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The Gold Dust Twins, the trademark for Fairbank's Gold Dust washing powder products, appeared in printed media as early as 1892. "Goldie" and "Dusty", the original Gold Dust Twins, were often shown doing household chores together. In general use since the early 1900s, the term has had popular use as a nickname on several occasions. The sobriquet, "Gold Dust Twins," is often used to describe two talented individuals working closely together for a common goal, especially in sports.

Background

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.^[1]^[2] Gold Dust was distributed in America by the Lever Brothers Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its first regional success was in the midwestern United States. Gold Dust Washing Powders had been marketed nationally since the mid-1890s, becoming the top-selling national brand of washing powder by 1903.^[1] Gold Dust products were eventually licensed and marketed internationally by Lever Brothers in Canada and Great Britain. The product lines' bright orange labels prominently featured the Gold Dust Twins.^[1]

The original "Gold Dust Twins"

The Gold Dust Twins, 'Goldie' and 'Dustie', were the 'faces' of the Fairbank's Gold Dust washing powder product lines.^[1] The original (circa 1892) version of the twins was a drawing of two young black children cheerfully cleaning up together in a washtub. On the original containers, they are simply pictured standing side-by-side over the "Gold Dust Washing Powder" wording and behind a mound of gold coins, while standing underneath an arch emblazoned with the name "Fairbank's."^[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. On product containers and in advertisements, they were often comically depicted, along with a huge stack of dishes in a washtub, with one twin cleaning, the other drying.^[4] The twins became icons following a 1903 national marketing campaign, which featured the slogan "Let the Twins Do Your Work." They became an easily recognizable trademark found in many, if not most, U.S. homes during the first half of the twentieth century.

The Gold Dust Twins were drawn by E.W. Kemble, then a staff artist for the Chicago Daily Graphic.^[5] They were featured in print, billboard, specialty advertising, and radio advertisements for over sixty-five years.^[3] The Gold Dust Twins was the name of a popular radio program which was broadcast nationally in the US in the 1920s. 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.^[3]

Other uses

People

Historically, the "Gold Dust Twins" moniker has most often been used to describe two individuals working closely together for a common goal, including:

Entertainers

Tim Moore (later famous for his role of George "Kingfish" Stevens in the television version of Amos 'n' Andy), along with his stage-partners, Romeo Washburn and Cora Miskel, performed as part of the trio, "Cora and Her Gold Dust Twins," on the vaudeville circuit in the midwestern and the northeastern United States following the national popularization of the icons (early 1900s).^[7]

In government / politics

Benjamin V. Cohen and Thomas Corcoran, government (1930s).^[8]
Hugo Black and Bibb Graves, Alabama "gold passport" carrying Klansmen.^[9]

In sports

Harold "Jug" McSpaden and Byron Nelson, golf (1930s and 1940s).^[10]
Gus Mortson and Jim Thomson, Canadian hockey (1940s and early 1950s).^[11]
Royal Copeland and Joe Krol, Canadian football (1940s and early 1950s).^[12]
Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, tennis (1950s).^{[citation needed]}
Donny Anderson and Jim Grabowski, NFL football with the Green Bay Packers (1960s).^[13]
Fred Lynn and Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox baseball (1970s).^[14]

Other

Herman Sary and Leo Huck, two Catholic Carmelite brothers (circa 1898).^[15]
Douglas Albert Munro and Raymond Evans, U.S. Coast Guardsmen awarded medals in World War II^[16]

In popular culture

"The Gold Dust Twins", 1929 radio series
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, a 1975 comedy road movie; the Gold Dust Twins of the title being a pair of female hitchhikers
The Twins appear in the 2004 release, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, an alternate reality American documentary about American life after the Confederates had won the American Civil War. A recreation of a Gold Dust Twins commercial, featuring purposely outrageous racial stereotypes, is shown as part of the "mockumentary."
In "Washwoman's Blues" recorded August 8, 1928 and released as Columbia 146893, Bessie Smith has the line "Lord, I do more work than forty livin' Gold Dust Twins".^{[citation needed]}
In Chester Himes’s novel "A Rage in Harlem," Jackson, the central male character, and his twin brother, Goldy, had been nicknamed The Gold Dust Twins by “white people in the South.”

