Hudson's Dry Soap : for washing and scouring everything ... / [R.S. Hudson].

  • R.S. Hudson Limited.
Date:
[1880?]
  • Ephemera

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Description

Leaflet advertising Hudson's Dry Soap detergent. The front is a colour illustration showing women washing clothes in a stone bath in front of ancient ruins and trees, with a lake and mountians behind them, and a boat with a large box of the soap in the foreground.

Publication/Creation

[Liverpool] : [R.S. Hudson], [1880?]

Physical description

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 14 x 23 cm

Contributors

Biographical note

Robert Spear Hudson (d.1884) invented the first dry soap powder, "Hudson's Dry Soap" in 1837 in his small pharmacy in West Bromwich, England, moving to Liverpool in the 1880s. He advertised extensively, first locally and then nationally, as his business and use of his products grew. The firm was taken over by Lever Brothers Ltd. (now part of Unilever) in 1908.

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Title from illustration.

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    Closed stores
    EPH/169/20G

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