Lucky Tiger Magic Shampoo Dandruff Remover
date: label: date made
content: ca 1937
name: label: maker
content: Lucky Tiger Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Lucky Tiger Dandruff Remedy was first marketed around 1917 by the Lucky Tiger Dandruff Company of Kansas City, Mo. In the early 1920s, the company, now Lucky Tiger Remedy Company, was in the hands of Pleasant Stephen Harris, part owner of the successful Harris-Goar Company stores. The Lucky Tiger products were popular in barbershops, and in 1935 Harris trademarked the brand and began to market nationwide.
label: Description
content: Advertising in the 1950s emphasized sex appeal, including an offer for free Lucky Tiger Pin-Up Girl posters for the well-groomed man’s "Tiger Lair." Although the products became less popular after hair styles changed in the 1960s, Lucky Tiger brand is still available in 2012, and includes a line of "Barber Shop Classics."
label: Description
content: This bottle represents one of the earliest trademarked Lucky Tiger Products, dating between 1934 and 1940.
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: Missouri, Kansas City
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: Marketed to Men
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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: 1985.0481.329
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0481.329
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shampoo
label: Object Name
content: hair care product
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
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content: glass (container material)
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content: metal (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 24.4475 cm x 8.255 cm x 8.255 cm