Products

A set of ham radio equipment was made by the Collins Radio Company in the 1950s that was nicknamed the "Gold Dust Twins" comprising the 75A-4 receiver and KWS-1 transmitter, which together at the time cost over $2500 ($28,400 in 2023 dollars) when new. Collins products were considered top-of-the-line. Ham radio enthusiasts nicknamed the pair the Gold Dust Twins, as they had not been affordable to most amateur radio enthusiasts when first introduced.^[17]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Schock, Barbara (2020-11-27). "Gold Dust Twins". Sandburg's Hometown. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
^ ^a ^b ^c Thomas, Velma Maia (2020-11-27). "Your Advertisement Troubles Me : Atlanta's Goldust Twins". ATLS: Atlanta Studies. Archived from the original on 2020-07-18. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "This Little Piggie Went to Market". Chicago Historical Journal. November 2020. Archived from the original on 2009-11-13.
^ Dailey, Jane Elizabeth; Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth; Simon, Bryant (2000). Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780691001937.
^ Dotz, Warren; Morton, Jim (1996). What a Character! 20th Century American Advertising Icons. Chronicle Books. p. 11. ISBN 0-8118-0936-6.
^ "Excerpts from Broadcast History". Tripod. 2020-11-27. Archived from the original on 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
^ "Tim Moore: The Gold Dust Twins". Archived from the original on 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
^ The Morning Star; Wilimington, North Carolina; August 17, 1983, page 3B Archived March 6, 2023, at the Wayback Machine; Cohen obituary
^ Dunne, Gerald T. (March 6, 1977). Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780671244064. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023 – via Google Books.
^ "Tales from the Bunker" Archived 2014-01-13 at the Wayback Machine Because of their consistent one-two finishes [during the war years], Nelson and McSpaden were together referred to as the "Gold Dust Twins".
^ "Thomson & Mortson". Legends of Hockey. August 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-08-30. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
^ "Royal Copeland was part of the Argos' Gold Dust Twins : obituary". The Record.com.
^ The Bryan Times; Saturday, September 2, 1972; Pg 7; Col. 1 Archived May 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine; Grabowski retirement article
^ "Lynn Thrilled for Rice, His 'Gold Dust Twin' Hall of Famer". NESN.com. 23 July 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
^ Dressel, Rev. Anthony C (October 1940). "Brother Herman Emil Sary, O.Carm. 1864-1911" (PDF). The Sword. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
^ "The Gold Dust Twins" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
^ "Collins 75A-4 KWS-1 Receiver". Amateur Radio Group. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2020-11-27.

External links

Gold Dust Washing Powder advertisement; Wednesday, November 12, 1902; Arkansas City Daily Traveler; Arkansas City, Kansas; retrieved November 2020; p. 2
A Gold Dust printed advertisement example(s)
Behind the Mike Radio Show; October 27, 1940; episode: Stoogedum : Today featuring Goldy and Dusty : the Gold Dust Twins (1924); only known extant recording of the Gold Dust Twins, here performing a recreation of one of their previously broadcast shows.

[Sandburg-1] Schock, Barbara (2020-11-27). "Gold Dust Twins". Sandburg's Hometown. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2020-11-27.

[Atlanta-2] Thomas, Velma Maia (2020-11-27). "Your Advertisement Troubles Me : Atlanta's Goldust Twins". ATLS: Atlanta Studies. Archived from the original on 2020-07-18. Retrieved July 27, 2015.

[WB:Journal-3] "This Little Piggie Went to Market". Chicago Historical Journal. November 2020. Archived from the original on 2009-11-13.

