Museum Artifact: Overton’s High Brown Face Powder, 1944 Made By: The Overton-Hygienic Manufacturing Company, 3621 S. State Street, Chicago, IL [Bronzeville] “High-Brown Face Powder clings so closely and matches the skin so perfectly that no one ever suspects the powder is there. The quality is rare, the perfume rich and fragrant. . . . Every known facility and method for the manufacture of face powder are employed so as to yield the famous High Brown quality demanded by the ‘lady who kn...
