Direct Sales Cosmetics Companies
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Wise, Brownie Humphrey, 1913-1991
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content: Brownie Wise Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1958-1969, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0509, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 4: Direct Sales Cosmetics Companies, circa 1958-1969. Wise's business activities in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a co-founder and consultant in direct selling cosmetics enterprises also are well documented.  Companies include Cinderella (1958-59), and Vivian Woodard (1960-62), Carissa (1963), Aloe Vera (1966-68), Trivera (1967-68), and Sovera (1967-69). Organized files include sales handbooks and dealer/distributor literature written by Wise, correspondence, reports and recommendations for clients, samples of advertising and marketing materials, and sales force newsletters.