Format: Thirteen (13) chromolithograph leaflets with letterpress, sizes range from 16.2 x 10.8cm to 20.6 x 13.1cm.

Collection of double-sided advertising leaflets for soaps and cleaning products manufactured by the Lever Brothers at their Port Sunlight facility, Chesire, UK.

Brands represented are Swan White Floating Soap (x2), Lux Soap (x2), Lifebuoy Soap (x3), Sunlight Soap (x5), and Brooke’s Monkey Brand Soap (x1).

Lever Brothers was a British firm founded in 1885 who invested in and successfully promoted a new soap-making process using glycerin. Produced at Lever’s Port Sunlight facility in Cheshire, the brand entered the US market in 1895 before merging with the Dutch company Margarine Unie in 1929 to form Unilever.

Full list available on request.

Paper remnants or missing portions to some left margins not affecting image