Arsenic Complexion Wafers advertisement, Helena Independent, 1889
period advertisement · 1889
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SUMMARY
Newspaper advertisement for arsenic complexion wafers, published in The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana, on 9 November 1889. The advertisement promises to remove blotches, moles, pimples, and freckles, and presents the wafers as 'perfectly harmless' for continued use. The linked NewspaperArchive page is the source named by the Wikimedia Commons file record, which dates the advertisement to 1889 and states the file is in the public domain. Used as the case's period-advertisement media source for the arsenic-beauty trade.
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Period newspaper advertisement for arsenic complexion wafers, used as the artifact image for the arsenic slimming-and-complexion nostrum case.