Packer's Healing Tar Soap
name: label: maker
content: Packer Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this metal container read “PACKERS’ / HEALING / TAR SOAP” and “THE / PACKER / MFG. CO. INC. / NEW YORK / U.S.A.” and “REG. U.S. TRADE MARK PATENT OFF.” and “MADE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” and “PURE AS THE PINES” and “SHAMPOOING / BATH / TOILET / NURSERY” and “BOOKLET WITH INSTRUCTIONS ENCLOSED.”
label: Description
content: Daniel F. Packer (1825-1904) was born in Mystic, Ct., followed the gold rush to California, and introduced his pine tar soap to market in 1869. That firm is still in business, trading as Packer’s Pine.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: Bathing
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content: Beauty and Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.1453
label: catalog number
content: 293320.1453
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: soap
label: Object Name
content: personal hygiene product
label: Other Terms
content: Personal Hygiene Products
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 6.985 cm x 1.905 cm