1931 Print Ivory Palace Soap White Ivorydale Cincinnati Ohio Lye Lard FZ1 LHJ4 The gypsies arrived about 600

The gypsies arrived about 600 years ago and their mixture with the culture of the Moors helped develop Flamenco dancing in Spain

This is an original 1911 black and white print ad promoting the Congress Cards and Bicycle Cards from U

Photograph by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik

This is an original 1955 black and white print ad for the Bayer Aspirin from Bayer

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

1931 Print Ivory Palace Soap White Ivorydale Cincinnati Ohio Lye Lard FZ1 LHJ4 The gypsies arrived about 600This 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,