Advertisement for Sweet Georgia Brown skin bleaching creams: Museum Object and Cultural History
Advertisement for Sweet Georgia Brown skin bleaching creams: Date: ca. 1930. Created by: Sweet Georgia Brown, American. Type: advertisements.
The object in the museum catalogue
Color advertisment for Sweet George Brown skin lightening beauty treatments. The two advertised products are Skin Bleaching Cream and Lemon Cleansing Cream. The purpose of this advertisment was to act as a means for people to order these products. The following taglines are featured: "HAVE LIGHTER LOOKING SKIN"/HAVE THE SKIN MEN LOVE"/KNOW THE JOY OF A LIGHTER APPEARING COMPLEXION".
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1930
- Created by: Sweet Georgia Brown, American
- Type: advertisements
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/8 x 4 3/4 in. (20.6 x 12.1 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Advertising
- Topic: Beauty culture
- Topic: Colorism
- Object number: 2011.166.21
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The displayed image also has an explicit CC0 designation. The underlying object's rights statement is: Public domain Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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