Sunlight soap : a child can use it / Lever Brothers Ltd.

A nest egg is very convenient at times ... : save money in the wear and tear of costly fabric by using Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.

White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.

It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.

Dame Trot : to market, to market went little Dame Trot, Sunlight Soap for mother the pretty maid got... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].

A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.

You need not open the door so frequently for the doctor if you would always use Sunlight Soap, Lifebuoy Soap ... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].

Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].

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Booklet showing views around Port Sunlight and in the soap factories and workers' housing. This includes a dental surgery and a doctor's surgery, social activities and a maternity wing with nurses. Glycerine and cattle food manufacture is also featured.

48 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 21 x 26 cm

The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Lifebuoy Soap ('Let Lifebuoy protect your family's health! 1935?), Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap (for hands and bath), Lifebuoy's 'The game of clean hands and dirty hands' board game, Wright's Coal Tar Soap, D.W. Gibbs's Superfine Cold Cream Soap (1901? : "a marvellous remedy for eczema"), Vinolia Soap for sensitive skins (1892?), Plantol Soap (free from animal fats), Vaseline Soap, Soft Soap (Palmer & Co., Ltd., 1903).

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Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Brooke's "Monkey Brand" Soap (Lever Brothers Limited), Hudson's Omo.

Detergents ephemera. Box 1.

The sunlight year book for 1898 : a treasury of useful information of value to all members of the household... : also story by Conan Doyle.

Bookmark printed in dark blue ink on white card, an illustration of Tower Bridge and the Tower of London at the top, advertising Lever Brothers' Sunlight laundry soap, Aitchison & Co.', opticians (Fleet Street, Poultry and the Strand), Beetham's (NOT Beecham's) Glycerine and cucumber for the skin, Birkbeck Bank (Southampton Buildings) and Joseph Gillott's pens.

Laundry soaps ephemera. Box 3.

Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.

Promotional magazine insert for Sunlight Soap, possibly from the 1920s. The front has a colour illustration of a very large black woman in red headscarf, purple dress and white apron loading the laundry she has just done onto a basket held by a small black boy above his head. They are standing in a green field with a line of clothes drying behind them. The detergent requires "no rubbing, no boiling".

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

The adventures of Lifebuoy Larry

31 pages : illustrations (color) ; 17 x 22 cm.

Lifebuoy Larry in the jungle! / [with the compliments of Lever Brothers Limited ; illustrated by Jack Grandfield].

Die-cut card figure of a young girl in a fur-trimmed red coat and hat standing on snow, holding a raised cane in her right hand. Text on back.

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The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Detergents ephemera. Box 1.

The sunlight year book for 1898 : a treasury of useful information of value to all members of the household... : also story by Conan Doyle.

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The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Detergents ephemera. Box 1.

The sunlight year book for 1898 : a treasury of useful information of value to all members of the household... : also story by Conan Doyle.

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