Lifebuoy Health Soap

Advertisement for Lifebuoy Health Soap includes a comic strip “The Girl Nobody Wanted to Know (Especially in the Summertime).” In the first three panels two male tennis players discuss an attractive woman's body odor problem. In the fourth panel the woman, having overheard the discussion, is embarrassed. In the final panel, she is shown in a bathtub using Lifebuoy. Also includes a head shot of “Willis G. Johnson, Minneapolis business man” who endorses Lifebuoy. Finally, there is drawing of a box of Lifebuoy Soap.

Publication date: 1938-08-28

Size: 25 x 10.5 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• Lever Brothers Company--Products--1930-1940
• Soaps--1930-1940
• Sport clothes--1930-1940
• Tennis players--1930-1940
• Women--Physical characteristics--1930-1940
• Bathtubs & showers--1930-1940
• Body image--1930-1940
• Johnson, Willis G.
• Business people--American--Minnesota--Minneapolis--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 (August 28, 1938), p. 3

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg