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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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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…
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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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Styron...the Right Plastic!
- 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 photographs of…
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Beauty for All Time -- In 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 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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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 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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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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DDT : Killer of Killers
- 1946
Illustrated volume describing DDT insecticide and its development, history, purpose, health effects, formulations, and use. Includes seven chapters, twenty-four black and white photographic plates, and an appendix…
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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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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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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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"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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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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That Men May Live As Neighbors
- Advertisement for Dow Industrial Chemicals
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical's Industrial Chemical Division. The advertisement features an illustrated scene of a city block. The accompanying text promotes the use of industrial chemicals for mass…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Sanitation, Sewage
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"We Bought the Light Ones -- Didn't We Mother?"
- Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of a young girl and her mother, who is pruning a small tree with a…