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Throughout American Life
- 1947-May-03
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement features a photograph…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics, Children in advertising
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28 items
Neoprene A Remarkable Engineering Material
- A Short History of Neoprene, A Chemical Triumph
- 1943
Promotional booklet describing Neoprene, a rubber-like material made from polymerized chloroprene manufactured and sold by the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. The publication describes the basic chemical and…
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Styron...The Right Plastic!
- 1947
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement features a photograph…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Children in advertising
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...And the Beauty of It Is Styron
- 1947-Feb-08
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement features a photograph…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Women in advertising
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472 items
The Constants of Nature
- Parts I, II, and III
- 1873-Dec (Part I)
- 1876-Apr (Part I Supplement, Part II, and Part III)
One of the first published compilations of physical and chemical constants, this three-part volume includes tables of constants gathered from contemporary research. The tables of part one list over 5000 values for the…
- Author Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth, 1847-1931
- Publisher Smithsonian Institution
- Contributor Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan Co.
- Subject Specific gravity, Boiling-points, Melting points, Reference books, Physical constants, Chemical elements, Chemical elements--Thermal properties, Chemicals--Properties, Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth, 1847-1931
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Plastics: Colorful Practical Housewares
- 1952
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement features a stylized…
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The Plastic That Opens the Door
- Circa 1946
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement features an…
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The Plastic That Opens Your Purse
- 1945
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement features an…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Women in advertising
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Styron: The Right Plastic
- 1947
Color print advertisement for wall tile made from Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement…
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Only 100% Saran Gives You This Lasting Beauty for Casual Living
- 1953
Color print advertisement for Saran, the trade name for polyvinylidene chloride, which can be formed into monofilaments or a thin plastic film. The advertisement shows a young girl playing in the front seat of a car…
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The Plastic Fabric That's "Ready for Rumpus!"
- Circa 1946
Color print advertisement for Saran fabric, made from Saran textile monofilaments. The advertisement features a small illustration of young boys playing on a sofa upholstered with Saran fabric. The boys are dressed in…
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A Lustrous Screen Star -- For Your Home!
- 1945-May-26
Color print advertisement for screening made from Saran, the trade name for polyvinylidene chloride, which can be formed into monofilaments or a thin plastic film. The advertisement shows a smiling woman overlaid by…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Screens, Women in advertising
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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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There's a Good Trimming Coming
- Advertisement for Ethocel
- 1945
Color print advertisement for plastic trim made from Ethocel, the brand name for Dow Ethylcellulose. The advertisement shows an illustrated scene of a young girl taking a cookie from a baking sheet in a brightly-colored…
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The Inside Story of the Plastic Nozzle
- 1942
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement shows a photograph of a woman holding a garden hose, while two young girls in bathing suits play in the water. There is also a close-up inset of a plastic…
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New Ideas...From Plastics
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement shows a young boy…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Children in advertising
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You Have a Date with Plastics
- After 1945
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement shows a blond woman against a black background. A pair of hands brushes her hair with a plastic comb, as an assembly line of plastic beauty products emanates…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Women in advertising
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“Nothing Saves Like Saran Wrap”
- 1958-Nov
Color print advertisement for Saran Wrap, a product of the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features small photographs of food items wrapped in Saran film, as well as a testimonial from "Lucille Thompson,"…
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Plastics: American as Apple Pie
- 1950-Mar-11
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement features an illustration of a young boy eating a slice of apple pie at a kitchen counter covered with plastic tableware. The accompanying text describes the…
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Make Their Dreams Come True!
- Advertisement for Styron 475
- Circa 1952
Color print advertisement for Styron 475, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement features sets of…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Plastic toys, Children in advertising
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Dress Holiday Butter Cookies in the Best
- Circa 1961
Color print advertisement for Saran Wrap, a product of the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features a photograph of a plate of cookies being covered in Saran Wrap by a pair of manicured hands. The package of…
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Nothing Saves Like Saran Wrap
- 1959-Oct
Color print advertisement for Saran Wrap, a product of the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features a photograph of a table at a bake sale, covered with baked goods wrapped in Saran. Smaller photographs…
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The Baker's Book [Volume II]
- A Practical Hand Book of the Baking Industry in all Countries
- 1903
The illustrated second volume of The Baker's Book, providing a comprehensive discussion of baking. Intended to be "every baker's hand book," the series describes the global history and significance of baked goods,…
- Contributor Braun, Emil
- Publisher D. Van Nostrand Company
- Subject Baking, Bread, Cooking (Bread), Bread--Composition, Bread molds (Baking), Baking--Equipment and supplies, Cookbooks
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342 items
The Baker's Book [Volume I]
- A Practical Hand Book of the Baking Industry in all Countries
- 1901
The illustrated first volume of The Baker's Book, providing a comprehensive discussion of baking knowledge. Intended to be "every baker's hand book," the series describes the global history and significance of baked…
- Contributor Braun, Emil
- Publisher D. Van Nostrand Company
- Subject Baking, Bread, Cooking (Bread), Bread--Composition, Bread molds (Baking), Baking--Equipment and supplies, Cookbooks
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15 items
Nostrums and Quackery
- Articles on the Nostrum Evil, Quackery and Allied Matters Affecting the Public Health; Reprinted... from the Journal of the American Medical Association
- 1911
Volume two of three, compiled by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The volume consists of a collection of pseudo-scientific printings outlining fraudulent medicinal treatments. The quackery included in…
- Author American Medical Association
- Editor Cramp, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1872-
- Subject Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Women's health services, Drugs, Therapeutics, Drugs, Nonprescription, Obesity--Treatment, Sexism in medicine, Drug addiction--Treatment, Public health, Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
