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Advertisements, Ephemera

You Think the Potentate Rides in State?

  • Advertisement for Saran Fabric

  • 1950-May-13

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Color print advertisement for Lumite, a woven fabric made from Saran textile monofilaments. Saran is the trade name for polyvinylidene chloride. The advertisement shows a generalized and racially-stereotyped depiction of a man in a turban riding in a wheeled carriage drawn by oxen. The accompanying text takes a paternalistic tone, asserting that the "potentate" would be "dazzled" by an automotive with seat covers made from Lumite. This advertisement appeared in the May 13, 1950 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.

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  • 13.75 in. H x 10.75 in. W
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 9

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Dow Chemical Company. “You Think the Potentate Rides in State?,” May 13, 1950. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 9. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/bdideg9.

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