Search Results
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
49 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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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
-
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…
-
13 items
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…
-
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
-
Saran: Piped Through Plastic!
- 1942
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 coiled length of plastic tubing made from Saran…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Tubes, World War (1939-1945)
-
Metals March to War...On Bubbles!
- 1943
Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement highlights the use of Xanthates, a flotation reagent used for the separation and concentration of metal-bearing ores. An illustration shows a series…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Metallurgy, Xanthates, World War (1939-1945), Flotation reagents
-
Powerhouse in Plastics!
- Circa 1942
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement features a detailed illustration of a battery used in communications equipment. The battery is encased in plastic. In the foreground, a man in military…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, World War (1939-1945), Electric batteries
-
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…
-
Saran: Piped Through Plastic
- Circa 1942
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 coiled length of plastic tubing made from Saran.…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Tubes
-
New Strength for Future Fabrics
- Circa 1943
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…
-
The Finest Seats - 5 Cents!
- 1940-Dec-07
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…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Advertising, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Textile industry, Textile fabrics
-
Plastic Eyes of the Air!
- Circa 1943
Color print advertisement for Ethocel, the brand name for Dow Ethylcellulose marketed for its flexibility and shock resistance under extreme high and low temperatures. The advertisement features a stylized illustration…
-
Ethocel: Stripcoat
- Circa 1943
Color print advertisement for Stripcoat, a protective coating made from Dow Ethylcellulose (branded as Ethocel). The advertisement features an illustration of metal parts being dipped in Stripcoat, shipped via…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, World War (1939-1945), Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Ethylcellulose
-
Frozen in Plastic
- 1942-Feb-23
Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement features a photograph of an ice cube tray made from Ethocel, the brand name for Dow Ethylcellulose marketed for its flexibility and shock resistance under…
-
Ethocel -- Shock Resistance at Zero
- Circa 1943
Color print advertisement for Ethocel, the brand name for Dow Ethylcellulose marketed for its flexibility and shock resistance under extreme high and low temperatures. The advertisement features an illustration of a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Advertising, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Ethylcellulose, World War (1939-1945)