Advertisement for Sweet Georgia Brown skin bleaching creams

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Color advertisment for Sweet George Brown skin lightening beauty treatments. The two advertised products are Skin Bleaching Cream and Lemon Cleansing Cream. The purpose of this advertisment was to act as a means for people to order these products. The following taglines are featured: "HAVE LIGHTER LOOKING SKIN"/HAVE THE SKIN MEN LOVE"/KNOW THE JOY OF A LIGHTER APPEARING COMPLEXION".

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