1931 Print Ivory Palace Soap White Ivorydale Cincinnati Ohio Lye Lard FZ1 LHJ4 Photograph by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik

Photograph by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik

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This is an original 1936 black and white print ad for General Motors trucks and trailers

This is an original 1881 black and white wood engraving of the Wetterhorn and Weelhorn from Rosenlaui in Switzerland

specifically mentioning the Walcloth all-wool suit and Dubbelbilt suit Number 7072

1931 Print Ivory Palace Soap White Ivorydale Cincinnati Ohio Lye Lard FZ1 LHJ4 Photograph by Hugo Adolf BernatzikThis is an original 1931 halftone print of vats of Ivory soap in Ivorydale, Cincinnati, Ohio. The caption writes, "Out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. THe eighth verse of the forty fifth Psalm supplied the inspiration for the name of Ivory Soap, previously known as White Soap." When mixed with animal fat and water, lye forms a thick liquid, that when set and cured, becomes soap. Lye alone is incredibly dangerous and corrosive,