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8 items
Courting Coolness
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet provides tips for keeping a house cool during the summer such as sprinkling water on…
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8 items
Getting Away From it All
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet provides tips for finding a summer home and suggests purchasing a simple, cheap property…
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8 items
A Bride Looks at Her Kitchen
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet includes dialogue between two neighbors, a young bride and an older woman. After learning…
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8 items
Up Goes the Curtain on Summer
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet describes the joy of escaping a stifling home to enjoy the outdoors by creating one's own…
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8 items
In the Spring a Housewife's Conscience Always Turns to Thoughts of House Cleaning
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet describes how to prepare for spring cleaning including laundering summer curtains,…
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8 items
What Every Woman Should Know About Painting
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet describes how there is much to consider prior to beginning a painting project. It likens…
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Pamphlets corresponding to radio shows produced by the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association
- 1940s
A collection of colorfully illustrated pamphlets corresponding to radio broadcast programming by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The pamphlets advertise paint and varnish uses, and provide…
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8 items
From the World's Four Corners
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created in cooperation with Foreign Trade week by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet describes how components of all paint products hail…
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22 items
Pamphlets corresponding to radio shows produced by the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association
- 1940s
A collection of colorfully illustrated pamphlets corresponding to radio broadcast programming by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The pamphlets advertise paint and varnish uses, and provide…
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Is This Really the Age of Plastics?
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement features an illustration of multicolored plastic trim, framed by contrasting scenes from antiquity and modernity: two figures crafting ceramic vases near a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Ethylcellulose, Women in advertising
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Dyestuffs for Wood Stains
- 1900s
Sample book for dyeing solutions on wood from the Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Contains dyeing instructions and sixty-four mounted wood…
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Styron: Putting Plastics in Their Place
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of industrial and consumer applications. The advertisement features…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics, World War (1939-1945), Women in advertising
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Styrene: A Chemical Charged with Tremendous Public Promise
- Circa 1944
Two-page color advertisement for styrene, a chemical compound that is the basis of polystyrene. Dow polystyrene was marketed under the trade name Styron for a variety of commercial and industrial uses. The advertisement…
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Dow Magnesium: The Metal of Motion
- 1944-Mar-27
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of airplane landing gear extending or retracting, three…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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Dowmetal Magnesium: The Metal of Motion
- 1944-Feb-28
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of a train in motion and a contour drawing of the Dowmetal…
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Dowmetal Magnesium: The Metal of Motion
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of a man carrying a canoe overhead and a contour drawing…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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Dow Magnesium: The Metal of Motion
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of a metal piece lifted by two hands, a Dow employee…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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Is "Plastics" the Word?
- 1944-Mar-27
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement shows a composite illustration of historical figures, include a glassblower, two figures in the style of ancient Egyptian art, and a man in a lab coat…
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What Have Plastics in Common with Metals?
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement features an illustration of assorted plastic industrial products, including a canteen, plastic piping, a window screen and plastic trim. The accompanying…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Ethylcellulose
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What Can You Expect from Plastics?
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisment features a color illustration of various plastic containers and packaging. The accompanying text describes advancements in the field of plastics, including…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics in packaging
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Just What Are "Plastics?"
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical plastic products. The advertisement features a stylized illustration of a hand dispensing plastic film from a roll, as well as plastic containers and a notepad with chemical…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade
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Is It Packaged When It's Wrapped?
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement features an illustration of the various uses of plastic packaging, from food and agriculture to industry. The accompanying text promotes three Dow Chemical…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Packaging, Plastics in packaging
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What Do You Look For in a Package?
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement features an illustration of a pair of manicured hands holding a colorfully wrapped box, a woman holding groceries, and plastic sheeting being manufactured.…
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Out of the Golden Gate
- Advertisement for Dow Chemical Great Western Division
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical's Great Western Division. The advertisement features a photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge. An illustrated inlay frames the photo with the outline of the west coast of North…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Corporations, Chemical industry, Advertising, Industrial, World War (1939-1945)
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Stripcoat
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Stripcoat, a protective coating made from Dow Ethylcellulose (branded as Ethocel). The advertisement features a racially-stereotyped depiction of a Chinese soldier removing the protective…