. Subseries G. Soap advertisements

Container Description Date
Box 13X, Folder 4 20 Mule Team Borax: "Borax Sweet"
Box 13X, Folder 4 20 Mule Team Borax: "Natures Greatest Cleanser"
 1923 Apr
Box 13X, Folder 4 20 Mule Team Borax "Natures Greatest Cleanser"
 1923 Jun
Box 13X, Folder 4 20 Mule Team Borax: "Soap and water"
 1923 Oct
Box 14X, Folder 10 Acme Soap: "The Best Bar Soap Made"
 1895
Box 14X, Folder 10 B.T. Babbitt's Best Soap: "This famous family soap…"
 1901 Apr 18
Box 14X, Folder 9 Bonux advertisement in French: "Bonux lave si blanc qu'on voit la difference…"
Box 13X, Folder 4 Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap: "A Bright New Year", image of monkey sweeping the floor
 1902
Box 13X, Folder 4 Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap: "A Happy New Year Everyone", image of monkey on ice skates
Box 13X, Folder 4 Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap: "A Happy New Year Everyone", image of monkey sitting on top of Monkey Brand package
Box 13X, Folder 4 Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap: "Brightness brings Gook Luck…"
Box 13X, Folder 4 Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap: "For Happy, Bright reflection…"
Box 13X, Folder 4 Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap: Image of juggling monkey
Box 13X, Folder 4 Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap: "Makes Bright Reflections"
 1890 Mar 29
Box 13X, Folder 4 Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap: "The Twinkling stars Mohammedans say…"
 1901
Box 14X, Folder 10 Climalene: "Brighter colors whiter clothes"
 1936 Oct
Box 14X, Folder 10 Clorox: "Easy Housekeeping"
 1928
Oversize Folder 1XXX Dampfwaschanstalt "Hygíenía" XIV Graumanngasse Nr. 11-13 [Wien]. Artwork by Theo Matejko.
Dimensions: 37.5 inches x 49.5 inches
German
 circa 1919-1922
Box 14X, Folder 10 FAB: "How Mrs. Mabsy Came to Change Her Mind"
 1922 Oct
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Banner Products: Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Laundry Soap
 1909 Oct 22
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Fairy Soap: Evening fairy, illustrated by Maud Humphrey
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Fairy Soap: Morning fairy, illustrated by Maud Humphrey
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Fairy Soap: Night fairy, illustrated by Maud Humphrey
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Gold Dust: "Fairbank's Aids to easy Housework"
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Gold Dust: "Keep up with the times!"
 1905 Oct
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Gold Dust: Rockefeller and Aldrich Comic in "Puck", v. 58 no. 1496
 1905 Nov 1
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Gold Dust: "The wise housewife says…Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Laundry Soap"
 1910 Oct 20
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Gold Dust washing powder: "Gold Dust Plays With Housework"
 1922 May
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's Gold Dust washing powder: "Successful Canning, Cleanliness the watchword:
 1922 Jul
Box 13X, Folder 5 Fairbank's: N.K. Fairbank Company makes "Quality Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Laundry Soap"
Box 13X, Folder 6 Fels-Naptha: "Give your washing-machine the benefit of naptha"
 1922 Dec
Box 13X, Folder 6 Fels-Naptha: "Give your washing-machine the benefit of naptha"
 1922 Dec
Box 13X, Folder 6 Fels-Naptha: "How much do you pay to get clothes clean?"
 1924 Nov
Box 13X, Folder 6 Fels-Naptha: "Up goes the curtain on a really clean movie!"
 1928 May
Box 13X, Folder 6 Fels-Naptha: "Why do women believe in the extra goodness of Fels-Naptha?"
 1924 Dec
Box 14X, Folder 10 Gartside's Iron Rust Soap: "For Removing Iron Rust…"
Box 14X, Folder 10 Goblin Soap: "After the game when the dirt and grime…"
 1919 Nov 1
Box 14X, Folder 9 Henry E. Burger Soap advertisement
Box 14X, Folder 10 Hollis' Soap: "Hollis' original and genuine essence of soap…"
Box 13X, Folder 6 Hudson's Soap: "Arrest all Dirt…"
 1888 Dec 1
Box 13X, Folder 6 Hudson's Soap: "Hudson's Soap Insures the Luxury of Pure Clean Clothes"