[Jump-4] Dailey, Jane Elizabeth; Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth; Simon, Bryant (2000). Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780691001937.

[AmAd-5] Dotz, Warren; Morton, Jim (1996). What a Character! 20th Century American Advertising Icons. Chronicle Books. p. 11. ISBN 0-8118-0936-6.

[trip-6] "Excerpts from Broadcast History". Tripod. 2020-11-27. Archived from the original on 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2020-11-27.

[Moore-7] "Tim Moore: The Gold Dust Twins". Archived from the original on 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2009-12-29.

[8] The Morning Star; Wilimington, North Carolina; August 17, 1983, page 3B Archived March 6, 2023, at the Wayback Machine; Cohen obituary

[9] Dunne, Gerald T. (March 6, 1977). Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780671244064. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023 – via Google Books.

[10] "Tales from the Bunker" Archived 2014-01-13 at the Wayback Machine Because of their consistent one-two finishes [during the war years], Nelson and McSpaden were together referred to as the "Gold Dust Twins".

[11] "Thomson & Mortson". Legends of Hockey. August 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-08-30. Retrieved 2020-11-27.

[obit-12] "Royal Copeland was part of the Argos' Gold Dust Twins : obituary". The Record.com.

[13] The Bryan Times; Saturday, September 2, 1972; Pg 7; Col. 1 Archived May 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine; Grabowski retirement article

[14] "Lynn Thrilled for Rice, His 'Gold Dust Twin' Hall of Famer". NESN.com. 23 July 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2020-11-27.

[15] Dressel, Rev. Anthony C (October 1940). "Brother Herman Emil Sary, O.Carm. 1864-1911" (PDF). The Sword. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-12-29.

[16] "The Gold Dust Twins" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

[radio-17] "Collins 75A-4 KWS-1 Receiver". Amateur Radio Group. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2020-11-27.

