Packer's All Healing Tar Soap: the Best for the Toilet, Bath, & Nursery : Cures Skin & Scalp Diseases
Collection:

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)

 

Alternate Title(s):

All Healing Tar Soap and Packer's Tar Soap

 

Contributor(s):

Packer Mfg. Co., issuing body.

Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lithographer.

 

Publication:

[New York?] : [Packer Mfg. Co.?], [1882]

 

Language(s):

English, Spanish

 

Format:

Still image

 

Subject(s):

Soaps, Tars -- therapeutic use

 

Genre(s):

Advertisements

 

Abstract:

Advertisement for Packer's All Healing Tar Soap. Card features a blue tinted illustration of a woman giving a sponge bath to a baby in a nursery. On the wall behind them is a picture of the back of a man's head with the caption, "What will he do with it? Shampoo with Packer's Tar Soap.".

 

Extent:

1 trade card : 14 x 9 cm

 

Technique:

chromolithograph, color

 

NLM Unique ID:

101702885

 

Permanent Link:

resource.nlm.nih.gov/101702885