Beautiful Hair Breck Hairdress For Men
date: label: date made
content: ca 1956
name: label: maker
content: John H. Breck, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: John H. Breck established his hair care business in Springfield, Mass., around 1910. He is credited with introducing the first pH-balanced liquid shampoo in 1930. The famous "Breck Girl" portraits, used in company advertising for forty years, were originally created by Springfield artist Charles Sheldon. Later Breck Girls included future celebrities such as Kim Basinger, Cybil Shepard, Jacquelyn Smith, and Christie Brinkley. Today (2012) the Breck product line is owned by Dollar Tree of Chesapeake, Va.
label: Description
content: Breck Hairdress was introduced in the early 1950s and Breck Hairdress For Men appears in newspaper ads in 1956.
label: Description
content: This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Springfield
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: Hair Care and Enhancement
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content: Beauty and Health
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content: Hair Care Products
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Glaser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0481.254
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0481.254
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shampoo
label: Object Name
content: hair care product
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 2 in x 1 in; 11.1125 cm x 5.08 cm x 2.54 cm