Package of Carotone brightening cream

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A tube (a) with cap (b), a box (c) of Carotone brightening cream, and an advertisement (d) for Carotone products. 2022.94ab: A tube of Carotone brightening cream with a white plastic cap. The plastic tube of brightening cream is light to dark gradient orange. Featured at the bottom center of the front of the tube is a color photographic image of a woman in bust pose. She is depicted nude from the shoulders up. Her body is shown in profile with her face turned and looking over her proper left shoulder, at the viewer. Printed green text across the top center of the tube reads [LIGHT & NATURAL TM] with [CAROTONE] printed in large orange text outlined in green below. Smaller additional text at the center reads [DSP / 10] above a small graphic of overlapping green and orange squares next to the text [Collagen / FORMULA].

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