 1889 Sep 7
Box 13X, Folder 6 Hudson's Soap: "Lawn White As Snow"
 1889 Dec 7
Box 13X, Folder 6 Ivory Soap: "Choose one of the pretty new colored or printed silks…"
 1919 Sep 4
Box 13X, Folder 6 Ivory Soap: "'Dear Ivory Soap: Your new low prices…"
 1921 Dec
Box 13X, Folder 6 Ivory Soap: "Here is a very interesting letter from the Philippines"
Box 13X, Folder 6 Ivory Soap: "Ivory Soap in the Laundry…"
Box 13X, Folder 6 Ivory Soap: "Keep the children's winter clothes spick and span…"
 1919 Oct
Box 13X, Folder 6 Ivory Soap: "Selling the first Ivory Soap - June, 1879"
 1912 Oct
Box 13X, Folder 6 Ivory Soap: "The peasant-women of France…"
Box 13X, Folder 6 Ivory Soap: "There is a sweetness about clothes…"
 1918 Aug 1
Box 14X, Folder 10 Jones' Chemical Washing Fluid: "New and Valuable Discovery!"
Box 13X, Folder 6 Kendall Manufacturing Company (Providence, R.I.): "French Laundry Soap, And Your Washing Made Easy"
Box 14X, Folder 10 Kirk's Flake White Soap: "Lightens Laundry Labor"
 1918 Oct
Box 13X, Folder 6 LaFrance: "Makes Clothes Wear Longer"
 1921 Dec
Box 13X, Folder 6 LaFrance: "Makes Dreams Come True"
 1921 Jun
Box 14X, Folder 10 Lifebuoy Soap: "Soap has double power…"
 1903 Feb 19
Box 14X, Folder 10 Linit: "She could not tell the difference"
 1924 Oct
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "26 Million Women wash all their fine things this way"
 1924 Jun
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "A Lux life means a long life…"
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Don't borrow or steal because your prettiest things are soiled!"
 1919 Jun
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "How to Launder Silks and Satins…"
 1918 Oct
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Just as pretty as the day you bought it"
 1919 Oct
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Lux for everything you wash yourself"
 1924 Jul 19
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "New improved Lux"
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Now - they're using Lux for washing dishes"
 1924 Jun
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Rubbing wears out your silk stockings…"
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Soft, shapely, unshrunken!"
 1919 Aug
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Tests made by great manufacturer of blankets…"
 1922 May
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "The Wedding Veil of the Princess Rospigliosi's great grandmother…"
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Their little woolens are sensitive…"
 1923 Feb
Box 13X, Folder 7 Lux: "Three reasons why women say - I can't keep house without it"
 1918 Aug
Box 14X, Folder 10 Mansfield Soap Manufactory: "Washing Made Easy"
Box 14X, Folder 10 OMO: "Perfect Whiteness"
 1929 Nov 25
Box 13X, Folder 7 Pearline: "Best by Test"
Box 13X, Folder 7 Pearline: "Child's-Play, a Family-Washing with Pearline"
 1892 Dec
Box 13X, Folder 7 Pearline: "Millions use it"
Box 13X, Folder 7 Pearline: "Pearline rinses more quickly…"
Box 13X, Folder 7 Pearline: "Pearline washes finest silk…"
Box 13X, Folder 7 Pearline: "Woolen Don’t's"
Box 14X, Folder 10 Pears: "By appointment to His Majesty the King…"
 1901
Box 14X, Folder 9 Persil advertisement in French: "Persil lave plus blanc!"
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "Big $50,000 Treasure Hunt…"
 1948
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "Buy Procter & Gamble's Vegetable Oil White Soap…"
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: Chipso "These richer suds loosen dirt without work…Chipso"
 1929
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "Clean clothes every day, with ease…"
 1922 Aug
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "If little Molly should be in an accident…"
 1922 Dec
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "It's New! It's Blue! It's Cheer!"
 1954
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "Now John goes to parties…"
 1929
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "Right much life in that soap"
 1928 Sep
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "She wears the cleanest clothes in town"
