Hilda Clark

Hilda Clark
An 1890s advertisement showing model Hilda Clark in formal 19th century attire. The ad is entitled Drink Coca-Cola 5¢.
Born	1872 Leavenworth, Kansas
Died	May 5, 1932 (aged 59–60) Miami Beach, Florida
Occupation	Stage actress, model

Hilda Clark (1872 – May 5, 1932) was an American model and actress. She was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, to Lydia and Milton Edward Clark. As a young adult she moved east to Boston to become a popular music hall songstress and actress. However, Clark became famous as a model in 1895 when she became the first woman to be featured on a tin Coca-Cola tray. Hilda Clark remained the advertising "face" of Coca-Cola until February 1903 when she married Frederick Stanton Flower in New York.^{[citation needed]}

Flower was a nephew of New York Governor Roswell P. Flower. Clark had been an active socialite in Boston but retired from the stage when she married. Frederick Flower was a millionaire, involved in banking concerns and director of several railroads. Flower died in December 1930. Hilda Clark died on May 5, 1932, in Miami Beach, Florida.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• Pendergrast, Mark. For God, Country & Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It. New York: Basic Books, 2000. ISBN 0465054684

External links

• Business Week - Hilda Clark

Persondata
Name	Clark, Hilda
Alternative names
Short description	American actor
Date of birth	1872
Place of birth	Leavenworth, Kansas
Date of death	1932
Place of death	Miami Beach, Florida