Prom Home Very Gentle Permanent Refill
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Prom Cosmetics
label: maker
content: Gillette Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
label: Description
content: For Bleached, Dyed, Tinted Hair. Hair with some natural curl or easy-to-wave hair.
label: Description
content: Prom Cosmetics, a division of the Gillette Company, sold this Prom Brand Home Permanent kit during the 1950s. The Prom kit came in three types, very gentle, regular, and super, and was promoted for being “self neutralizing” which simplified the home perming process. The Prom kit was heavily advertised on TV and radio and became one of the most popular home permanent brands of the 1950s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Beauty and Health
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Care and Enhancement
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alan & Elaine Levitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0460.129.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0460
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0460.129.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hair care product
label: Object Name
content: cosmetic
label: Object Name
content: permanent wave, refill
label: Object Type
content: Cosmetics
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 4 1/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 10.4775 cm x 12.065 cm x 4.445 cm