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Title: Darkie Brand toothpaste: Gets teeth their whitest!.
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Alternative Title: Darkie Brand toothpaste.
Type of Resource: still image
Genre: Image
Drawings
Prints
Advertisements
Date Created: 1900s
Physical Description: 1 side
Language(s): English
Identifier: DP0015463 (IID)
Description: Metal sign of Darkie Toothpaste, black and white image of a black male in top hat, shirt & bowtie, with green background. "Darkie" is a toothpaste brand of Hawley & Hazel Chemical Company. Established in Shanghai in 1933 and later based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hawley & Hazel was acquired in 1985 by the US corporation Colgate-Palmolive. The date of this sign is unknown.
Digital Reproduction Specifications: Digitized by the University of Central Florida Libraries. Jpeg and Jpeg2000 images were derived from 400 dpi tiffs scanned on a Copibook scanner.
Subject(s): Blacks
Toothpaste
Caricature
Advertising
Advertisement
Business
Marketing
African Americans in art
African Americans -- Collectibles
Darkie Toothpaste
Black Americana
Held by: University of Central Florida Libraries, Special Collection & University Archives
Links: http://library.ucf.edu/about/departments/special-collections-university-archives/
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015463
Use and Reproduction: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. For permission to reproduce images and/or for copyright information contact Special Collections & University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, FL 32816, (407) 823-2576.
Host Institution: UCF
Is Part Of: African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection, 1794-2010.
UCF Special Collections Manuscripts - 5th Floor -- CFM2009_02
The Carol Mundy Collection Finding Aid