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Pears' soap
Bib ID 8146751
Format PicturePicture [still image, text, sheet]
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Description [Sydney] : [Rexona Pty Ltd?], 1988 
1 poster : colour ; 60.4 x 37.5 cm 
Summary

Reproduction of a vintage Pears poster showing a small girl being helped to wash her hands in a white basin placed on a chair. Print released in 1988.

Biography/History

"Over a centuary ago, A & F Pears began laying the foundations of modern advertising with the first of a long series of delighful and entertaining Publicity Posters that accurately reflected the changing fashions and tastes of the period.The Second Series of Limited Edition prints faithfully reproduced by Pears offers an enticing and nostalgic glimpse of the Advertising Art of a bygone era."--printed at the foot.

Notes

Caption title.

"A Pears advertising handbill of about 1893 with the nursery rhyme title 'This is the way we wash our hands'"

PIC Poster Drawer 331 copy Digital master available National Library of Australia

Subjects Advertising -- Soap -- England -- Posters.  |  Soap -- Posters.  |  Girls -- Posters.  |  Posters, Australian.  |  Australia -- Posters.  |  Australian
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