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8 items
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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8 items
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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8 items
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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8 items
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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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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Oral history interview with Jean S. Kane
- 2012-Feb-27 – 2012-Feb-28
Jean S. Kane grew up mostly in Tenafly, New Jersey. Although her father was an accountant, Jean was the first in her family to attend college. She began at Keuka College, intending to get a nursing degree, but she…
- Interviewee Kane, Jean S.
- Interviewer Gross, Benjamin
- Subject Kane, Jean S., 1940-, Chemistry, Women in chemistry, Geological Survey (U.S.), Spectrum analysis, Standard Reference Materials Program (National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)), International Organization for Standardization, Geochemistry, Analytical geochemistry, Standard reference materials, Women in science, Chemists, Women chemists
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9 items
Colours Fast to Light for Staining Wood
- Lichtechte farbstoffe zum beizen von holz
- Colorants solides 'a la lumière pour mordants pour bois
- 1911
Sample book for dyeing solutions on wood from Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co.—the first incarnation of the modern pharmaceutical company Bayer AG established to manufacture and sell synthetic dyestuffs.…
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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…
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President Henry Morton, Ph. D.
- 1892-Feb-15
Frontispiece of Biographical notice of Pres't Henry Morton, PH. D. showing a photographic reproduction of a painted portrait of Henry Morton (1836-1902). Morton was the first president of the Stevens Institute of…
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Biographical notice of Pres't Henry Morton, Ph. D., of the Stevens Institute of Technology
- Prepared on the occasion of the presentation to the trustees and faculty
- 1892-Feb-15
A biographical account of Henry Morton (1836-1902), written to accompany the presentation of Morton's painted portrait to the Stevens Institute of Technology trustees. A reproduction of the portrait is shown in the…
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Painting is Easy, Now
- 1953-May
Black and white print advertisement for Dow Latex Paints, a fast-drying and durable interior wall paint manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a man painting a wall and a woman cleaning paint from a rolling…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Advertising, Industrial, Latex paint, Interior painting, Chemical industry, Paint industry and trade
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Anyone Can Use Latex Paint Anytime
- 1954-May
Black and white print advertisement for Dow Latex Paints, a fast-drying and durable interior wall paint manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a man, woman, and young boy all contributing to painting a wall.…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Advertising, Industrial, Latex paint, Interior painting, Chemical industry, Paint industry and trade
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Ease is Paint's Newest Ingredient
- 1952-Nov-15
Black and white print advertisement for Dow Latex Paints, a fast-drying and durable interior wall paint manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company. Includes five images demonstrating the qualities of Dow Latex paints. In…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Advertising, Industrial, Latex paint, Interior painting, Chemical industry, Paint industry and trade
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Only Latex Paints Perform Like This
- 1953-Apr-18
Black and white print advertisement for Dow Latex Paints, a fast-drying and durable interior wall paint manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a paintbrush applying paint to a wall, a paintbrush being rinsed…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Advertising, Industrial, Latex paint, Interior painting, Chemical industry, Paint industry and trade
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Painting is Easier...Everywhere!
- 1951
Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical. The advertisement features an illustrated "Santa's workshop" scene, where elves are painting a variety of children's toys. The accompanying text describes recent improvements…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Painting, Santa Claus, Paint industry and trade, Christmas, Advertising, Industrial
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4 items
Chemical industries trade show display (1949)
- 1949
Series of photographs depicting exhibition display panels showcasing various industrial applications of chemicals manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement…
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4 items
Chemical industries trade show display (1949)
- 1949
Series of photographs depicting the Hercules Powder Company exhibition display at a 1949 chemical industries trade show held in New York City.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the…