Print, Photographic

Print. Black and white photographic print of a window display which features ladies hair tools available at The J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. A female mannequin is perched atop an oversized hair brush, dressed in bedroom cloths and holding a hair brush in her right hand. The window is ornamented with stars, and tulle. Affixed to one of the stars in the background, signage reads, "This is the World's Largest Hair Brush, Six Feet Long, Weighing 95 Pounds, Containing 790 Feet of 'Bristle'… Lent to Us by Pro-Phy-Lac-Tic Brush Co… Maker of the Famous Jewelite Brushes, Light, Strong, Long-Wearing… A Proud Addition to Your Dressing Table." Also, signage in the right foreground reads, "Dreaming of Beautiful Hair? Wake Up and Brush with Jewelite, Toiletries, Street Floor." Signage in the left background of the display adjacent to the mannequin reads, "Jewelite Brushes, by Pro-Phy-Lac-Tic, gives you beauty for your dressing table - beauty for your hair! Fine nylon brushes, worthy of their fine name, have deep stimulating action to help burnish hair to its rich, natural luster, Clear, Pink or Blue Plastic, Flared, Stimulator, Rollwave Styles. $2.45 to $4.95, Toiletries, First Floor, Woodward." The company name, and the photographer's name are printed on the bottom of the recto, "The J.L. Hudson Company; Photography by Davis B. Hillmer."