Name/Title
Frank Siddalls Soap Wooden BoxEntry/Object ID
1996.N.014Description
Wooden box with litho label under the lid:
FRANK SIDDALLS SOAP/
Does away with the Wash Boiler Nuisance. / A Soap used for ALL Washing Purposes /
No Boiling or Scalding! / No Soaking over Night! / Smooth Hands! / White Clothes! /
No Slop from the Boiler! / AND SO CHEAP! / The Fuel Saved / on wash day, / Pays for the Soap
Just Think / Clothes Washed Clean, Sweet and White IN LUKEWARM WATER / and hung out to dry WITHOUT BOILING or SCALDING a single piece! / Heat the WASH WATER in a TEA-KETTLE and follow EVERY LITTLE DIRECTION.
Missing label on the front stated it contained 36 bars.
The Frank Siddalls Soap Company was stablished by Mr. Siddall in 1873, over 30 years ago, and has been in contnuous operation since manufacturing the famous Frank Siddall Soap, a household commodity of unquestioned merit known throughout the country as the best of its kind and possessing a reputation established at a cost exceeding half a million dollars in cash and over 30 years of hard work and honest dealings...The factory of the Company is a complete one in every respect, size 80 x 150 feet...It is located by the Delaware River at Beach and Brown Streets, Philadelphia...present price of stock $1.25 per share...pays 8 per cent, annual dividends. March 2d, 1907 http://mattmg83.github.io/cynicalcapitalist/documents/[1907%20Panic]%20bank%20newsletter%20to%20customers.pdfCollection
Saddler Family CollectionDimensions
Height
6 inWidth
10-1/2 inLength
16-1/2 in
