J.A. Pozzoni's Complexion Powder [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

J.A. Pozzoni's Complexion Powder [inscribed]

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

St. Louis, Mo.

Language

English

Collection

Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Notes

Description

Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Depicts girl wearing a tattered straw hat. Suggests that by using this preparation a woman's face can look like a country girl's. Text on reverse side of card.

Caption

For delicacy, for purity and for improvement of the complexion, nothing equals Pozzoni's Powder...Imparts a brilliant transparency to the skin. Removes all pimples, freckles, and discolorations, and makes the skin delicately soft. This most Exquisite Toilet Preparation, the virtues of which have caused it to be in demand in all civilized countries, stands pre-eminent for producing a soft and beautiful skin. It is acknowledged by thousands of ladies, who have used it daily for many years, to be the only preparation that does not roughen the skin, burn, chap, or leave black spots in the pores, or produce other discolorations.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

10.6 x 7.5 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Women--Health and hygiene.
Cosmetics--Advertisements
Cosmetics
Girls
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Patent medicines
Skin