Canthrox Granular Shampoo
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: H.S. Peterson & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Canthrox was sold by H. S. Peterson and Company of Chicago, Ill., from 1909 until the mid-1930s. The product was marketed to prevent dandruff, falling hair, and graying. Canthrox was always packaged in a tin box. In 1911 a tin of Canthrox, good for fifteen shampoos, cost fifty cents. It was advertised as a "pleasure and a delight," and would clean your hair "Completely, thoroughly and satisfactorily—yet easily and gently."
label: Description
content: The company claimed that hair shampooed with Canthrax would dry more quickly and streak-free. In the mid-to-late 1920s, this quick-drying quality was used to appeal to women with the new short haircuts, or "bobs." Canthrox would "Make the bob more becoming." Advertisements often appeared in newspaper ‘amusement’ sections alongside news of the latest movies and plays and the celebrities who had helped popularize the bobbed style.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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 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: Gift of Robert Grodanz, David's Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0138.139
label: accession number
content: 2002.0138
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0138.139
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shampoo
label: Object Name
content: hair care product
label: Other Terms
content: Cosmetics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.81 cm