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Longer Life for a Dead Forest!

  • 1942

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Color print advertisement for Dowicides, the trade name for a group of fungicide chemicals manufactured and marketed by the Dow Chemical Company as tools to prevent mold and decay. Depicts a group of men using a truck to stand a telephone pole. The accompanying text introduces Dowicide 7, one of 17 Dowicide products used to protect telephone poles from insects and decay. From an issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

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  • 35.5 cm H x 27 cm W
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 8

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Dow Chemical Company. “Longer Life for a Dead Forest!,” 1942. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 8. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/i03jj9m.

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