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+{{Short description|Trademark for Fairbank's Gold Dust washing powder}}
-{{short description|Name of 19th century marketing icons now eponymous with two closely entwined individuals.}}
+{{POV|date=March 2023}}
 [[File:Gold Dust Washing Soap box.jpg|thumb|upright=1|A box of Gold Dust Washing Soap featuring the iconic "Gold Dust Twins", 'Goldie' and 'Dustie']]
 The '''Gold Dust Twins''', the [[trademark]] for Fairbank's [[Gold Dust washing powder]] products, appeared in printed media as early as 1892. "Goldie" and "Dusty", the original Gold Dust Twins, were often shown doing household chores together. In general use since the early 1900s, the term has had [[popular culture|popular]] use as a [[nickname]] on several occasions. The [[sobriquet]], "Gold Dust Twins," is often used to describe two talented individuals working closely together for a common goal, especially in sports.
-Background of the gold dust twins :
+==Background==
+{{main|Gold Dust washing powder}}
-In 1903 a company named ¨ Fairbanks & co ¨ created a washing powder product that would , clean your clothes , wash your dishes and basically household cleaning , here is the problem , not only the slogan was ¨ Let the gold dust twins do your work ¨ also there product logo or picture was basically minstrel characters or blackface characters not only was this product racially motivated , it was also like at as you joke , in today´s model world if this people was still on shelf´s it would be looked at as a racial product that would need deep deep processing and investing into the product , not only where they 2 white people dressed or painted as black , they were also to target black culture and there skin , The name gold dust twins is already racist because the name is basically saying that african american are dusty and basically are not clear and also saying that african american people should clean .
+Gold Dust washing powder was an all-purpose [[cleaning agent]] first introduced in the late 1880s by the [[N. K. Fairbank|Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank]] Soap Company based in [[New York City]].<ref name="Sandburg">{{Cite web |last=Schock |first=Barbara |date=2020-11-27 |title=Gold Dust Twins |url=https://www.sandburg.org/SandburgsHometown/SandburgsHometown_Gold-Dust-Twins.html |access-date=2020-11-27 |website=Sandburg's Hometown |archive-date=2020-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202034005/http://www.sandburg.org/SandburgsHometown/SandburgsHometown_Gold-Dust-Twins.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Atlanta" />  Gold Dust was distributed in America by the [[Lever Brothers]] Company of [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. Its first regional success was in the [[Midwestern United States|midwestern]] United States.  Gold Dust Washing Powders had been marketed nationally since the mid-1890s, becoming the top-selling national [[brand]] of washing powder by 1903.<ref name="Sandburg" />  Gold Dust products were eventually licensed and marketed internationally by Lever Brothers in [[Canada]] and [[Great Britain]].  The product lines' bright orange labels prominently featured the Gold Dust Twins.<ref name="Sandburg" />
+==The original "Gold Dust Twins"==
+The Gold Dust Twins, 'Goldie' and 'Dustie', were the 'faces' of the Fairbank's Gold Dust washing powder product lines.<ref name="Sandburg" /> The original (circa 1892) version of the twins was a drawing of two young black children cheerfully cleaning up together in a washtub. On the original containers, they are simply pictured standing side-by-side over the "Gold Dust Washing Powder" wording and behind a mound of gold coins, while standing underneath an arch emblazoned with the name "Fairbank's."<ref name="WB:Journal">{{Cite web |date=November 2020 |title=This Little Piggie Went to Market |url=http://www.chicagohistoryjournal.com/2008/05/this-little-piggie-went-to-market.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113194719/http://www.chicagohistoryjournal.com/2008/05/this-little-piggie-went-to-market.html |archive-date=2009-11-13 |website=Chicago Historical Journal}}</ref><ref name="Atlanta">{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Velma Maia |date=2020-11-27 |title=Your Advertisement Troubles Me : Atlanta's Goldust Twins |url=https://www.atlantastudies.org/2015/07/27/your-advertisement-troubles-me-atlantas-gold-dust-twins/ |access-date=July 27, 2015 |website=ATLS: Atlanta Studies |archive-date=2020-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718193305/https://www.atlantastudies.org/2015/07/27/your-advertisement-troubles-me-atlantas-gold-dust-twins/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+[[File:Goldy and dusty.jpg|thumb|upright=1|right|Harvey Hindemeyer and Earle Tuckerman as the Goldy and Dusty, respectively, of the radio show fame]]
