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| Keywords: 1888 Ivory Soap Advertisement.jpg en Advertisement for Ivory soap in 1888 displaying a couple of native Americans and these verses We once were factious fierce and wild To peaceful arts unreconciled; Our blankets smeared with grease and stains From buffalo meat and settlers' veins From moon to moon unwashed we went; But Ivory Soap came like a ray Of light across our darkened way And now we're civil kind and good And keep the laws as people should We wear our linen lawn and lace As well as folks with paler face And now I take where'er we go This cake of Ivory Soap to show What civilized my squaw and me And made us clean and fair to see http //www flickr com/photos/nyctreeman/2653458316/in/set-72157612435041395/ Proctor Gamble 1888 PD-Art PD-US Indigenous peoples of the Americas in advertisement 1888 advertisements 1888 cartoons Soap advertisements Racism in the United States | ||||
