The Fernie Museum is proud to present Cabinet of Curiosities, a video series investigating our artifact collections. Every week, a new object is examined by our trusty Collectionsperson, Lindsay Vallance.
The Victorian era was hard on your skin. Soot, sun damage, smallpox…what was a lady to do? Why, home beauty treatments, of course!
Image of Johnson’s Corrosive Sublimate Soap courtesy the National Museum of American History https://www.si.edu/object/johnsons-co…
Image of myrrh tree bark by World Agroforestry via Flickr CC 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/icraf/2…