+By the 1903 launch of a national advertising campaign, renderings of the twins had been transformed into a [[cartoon]]ish pair of caricature, bald, black children of unspecified gender shown wearing tutus that sported the words "Gold" and "Dust" on them.  On product containers and in advertisements, they were often comically depicted, along with a huge stack of dishes in a washtub, with one twin cleaning, the other drying.<ref name="Jump">{{Cite book |last1=Dailey |first1=Jane Elizabeth |title=Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights |last2=Gilmore |first2=Glenda Elizabeth |last3=Simon |first3=Bryant |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2000 |isbn=9780691001937 |location=New Jersey |pages=168}}</ref> The twins became [[cultural icon|icons]] following a 1903 national marketing campaign, which featured the slogan "Let the Twins Do Your Work." They became an easily recognizable [[trademark]] found in many, if not most, U.S. homes during the first half of the twentieth century.
+The Gold Dust Twins were drawn by [[E.W. Kemble]], then a staff artist for the ''Chicago Daily Graphic''.<ref name="AmAd">{{Cite book |last1=Dotz |first1=Warren |title=What a Character! 20th Century American Advertising Icons |last2=Morton |first2=Jim |date=1996 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=0-8118-0936-6 |page=11}}</ref>  They were featured in print, billboard, specialty advertising, and radio advertisements for over sixty-five years.<ref name="WB:Journal" />  ''The Gold Dust Twins'' was the name of a popular radio program which was broadcast nationally in the US in the 1920s. Starring Harvey Hindemeyer as "Goldie", and Earle Tuckerman as "Dusty,"<ref name="trip">{{Cite web |date=2020-11-27 |title=Excerpts from Broadcast History |url=http://jeff560.tripod.com/am1.html |access-date=2020-11-27 |website=Tripod |archive-date=2008-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515020416/http://jeff560.tripod.com/am1.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Atlanta" />
+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.<ref name="WB:Journal" />
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 ==Other uses==
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 ;Entertainers
-* [[Tim Moore (comedian)|Tim Moore]] (later famous for his role of George "Kingfish" Stevens in the television version of ''[[Amos 'n' Andy]]''), along with his stage-partners, Romeo Washburn and Cora Miskel, performed as part of the trio, "Cora and Her Gold Dust Twins," on the [[vaudeville]] circuit in the [[midwest]]ern and the [[Northeastern United States|northeast]]ern United States following the national popularization of the icons (early 1900s).<ref name="Moore">{{Cite web |title=Tim Moore: The Gold Dust Twins |url=http://www.yodaslair.com/dumboozle/tmoore/golddust.html}}</ref>
+* [[Tim Moore (comedian)|Tim Moore]] (later famous for his role of George "Kingfish" Stevens in the television version of ''[[Amos 'n' Andy]]''), along with his stage-partners, Romeo Washburn and Cora Miskel, performed as part of the trio, "Cora and Her Gold Dust Twins," on the [[vaudeville]] circuit in the [[midwest]]ern and the [[Northeastern United States|northeast]]ern United States following the national popularization of the icons (early 1900s).<ref name="Moore">{{Cite web|url=http://www.yodaslair.com/dumboozle/tmoore/golddust.html|title=Tim Moore: The Gold Dust Twins|access-date=2009-12-29|archive-date=2009-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331130550/http://www.yodaslair.com/dumboozle/tmoore/golddust.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 ; In government / politics
-* [[Benjamin V. Cohen]] and [[Thomas Gardiner Corcoran|Thomas Corcoran]], government (1930s).<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1367&dat=19830817&id=n9wVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ihMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4922,4542907 ''The Morning Star''; Wilimington, North Carolina; August 17, 1983, page 3B]; Cohen obituary</ref>
+* [[Benjamin V. Cohen]] and [[Thomas Gardiner Corcoran|Thomas Corcoran]], government (1930s).<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1367&dat=19830817&id=n9wVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ihMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4922,4542907 ''The Morning Star''; Wilimington, North Carolina; August 17, 1983, page 3B] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306161317/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1367&dat=19830817&id=n9wVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ihMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4922,4542907 |date=March 6, 2023 }}; Cohen obituary</ref>
