Ivory Soap Advertising Collection

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Ivory Soap Advertising Collection

1883-1998

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Print advertisements covering almost the entire history of Ivory Soap, including advertisements designed by artists including Jesse Wilcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and J. C. Leyendecker.

10 Cubic feet (30 boxes)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11663297

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935

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Jessie Willcox Smith was born in Philadelphia in 1863. She originally studied to be a kindergarten teacher and actually served in that capacity before accidentally discovering a propensity for drawing. She's one of the few illustrators I've profiled who wasn't an astonishing child prodigy. She was probably around 20 before she took up a pencil. Initial studies were quickly replaced with formal courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she learned from Thomas Eakins, and others. ...

Procter & Gamble Company.

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Leyendecker, J. C. (Joseph Christian), 1874-1951

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Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

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Illustrator; b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1871; d. 1954. From the description of Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott files, 1896-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973996 From the description of Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott photographs, [19--]-[19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974358 Illustrator; Philadelphia, Penn. Died 1954. From the description of Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott papers, 1848-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565413 ...