![[3731491] Perlee’s Magic, Labor-Saving, Money-Saving, Clothes-Saving, Washing Bleaching and Cleansing Fluid [opening lines]. A B. Perlee.](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731491.jpg?auto=webp&v=1706666348)
Perlee’s Magic, Labor-Saving, Money-Saving, Clothes-Saving, Washing Bleaching and Cleansing Fluid [opening lines]
As Widely-Acknowledged, Universal in the Washing World…
Proto-Tide laundry detergent. Magical and astonishing, Perlee’s fluid, by his account, practically washed your clothes for you. The soap wasn’t that magical —one had to soak their clothes overnight and blue them and boil them— but “colored goods” were promised to be rendered brighter, and woolens were less likely to shrink. Perlee also declared that his fluid could clean just about anything: “In short, it is beyond a precedent, as its use is universal in the washing world.”
Online in 2022, the American Cleaning Institute (yes, they do exist) provide a “Timeline of Cleaning.” They award the Germans as the first inventors in 1900 of non-soap detergents, but perhaps Perlee has a not-so wishy-washy claim here.
The broadside was printed by Isaac J. Oliver and his brother. They were actively printing in New York City during the 1850s. Unrecorded.
Description: Perlee’s Magic, Labor-Saving, Money-Saving, Clothes-Saving, Washing Bleaching and Cleansing Fluid [opening lines]
New York: Oliver & Brother, Steam Printers, [c. 1850s]. Yellow paper broadside with ornamental border. Approx. 8 x 9 inches. Corner margin loss; various creases two short tears expertly tissue-mended.
[3731491]Price: $150.00