Snowy Egrets Watched the Men in the Marsh
Advertisement for Dow insecticide
- 1966

Rights
Download all 2 images
PDFZIPof full-sized JPGsDownload selected image
Small JPG1200 x 1431px — 213 KBLarge JPG2880 x 3435px — 876 KBFull-sized JPG6883 x 8209px — 3.2 MBOriginal fileTIFF — 6883 x 8209px — 162 MBTransparency copy of a print advertisement for Dursban, an insecticide marketed and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for use against mosquitoes. The advertisement features an illustration of several snowy egrets in a marshland environment. The accompanying text details efforts to test Dursban's effectiveness against the Salt Marsh Mosquito and its impact on fish, birds, and other animals living in swampland near the Dow facility in Freeport, Texas.
Property | Value |
---|---|
Creator of work | |
Format | |
Genre | |
Extent |
|
Language | |
Subject | |
Rights | Public Domain Mark 1.0 |
Credit line |
|
Institutional location
Department | |
---|---|
Collection | |
Exhibited in | |
Physical container |
|
Related Items
Cite as
Dow Chemical Company, and John MacManus. “Snowy Egrets Watched the Men in the Marsh,” 1966. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 7. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cc08hg50x.
This citation is automatically generated and may contain errors.