-* [[Hugo Black]] and [[Bibb Graves]], Alabama "gold passport" carrying [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rGHN2oBy_jEC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=bibb+graves+gold+dust&source=bl&ots=DldZf6gXEl&sig=2jjywseaUC-CD1oirI9xPE2bBCw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AH4mUJapM-nK2AXMkYCwAw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=bibb%20graves%20gold%20dust&f=false ''Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution''; by Gerald T. Dunne]</ref>
+* [[Hugo Black]] and [[Bibb Graves]], Alabama "gold passport" carrying [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rGHN2oBy_jEC&dq=bibb+graves+gold+dust&pg=PA61|title=Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution|first=Gerald T.|last=Dunne|date=March 6, 1977|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9780671244064|via=Google Books|access-date=March 6, 2023|archive-date=March 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306161327/https://books.google.com/books?id=rGHN2oBy_jEC&dq=bibb+graves+gold+dust&pg=PA61|url-status=live}}</ref>
 ;In sports
 * [[Harold "Jug" McSpaden]] and [[Byron Nelson]], golf (1930s and 1940s).<ref>[http://talesfromthebunker.com/harold-%E2%80%9Cjug%E2%80%9D-mcspaden-the-other-gold-dust-twin/ "Tales from the Bunker"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113161637/http://talesfromthebunker.com/harold-%E2%80%9Cjug%E2%80%9D-mcspaden-the-other-gold-dust-twin/ |date=2014-01-13 }} Because of their consistent one-two finishes [during the war years], Nelson and McSpaden were together referred to as the "Gold Dust Twins".</ref>
-* [[Gus Mortson]] and [[Jimmy Thomson (ice hockey b. 1927)|Jim Thomson]], Canadian hockey (1940s and early 1950s).<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2017 |title=Thomson & Mortson |url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=13788 |access-date=2020-11-27 |website=Legends of Hockey}}</ref>
+* [[Gus Mortson]] and [[Jimmy Thomson (ice hockey b. 1927)|Jim Thomson]], Canadian hockey (1940s and early 1950s).<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2017 |title=Thomson & Mortson |url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=13788 |access-date=2020-11-27 |website=Legends of Hockey |archive-date=2017-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830060657/http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=13788 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 * [[Royal Copeland (Canadian football)|Royal Copeland]] and [[Joe Krol]], Canadian football (1940s and early 1950s).<ref name="obit">{{Cite news |title=Royal Copeland was part of the Argos' Gold Dust Twins : obituary |work=The Record.com |url=http://www.therecord.com/sports/football/article/575922--royal-copeland-was-part-of-the-argos-gold-dust-twins}}</ref>
 * [[Lew Hoad]] and [[Ken Rosewall]], tennis (1950s).{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
-* [[Donny Anderson]] and [[Jim Grabowski]], NFL football with the [[Green Bay Packers]] (1960s).<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19720902&id=PnhPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8lEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6435,4027659 ''The Bryan Times''; Saturday, September 2, 1972; Pg 7; Col. 1]; Grabowski retirement article</ref>
+* [[Donny Anderson]] and [[Jim Grabowski]], NFL football with the [[Green Bay Packers]] (1960s).<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19720902&id=PnhPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8lEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6435,4027659 ''The Bryan Times''; Saturday, September 2, 1972; Pg 7; Col. 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513051442/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19720902&id=PnhPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8lEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6435,4027659 |date=May 13, 2016 }}; Grabowski retirement article</ref>
-* [[Fred Lynn]] and [[Jim Rice]], [[Boston Red Sox]] baseball (1970s).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lynn Thrilled for Rice, His 'Gold Dust Twin' Hall of Famer |url=http://www.nesn.com/2009/07/lynn-thrilled-for-rice-his-gold-dust-twin-hall-of-famer.html |archive-date=July 2009 |access-date=2020-11-27 |website=NESN.com}}</ref>
+* [[Fred Lynn]] and [[Jim Rice]], [[Boston Red Sox]] baseball (1970s).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lynn Thrilled for Rice, His 'Gold Dust Twin' Hall of Famer |url=http://www.nesn.com/2009/07/lynn-thrilled-for-rice-his-gold-dust-twin-hall-of-famer.html |archive-date=2009-08-03 |access-date=2020-11-27 |website=NESN.com |date=23 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803050242/http://www.nesn.com/2009/07/lynn-thrilled-for-rice-his-gold-dust-twin-hall-of-famer.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 ;Other
