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Hoyt's German cologne
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The Jay T. Last Collection of personal care prints and ephemera contains approximately 865 printed items related to grooming and personal care in the United States from approximately 1832 to 1931, with the bulk of the content dating from 1860 to 1900. Most items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. The collection deals with products and services relating to grooming, cleansing, and preserving one's hair, scalp, skin, or teeth to promote individual hygiene or to beautify one's appearance. Materials focus on consumer goods or acts of assistance that do not require medical direction to purchase or use. Such products include cosmetics, hair oils, perfumes, razors, shaving creams, shampoos, skin lotions, talcum powder, toothpaste, tooth powder, brushes, combs, hair pins, and wigs. Such services include barbers, hairdressers, wigmakers, and styling salons. As graphic materials, the collection highlights developing techniques and trends in printmaking while documenting the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Image of an advertisement for German cologne sold by E.W. Hoyt & Company of Lowell, Massachusetts; a boy writes the advertising text on a brick wall while a girl stands beside him watching with a doll in her arms; large bottle of cologne on top of a rock surrounded by flowers at left.
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