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Fall Fashion Note: Finer Dry Cleaning for America
- 1945
Color print advertisement for Dowclene synthetic solvents manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for use in dry-cleaning, among other applications. The advertisement shows a smartly dressed woman in a skirt…
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The Buy-Word for Better Plastics in Housewares Made of Styron
- 1949
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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Christmas is More Fun at Our House with Toys Made of Styron
- 1948
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 illustrated…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Plastic toys, Children in advertising, Christmas
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Styron...The RIGHT Plastic! Right in the Public Eye!
- Circa 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 cropped…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Women in advertising, Plastics in packaging
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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 man with a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Advertising, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Children in advertising, Plastic toys
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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…
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What's Behind This Plastic Screen
- Circa 1945
Color print advertisement for Saran, the trade name for polyvinylidene chloride, which can be formed into monofilaments or a thin plastic film. The advertisement features an illustration of man on a stepladder holding a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, World War (1939-1945)
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Fabrics of Saran: A Dow Plastic
- Circa 1947
Color print advertisement for Saran fabric, made from Saran textile monofilaments. Saran is the trade name for polyvinylidene chloride, which can be formed into monofilaments or a thin plastic film. The advertisement…
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The Plastic for Rough Handling!
- Circa 1946
Color print advertisement for Ethocel, the brand name for Dow Ethylcellulose developed and marketed for a range of industrial and commercial uses. The advertisement features a close-up illustration of a machete with a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Ethylcellulose, Consumer goods
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Again Plastics Take a Front Seat!
- 1945
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement features an illustration of a young woman in the driver's seat of a car, with a puppy next to her. There are paw prints visible on the car upholstery. The…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Advertising, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Textile fabrics, Women in advertising
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"Just Wrap it Up ... I Can Carry This Light One Home"
- Circa 1945
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a grandfather purchasing a ride-on toy car for his grandson. The grandfather remarks on the lightness…
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Ready... to Make Products Move! Magnesium
- 1945-Oct-27
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The two-page spread includes a description of Dow's hearty infrastructure for the extraction and supply of…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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Ever Go 'Round with a Buzz Saw?
- Circa 1947
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a smiling man lifting a buzz saw. The accompanying text describes how bulky tools such as buzzsaws are…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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Magnesium: The Metal of Motion
- 1945-Aug-27
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features illustrated depictions of Dowmetal in use in the home equipment industries, with…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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"Lift it Yourself!"
- 1947
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts two men dressed in overalls, one holding a large ladder with one arm to demonstrate how lightweight…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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Ever Bumped by Dead Weight?
- Circa 1947
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a downcast man sitting on his luggage while a plane departs in the background. A second image shows a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Airplanes, Airplanes--Parts
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"Just Pick it Up!"
- 1947
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a mother and father smiling at their son who lifts a bicycle with one arm to demonstrate how…
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"Just Feel How Light!"
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a man and woman lifting a baby stroller to demonstrate how lightweight it is. The accompanying text…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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Ever Lift a Warp Beam?
- Circa 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a woman lifting a large spool, or warp beam, above her head, demonstrating how lightweight it is. The…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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What Are You Going to Do Tomorrow?
- 1947
Color print advertisement celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Dow Chemical Company. Includes an image of a sunset over a body of water and a statement from Dow acknowledging their "half-century of progress in…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Corporations, Business enterprises--Growth
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Here's a Plastic to Talk Over!
- Circa 1946
Color print advertisement for Ethocel, the brand name for Dow Ethylcellulose. The advertisement features an illustration of a woman talking on a telephone, accompanied by her young daughter playing with a toy telephone…
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This Plastic is Right at Home!
- Circa 1946
Color print advertisement for Ethocel, the brand name for Dow Ethylcellulose developed and marketed for a range of industrial uses. The advertisement features an illustrated scene of a man in an armchair listening to…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Ethylcellulose, Children in advertising
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The Plastic Fabric for "Coverage" Against Accidents
- Circa 1946
Color print advertisement for Saran fabric, made from Saran textile monofilaments. The advertisement features a color illustration of a mother and son riding a train. The boy appears to have knocked a suitcase to the…
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Extending an Enjoyable Life Expectancy
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical Pharmaceutical Division. The advertisement features an illustrated scene of an elderly couple leaving church. The accompanying text attributes increases in life expectancy to…
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Speaking For Every Army Nurse
- 1945
Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company in promotion of the Army Nurse Corps. The advertisement features an illustration of a woman's head wearing a military helmet, against the backdrop of the Red Cross…