-* Herman Sary and Leo Huck, two [[Brother (Catholic)|Catholic Carmelite brothers]] (circa 1898).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dressel |first=Rev. Anthony C |date=October 1940 |title=Brother Herman Emil Sary, O.Carm. 1864-1911 |work=The Sword |url=http://carmelnet.org/necrology/obits/SaryHerman.pdf}}</ref>
+* Herman Sary and Leo Huck, two [[Brother (Catholic)|Catholic Carmelite brothers]] (circa 1898).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dressel |first=Rev. Anthony C |date=October 1940 |title=Brother Herman Emil Sary, O.Carm. 1864-1911 |work=The Sword |url=http://carmelnet.org/necrology/obits/SaryHerman.pdf |access-date=2009-12-29 |archive-date=2010-06-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613044224/http://carmelnet.org/necrology/obits/SaryHerman.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
-* [[Douglas Albert Munro]] and [[Raymond Evans (USCG)|Raymond Evans]], sailors of the U.S. Coast Guard awarded medals in WWII<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gold Dust Twins |url=https://media.defense.gov/2018/May/31/2001925084/-1/-1/0/EVANSORALHISTORY_GOLDDUSTTWINS.PDF |website=U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office}}</ref>
+* [[Douglas Albert Munro]] and [[Raymond Evans (USCG)|Raymond Evans]], U.S. Coast Guardsmen awarded medals in World War II<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gold Dust Twins |url=https://media.defense.gov/2018/May/31/2001925084/-1/-1/0/EVANSORALHISTORY_GOLDDUSTTWINS.PDF |website=U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office |access-date=2019-10-12 |archive-date=2019-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219072911/https://media.defense.gov/2018/May/31/2001925084/-1/-1/0/EVANSORALHISTORY_GOLDDUSTTWINS.PDF |url-status=live }}</ref>
 ===In popular culture===
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 * ''[[Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins]]'', a 1975 comedy road movie; the Gold Dust Twins of the title being a pair of female hitchhikers
 * The Twins appear in the 2004 release, ''[[C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America]]'', an [[Parallel universes in fiction|alternate reality]] American documentary about American life after the Confederates had won the [[American Civil War]]. A recreation of a Gold Dust Twins commercial, featuring purposely outrageous racial stereotypes, is shown as part of the "[[mockumentary]]."
-*In "Washwoman's Blues" recorded August 8, 1928 and released as Columbia 146893, Bessie Smith has the line "Lord, I do more work than forty livin' Gold Dust Twins".
+*In "Washwoman's Blues" recorded August 8, 1928 and released as Columbia 146893, [[Bessie Smith]] has the line "Lord, I do more work than forty livin' Gold Dust Twins".{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}
+*In [[Chester Himes]]’s novel "A Rage in Harlem," Jackson, the central male character, and his twin brother, Goldy, had been nicknamed The Gold Dust Twins by “white people in the South.”
 ===Products===
-A set of [[Amateur radio|ham radio]] equipment made by the [[Collins Radio Company]] in the 1950s that was nicknamed the "Gold Dust Twins" comprising the [[75A-4 and KWS-1|75A-4 receiver and KWS-1 transmitter]], which together at the time cost over $2500 (equivalent to over $23,000 in 2019 dollars) when new.  Collins products were considered 'top of the line'.  Ham radio enthusiasts nicknamed the pair the Gold Dust Twins, as they had not been affordable to most amateur radio enthusiasts when first introduced.<ref name="radio">{{Cite web |title=Collins 75A-4 KWS-1 Receiver |url=http://www.n8xym.com/2012/04/collins-75a-4-kws-1-receiver.html |access-date=2020-11-27 |website=Amateur Radio Group}}</ref>
+A set of [[Amateur radio|ham radio]] equipment was made by the [[Collins Radio Company]] in the 1950s that was nicknamed the "Gold Dust Twins" comprising the [[75A-4 and KWS-1|75A-4 receiver and KWS-1 transmitter]], which together at the time cost over $2500 (${{Inflation|US|2500|1955|fmt=c|r=-2}} in {{inflation-year|US}} dollars) when new.  Collins products were considered top-of-the-line.  Ham radio enthusiasts nicknamed the pair the Gold Dust Twins, as they had not been affordable to most amateur radio enthusiasts when first introduced.<ref name="radio">{{Cite web |title=Collins 75A-4 KWS-1 Receiver |url=http://www.n8xym.com/2012/04/collins-75a-4-kws-1-receiver.html |access-date=2020-11-27 |website=Amateur Radio Group |archive-date=2020-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025230700/http://www.n8xym.com/2012/04/collins-75a-4-kws-1-receiver.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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