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "Soap Arithmetic"
 1922 Jun
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "Stationary Tubs or Wooden Wash Bench?"
 1920 Apr 22
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "The 2 Chief Causes of poor laundry results"
 1923 Mar
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: Tide "Right before your eyes - a Dishwashing Miracle!"
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "Would you rather wring by hand?"
 1920 Aug 5
Box 14X, Folder 7 Procter & Gamble: "You can believe your eyes! It's a Dishwashing Miracle!"
Box 14X, Folder 10 Quick Elastic :"Big Ironing Help"
Box 14X, Folder 7 Rinso: "16 leading Washing Machine Makers say Use Rinso"
 1924 Sep
Box 14X, Folder 7 Rinso: "Now let Rinso soak the dirt out!" 2 pages
 1924 May
Box 14X, Folder 7 Rinso: "The makers of these 38 leading washers recommend Rinso"
 1930 May
Box 14X, Folder 7 Rinso: "Wartime Thrift Special"
Box 14X, Folder 7 Rinso:"Whistle while you wash in '44…"
 1944
Box 14X, Folder 7 Rinso: "Whistle while you wash with Rinso"
 1945
Box 14X, Folder 10 RIT: "'Wonderful--Yes!"
 1918 Oct
Oversize Folder 1XXX Saponite: "Antiseptique Français pour Blanchissages, Nettoyages, Lessivages"
Dimensions: 40 inches x 55.5 inches
French
 circa 1890
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "For Domestic Pets"
 1906 May 26
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "For Rest and Comfort"
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "In Making Sunlight Soap…"
 1903 Sep 26
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "Less labour, Greater Comfort" with illustration of the "Deaf and Dumb Alphabet"
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "No extravagant claims are made…"
 1903 Oct 10
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "So Clean and White" (illustration in black and white)
 1901 Dec 14
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "So Clean and White" (illustration in color)
 1901
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "The Difference to You…"
 1903 Jan 17
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "To multiply pleasure…"
 1902
Box 14X, Folder 8 Sunlight Soap: "We wash all our clothes with Sunlight Soap"
Box 14X, Folder 10 Sunset Soap Dyes: "What's worth dyeing at all is worth dying well"
 1923
Oversize Folder 1XXX Suter: "Suter's Seifen Flocken. Suter, Moser & Co. A.G. Seifenfabrik, St. Gallen, [Switzerland]
Dimensions: 36.5 inches x 50.5 inches
German
 circa 1930s?
Box 14X, Folder 8 Swan Soap: "It Floats…"
 1900 Apr 14
Box 14X, Folder 8 Swan Soap: "The Favourite"
 1900 May 12
Box 14X, Folder 10 Swift's Pride Cleanser Soap Washing Powder: "Swift's Pride Soap is a scientifically made soap…"
 1911 Apr 8
Box 14X, Folder 8 Wool Soap: "Fall and Winter Woolens…"
 1908 Oct 22
Box 14X, Folder 8 Wool Soap: "Send for the Wool Soap calendar"
 1920 Dec
Box 14X, Folder 8 Wool Soap: "What every mother ought to know…"
 1920 Dec
Oversize Folder 1XXX Vigor: "Vigor est pour ma mère la meilleure lavandière."
Dimensions: 35.25 inches x 51 inches
French
 circa 1920s

Series 22. Subseries H. Non-laundry advertisements

Container Description Date
Box 14X, Folder 11 Bird's Custard Powder: "Crowned with Success"
 1901
Box 14X, Folder 11 Bird's Custard Powder: "Rival Cooks"
 1902
Box 14X, Folder 11 Dewar's Whisky: "The World's Desire"
 1902
Box 14X, Folder 11 The Youth's Companion for All the Family, v.90, no.8
 1916 Feb 24
Box 14X, Folder 11 Whistle (beverage): "In every tongue you hear folks say…", with illustration of Chinese man ironing clothes

Series 23. Miscellaneous and unusually sized items
5 items

Container Description Date
Box 15X, Folder 3 Large scrapbook, with a colorful bird on the cover, containing various collectable trade cards (fragile condition)
Box 15X, Folder 1 Pink dishtowel with slogan "I must remember to order White King Quick Dissolving Soap"
Box 15X Rubber-tipped dart that goes with the Dif-Zyp-Arrow Gun target in Binder 38
Box 15X Small blue scrapbook containing various trade cards, photographs, and advertisements
Box 15X The New Washday by Eleanor Ahern: "A handy how-to-do-it laundering book"
 1944