Description: 🔵 1940S OVERTON'S HIGH BROWN FACE POWDER BLACK AMERICANA Small Box .42 OZ VINTAGE SEALED 💋 Gorgeous piece of Beauty history for displaying amongst your Purple Vintage Vanity Collection on your Vanity Dressing Table or Boudoir Table'...with your Vintage, Art Deco or Antique powder box or rouge collection. Makes a Great gift for the serious vintage makeup, beauty & vanity collection ! Great for movie prop collectors Rare Piece of Black history “High-Brown Face Powder clings so closely and matches the skin so perfectly that no one ever suspects the powder is there. The quality is rare, the perfume rich and fragrant. . . . Every known facility and method for the manufacture of face powder are employed so as to yield the famous High Brown quality demanded by the ‘lady who knows.’” Overton Hygienic MFG Co. advertisement, 1921 A LITTLE HISTORY As the son of enslaved parents, Anthony Overton was hardly ignorant to these injustices and atrocities, but like so many other ambitious arrivals to Chicago, he was also hopeful that new opportunities would inevitably bring progress. On the way to becoming a self-made millionaire, he proved as shrewd and driven as any of his white counterparts in the downtown skyscrapers; most of whom would never welcome him into their billiard rooms, let alone boardrooms.When you know the full story of the Overton-Hygienic MFG Company and its importance to thousands of women who never had access to these types of products before, however, it’s hard to see it as anything other than a noble legacy—every bit as significant as Overton’s more celebrated work with the Chicago Bee newspaper or Douglass National Bank. sadly the case with countless important figures in African-American history, tracing the early life of Anthony Overton—and particularly the lives of his parents—is a challenging endeavor. Enslaved men and women were rarely granted the careful consideration of census takers and record keepers, and as such, many of their stories are permanently lost to time. The fact that we even know as much as we do about the Overtons is a testament to how much they achieved in the years after the Civil War, long before young Anthony Jr. ever sold his first box of face powder.
Price: 99 USD
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
End Time: 2024-12-29T15:32:31.000Z
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