Seven Sutherland Sisters Lockport NY Hair Bottle Start Price USD 49.99 Current Price USD 49.99 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, September 08, 2008 End Time Monday, September 15, 2008 Location Buffalo,NY See more about 'Seven Sutherland Sisters Lockport NY Hair Bottle' Description Seven Sutherland Sisters Lockport NY Hair Bottle Seven Sutherland Sisters Hair Grower Lockport NY Hair Bottle. Aqua, dug condition, no chips or cracks,bottle embossed New York NOT Lockport but this is where the Sutherland Sisters lived. Blown in mold circa 1890. FULL RETURN privileges.They were America's first celebrity models. In the 1880s, fashion's era of bustles and puffs, they became one of the sexiest, most popular performing attractions in The Greatest Show on Earth, claiming a World Record for the longest haired family. P.T. Barnum called them "the seven most pleasing wonders of the world" as they attracted great throngs along the glittering midway. Around 1884, when the Sisters were traveling with Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, their father realized that crowds flocked to see the girls' long hair more than their singing act. Fletcher Sutherland mixed together a liquid concoction that he called The Seven Sutherland Sisters Hair Grower. He sent a bottle to a chemist for an analysis and received the following testimonial: "Cincinnati, Ohio, March, 1884: - Having made a Chemical Analysis of the Hair Grower prepared by the Seven Long Haired Sisters, I hereby certify that I found it free from all injurious substances, being largely composed of vegetable preparations. It is beyond question the best preparation for the hair ever made and I cheerfully endorse it. -- J.R. Duff, M.D., Chemist." A 1907 analysis of the product showed the following contents: 28.4% alcohol, about 1% solids with traces of borax and quinine. The Seven Sutherland Sisters Corp. bottled and distributed the Hair Grower from New York City and sold $90,000 worth the first year. They soon added a Scalp Cleanser, a Seven Sutherland Sisters Comb and eight shades of Hair Colorators. They came from the poverty of Cambria, New York, a rural farm community, and rode their dynamic singing talent and exotic looks to wealth and international fame, becoming global trendsetters, and even marrying into royalty. Their magical quality for personal and public reinvention made them divine. As Gilded Age divas, they sang, played piano, modeled, and offered hair care and beauty advice to millions. They labored endlessly to stay at the forefront of American hair fashion, their controversial methods drawing wide attention and intense scrutiny. They had hair magnetism; hair was their art, their source of power and eventual wealth. In the days when few people trusted physicians, when secret home-made remedies, quackery, and self-doctoring flourished, they helped set the standards by which models and celebrities would endorse and sell namesake beauty products, launching a marketing industry that today banks on fame-selling. Yet, they were equally superstitious, eccentric, mystical, and notorious, muses of complex psychology and motivation. Their lives, their ambitions, virtues, humor, and dramas were much greater than the stuff of the greatest fiction. Then, as if somehow voided from the annals of Americana, they just disappeared. See my auctions for leather bound book signed twice by Elbert Hubbard, Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna NY Truck Flag MINT, antiquarian books, label under glass whiskey,cobalt blue Underwoods Master inks, bitters bottles and breweriana.Save on postage by combining or pick up your item September 28th at The Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Antique & Bottle Show September 28th 9-2 at Polish Falcons Hall on Columbia in Depew NY. Affordable Auction Management and Image Hosting Solutions @ inkFrog Place a Bid!