IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The first safety razor was patented ...

“In 1895, when I, King Camp Gillette, was 40, I first thought of the safety razor.” So, a decade ago, wrote the father of a great company, a great industry. The proud ring in his words was justified.

Was there ever a thing so misnamed as safety razors? Safer than what? For decades, men went to work with little pieces of tissue attached to their faces to staunch the bleeding. All the same, as city ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. "No Stropping, No Honing." As a young ...

Editor's note: This story is part of a series celebrating 150 years of daily newspaper service in Fond du Lac County. The series runs in print on the last Sunday of each month. FOND DU LAC - Wisconsin ...

Gillette is recalling thousands of Venus Simply3 disposable razors over laceration concerns because the blades are misaligned and can cause users to cut themselves while shaving. The company said the ...

We don't claim that this razor will give better satisfaction than the lower-priced safety razors quoted on this page." The model of cheap razors and expensive blades evolved only later, as Gillette's ...

In the field of specialty manufacturing, few U. S. concerns can equal the extraordinary success of the Gillette Safety Razor Co., as the Company’s 1924 statement goes to show. Last year, the Company’s ...

Gillette is commemorating the first moon landing 50 years after its razor was used on board NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission. Gillette's Apollo Collection by Razor Maker men's razor features a design ...