Lucky Tiger Hair Tonic
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950-1955
name: label: maker
content: Lucky Tiger Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Lucky Tiger Dandruff Remedy was first marketed around 1917 by the Lucky Tiger Dandruff Company of Kansas City, Mo. In the early 1920s, the company, now Lucky Tiger Remedy Company, was in the hands of Pleasant Stephen Harris, part owner of the successful Harris-Goar Company stores. The Lucky Tiger products were popular in barbershops, and in 1935 Harris trademarked the brand and began to market nationwide.
label: Description
content: Advertising in the 1950s emphasized sex appeal, including an offer for free Lucky Tiger Pin-Up Girl posters for the well-groomed man’s "Tiger Lair." Although the products became less popular after hair styles changed in the 1960s, Lucky Tiger brand is still available in 2012, and includes a line of "Barber Shop Classics."
label: Description
content: This bottle of Lucky Tiger Hair Tonic was likely produced in the early to mid-1950s. Around 1949 the company began a marketing campaign that touted the "3-purpose Hair Tonic." Purpose one was to "wake up the scalp;" purpose two was to "kill the germs that cause dandruff;" and purpose three was to "groom hair perfectly." While the packaging has changed over the years, Lucky Tiger 3-Purpose Hair Tonic is still available in 2012.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Kansas City
label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
topic: label: web subject
content: Hair Care Products
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Marketed to Men
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content: Beauty and Health
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Care and Enhancement
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content: Hair Care Products
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0475.192
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0475.192
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hair tonic
label: Object Name
content: hair care product
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: alcohol 55% (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: sodium salicylate (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ozyquinoline phosphate (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 5 7/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 14.9225 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, bottle: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.175 cm