Avon Persian Wood Perfumed Talc
notes: label: Description
content: Cramps, headaches, body odor, acne—all things that came with menarche and “the monthlies.” Manufacturers and marketers saw girls and women as a lucrative market for products that could help alleviate aches and pains but also embarrassment.
label: Description
content: Advertisers told girls to worry about body odor. Products such as this Avon Persian Wood Perfumed Talc flooded the market and reinforced the message that sweet-smelling bodies were healthy and beautiful.
label: Description
content: Description: Flat-bottomed tall oval ferrous metal tin with an ivory colored plastic lid. The tin is painted or enameled red with gold designs and lettering and a chrome plated bottom.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0018.02
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0018.02
label: accession number
content: 1990.0018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: chrome plating (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 6 in; x 6.35 cm x 15.24 cm