Gold Dust Twins

Gold Dust washing powder was an all-purpose cleaning agent first introduced in the late 1880s by the Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank Soap Company based in New York City."[3][2] By the 1903 launch of a national advertising campaign, renderings of the twins had been transformed into a cartoonish pair of caricature, bald, black children of unspecified gender shown wearing tutus that sported the words "Gold" and "Dust" on them.Starring Harvey Hindemeyer as "Goldie", and Earle Tuckerman as "Dusty,"[6] the show was sponsored by Lever Brothers and Gold Dust washing powder.An early example of product tie-ins, Gold Dust's advertising jingle became the show's theme song, sung by Hindemeyer and Tuckerman.[2] The products (along with Goldie and Dustie) were phased out by the mid-1950s, as national sensibilities regarding race and racial stereotypes embodied in the Twins characters began to change.
A box of Gold Dust Washing Soap featuring the iconic "Gold Dust Twins", 'Goldie' and 'Dustie'
Harvey Hindemeyer and Earle Tuckerman as the Goldy and Dusty, respectively, of the radio show fame
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