Dreft (Procter & Gamble)

Advertisement for Dreft by Procter & Gamble includes a photo comic strip praising the virtues of Dreft soap flakes. In the first panel, she phones a friend and invites her to see how well Dreft works on silk stockings. The second panel has the woman displaying cleaned silk stocking while the friend is amazed at the amount of Dreft’s soap suds. The final panel has the two women admiring a pair of Dreft-cleaned silk stockings. Also includes an image of a box of Dreft, and a drawing comparing between a Dreft box with two boxes of generic soap flakes.

Publication date: 1939-06-11

Size: 25.5 x 21 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• Hosiery--1930-1940
• Procter & Gamble Company--Products--1930-1940
• Soaps--1930-1940
• Women--Clothing & dress--1930-1940
• Boxes--1930-1940
• Telephones--1930-1940
• Silk--1930-1940

Genre(s):

• Advertisements

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (June 11, 1939), p. 5

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg