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Genie Business
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet likens the fascination of painting furniture to the magic of a genie. Describes tips and…
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Varnish and the Queen
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet tells the story of Queen Berenice II of Egypt, after whom the modern-day word for varnish…
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Regency Returns: Notes on Decoration
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet discusses the revival of English Regency themes in home decoration. Describes the…
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Only One Pair of Eyes
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet describes how too much or too little light can be harmful to the eyes. Describes solutions…
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Don't Take Chances
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet begins by raising awareness of the countless annual motor and domestic accident fatalities.…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Make Better Castings with Hercules NVX and Truline Binder
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Print advertisement for NVX and Truline, the trade names for resinous binders manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in casting iron, steel, and brass. The advertisement features a black-and-white…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Advertising, Industrial, Founding, Metal castings
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Stop Insect Losses! Use Cotton Poisons the Right Way
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Print advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. The advertisement features a line drawing of a farmer in a field, with a tractor…
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Don't Lose Cotton! Inspect Frequently for Harmful Insects
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Print advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. The advertisement shows a line drawing of a man inspecting the leaves of a…
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Noma Plays Safe with Flame-Resistant Hercocel
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Color print advertisement for Hercocel flame-resistant acetate, made with cellulosic acetate molding powder manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement features a variety of electric…
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Hercocel E Answers a Call for Ethyl
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Color print advertisement for Hercocel E, an ethyl cellulose molding powder manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement shows a man in a coat using a telephone handset, with an image of an…
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An Open-and-Shut Case of Good Design
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Color print advertisement for Hercocel A, a cellulose acetate molding powder manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement shows a photograph of a woman in a work uniform holding a plastic lunch…
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"The Finest Plastics Toys are Acetate"
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Two-page color advertisement for cellulose acetate made with plastic molding compounds manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement features small line drawings showing different phases in the…
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A Double Edge--In Selling, Too!
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Color print advertisement for cellulosic plastics made with plastic molding compounds manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement shows a woman in an apron operating an Oster electric knife…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Advertising, Industrial, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Cellulose, Cellulose industry, Cellulose acetate, Women in advertising, Housewives, Housewives as consumers, Naval stores
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For Uniform Whiteness...
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Color print advertisement for Hercules CMC-CT, unpurified cellulose gum manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company for use in detergent products. The advertisement shows a uniformed woman arranging linens on a…
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Whiter...with Soaps
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Color print advertisement for Hercules CMC-CT, unpurified cellulose gum manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company for use in detergent products. The advertisement shows two views of a smiling woman holding stacks…
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The Size for Service...
- Advertisement for Hercules CMC-CT
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Color print advertisement for Hercules CMC-CT, unpurified cellulose gum manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company for use in detergent products. The advertisement shows a waiter arranging a napkin on a table…
