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The Dry Cleaner's Best Friend!

  • 1937

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Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical Company depicts a man and woman sitting at a soda fountain counter with a waiter interacting with them. The woman spills ice cream on her dress with a dog by her side lapping up what has spilled on the floor. The accompanying paragraph discusses Dow technicians' work to produce safer, organic and superior dry cleaning solvents than used previously.

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  • 14 in. H x 11 in. W
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 7

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Dow Chemical Company. “The Dry Cleaner's Best Friend!,” 1937. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 7. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/1g05fc30x.

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