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Creator:
Lever Brothers Ltd
Title(s):
Sunlight Soap in war.
Additional Title(s):
African incident
Published/Created:
[England] : [Lever Brothers Ltd.], [between 1884 and 1899?].
Physical Description:
2 cards : mutlicolored printed paperboard ; 10 x 18.5 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Acq 201943g
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Date of publication based on date in which Sunlight Soap was introduced by the Lever Brothers and the dates of the Mahdist War that seems to be referenced in the text.
BAC: British Art Center copy card with printed text numbered pages 1 and 3 is torn into two pieces.
These two paperboard cards are each printed on one side with illustrations of two figures on horseback, leaping over a stone fence, with a weapon in one hand and a square shield in the other. The square shields feature the text "Sunlight Soap, no waste of money." The other side of each paperboard card is printed with a numbered page of text. The two cards are partially cut with a thin slit that allows them to be interlocked at the center to create a standing
Subject Terms:
Dervishes -- Sudan.
Egypt -- History -- 19th century.
Soap.
Sudan -- History -- 1881–1899.
Form/Genre:
Advertisements
Chromolithographs
Die cutting
Paperboard
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