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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2024

 

ISSUE # 1231

A PEARLINE SIGN

REVEALED ON 72nd STREET

JUDITH BERDY

While waiting for the crosstown bus at 72nd Street and Second Avenue this morning I spotted this sign advertising Pearline.  Revealed when the building next to it was demolished this art was revealed.

All that remains is this portion of the advertisement.

Title

Modern cleanser : James Pyle’s pearline washing compound

Creator

Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, artist
 Description

Image of an advertisement for James Pyle’s pearline washing compound featuring a woman wearing a long floral dress hanging a sheet on a clothesline; stream and forest in background. Item originally owned by illustrator Curtis Wager-Smith 

The copy mentions “Intelligent women”. Can you imagine
this ad in our time?

The romanticized copy of sorting thru last years clothes, copy writers were at it at the turn of the 20th century.

Later the ads were more blunt and direct

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CREDITS:
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
JUDITH BERDY

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