Lady Wildroot Cream Hair Dressing
- Description
- Wildroot Hair Tonic was introduced by the Wildroot Company, Buffalo, N.Y., in 1911. Trademarked in 1932, the Wildroot brand was eventually bought out by Colgate-Palmolive in 1959. The hair tonic was primarily marketed as a dandruff remedy. Advertisements in the late 1940s and early 1950s asked, "Can your scalp pass the fingernail test?"
- This bottle of Cream Hair Dressing is from 1951 through 1953. It was often featured in Nancy Sasser’s "Buy-Lines" and a similar newspaper shoppers’ column called "Jesse’s Notebook" by Jesse de Both. Advertisements suggest Wildroot stopped selling their Lady Wildroot Line around the mid-1950s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1951-1953
- maker
- Wildroot Company
- place made
- United States: New York, Buffalo
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- plastic (container material)
- paper (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 7/8 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- 1985.0481.322
- catalog number
- 1985.0481.322
- accession number
- 1985.0481
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sidney Glaser
- subject
- Hair Care Products
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Hair Care Products
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Care and Enhancement
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Health
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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