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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer |
| Reference | 1989-8-77 |
| Library | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| Collection | The William H. Helfand Collection, 1989 |
| Date | c. 1885-1895 |
| Document Type | Trade Card |
| Theme(s) | Women's Health |
| Keywords | hair, dandruff, baldness, beauty |
| Additional Information | "Five attractive faces" from Japan, Holland, "dear America," Persia, and Spain, "differing widely in their graces," illustrate the virtues of Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer, a product that promised to thicken hair, restore gray hair to its original color, cure dandruff, and prevent baldness. Reuben P. Hall, its manufacturer, had obtained the formula, as he testified, from a destitute sailor whom he had befriended; the product contained sulfur and lead acetate as hair restoratives in addition to glycerin, boroglycerin, capsicum, rosemary, bay rum, and tea in a solution of 15 percent alcohol. William H. Helfand, from 'The Picture of Health: Images of Medicine and Pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection' (1991), p. 111. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's catalogue. |
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| Copyright | Philadelphia Museum of Art |