Lady Wildroot Cream Hair Dressing
date: label: date made
content: ca 1951-1953
name: label: maker
content: Wildroot Company
notes: label: Description
content: Wildroot Hair Tonic was introduced by the Wildroot Company, Buffalo, N.Y., in 1911. Trademarked in 1932, the Wildroot brand was eventually bought out by Colgate-Palmolive in 1959. The hair tonic was primarily marketed as a dandruff remedy. Advertisements in the late 1940s and early 1950s asked, "Can your scalp pass the fingernail test?"
label: Description
content: This bottle of Cream Hair Dressing is from 1951 through 1953. It was often featured in Nancy Sasser’s "Buy-Lines" and a similar newspaper shoppers’ column called "Jesse’s Notebook" by Jesse de Both. Advertisements suggest Wildroot stopped selling their Lady Wildroot Line around the mid-1950s.
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: New York, Buffalo
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: 1985.0481.322
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0481.322
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hair dressing
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: 3 7/8 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm