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Pearline Soap – Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1998

Jan 9th, 2008
by fadingad.

Pearline Soap - Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1998
© Frank H. Jump

Posted in: Brooklyn Waterfront, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Pearline Soap, Soap, Williamsburg.

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6 Comments

  1. Robert Baptista says:
    February 22, 2008 at 4:09 am

    James Pyle made soap at 350 Washington St. in Manhattan in the 1860s. The product was sold in grocery stores as Pyle’s O.K. Soap. He later moved the factory to 414 Washington St. and sold Pearline Soap in one-pound packages at 15 cents per package. It was a coarse white powder formulated with sodium carbonate for washing clothes. A colorful vintage ad can be seen at the link: 🙂

    A fascinating period photo is at the Library of Congress which depicts a little girl sitting on opened crates of Pearline washing compound, crying. She apparently mistook the small boxes for Crackerjacks! The link is 🙂

    The Pearline Soap factory is being converted to condominiums with a cool $5 million starting price. Photos, a map, and more old Pearline ads are at this link 🙂

  2. fadingad says:
    February 22, 2008 at 4:15 am

    Robert- Thanks for the happy links 🙂

  3. fadingad says:
    February 22, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Robert, the link to the Library of Congress image was a temp link. Can you find that again? The little girl on the soap.

  4. fadingad says:
    February 22, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    Found it!
    http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3b10000/3b18000/3b18100/3b18184u.tif

  5. Baptista Search Uncovers Vintage Gems « Fading Ad Blog by Frank H. Jump says:
    February 23, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    […] are images Robert Baptista (coloranthistory.org) found while commenting on some of my Pearline Soap postings. Pearline Soap ad: Williamsburg, […]

  6. Soapea says:
    September 26, 2012 at 4:10 am

    Beautiful photo, and the links! Thank you.