subject: E.I. Du Pont de Nemours&company
description- – A Dupont Viscoloid Company souvenir card from 1928. On the front is an arial image of the DuPont Viscoloid Company of Leminster, Massachusetts. On the back is a 1928 calendar and rulers in inches and centimeters. The image is printed with black and red ink on a rigid ivory celluloid card. The Viscoloid Company was started by Bernard Doyle, one of the first producers of Celluloid in the country. The Viscoloid Company was incorporated in 1901 and by 1923 it was the largest employer in Leominster. In 1925 the company merged with DuPont and changed its name to the DuPont Viscoloid Company. The DuPont Viscoloid Company made dress combs, brushes, toilet articles, ornaments and other novelties such as this celluloid card.
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collectiondatepublishercreatorrelation- – Is part of the Permanent Collections. National Plastics Center and Museum, Leominster, Massachusetts. http://www.plasticsmuseum.org/museum.html#Collection
formatlanguage description- – Vitally important to victory?/ Your good health/ helps you do your part! Today proper care of the teeth---the beauty treatment that has always been a health safeguard too, is more important than ever before. A sparkling smile reveals that you?re on the right road to health. And America?s health is vitally important to victory.This wartime need to keep fit is making thousands of Americans realize that their old toothbrushes just won?t do. They?re getting a Dr. West?s Miracle-Tuft. For only with Miracle-Tuft do you get the greater tooth-cleansing efficiency of ?EXTON? brand bristling, the health safeguard of surgically sterile glass packaging and the economy of a full year of effective service. Be prepared in health as in all other things to serve your country. Equip every member of your family with a Dr. West?s Miracle-Tuft.ONLY DR. WEST?S Miracle-Tuft offers these exclusive advantages 1. ?EXTON? brand bristling for longer life, more efficient tooth-cleansing.2. Surgically sterile glass packaging?germ free delivery to you. 3. A full year of effective service for you, proved by millions of salesAnd at 25 cents, the super value brush of the day? Dr. West?s ?25??An outstanding value made possible by production ?line methods. As fine a brush as it is possible to make at anywhere near this price.
- – A 1943 advertising poster for Dr. West's Miracle-Tuft toothbrushes. The advertisement shows an elegant woman wearing a feathered bathrobe that reveals her shoulders while holding a toothbrush. Also shown is a military communications operator. DuPont toothbrushes were a part of every soldier's basic supplies during World War II, a fact that was often reflected in their advertisements. Dr West's toothbrushes, a brand name created by DuPont, were the first toothbrushes to use Nylon Fibers for bristles after Wallace Hume Carruthes, a Dupont scientist, invented Nylon in 1937.
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collectiondatepublishercreatorrelation- – Is part of the Archival Collections. National Plastics Center and Museum, Leominster, Massachusetts. http://www.plasticsmuseum.org/museum.html#Collection
formatlanguage description- – Doctor Charles Cronin works on the injured hand of Jack Foster while nurse Eleanora Bizzarri assists in the Infirmary at the DuPont"Doyle Works"Factory in Leominster, Massachusetts.
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collectiondatepublishercreatorrelation- – Is part of the DuPont Photograph Collection. National Plastics Center and Museum, Leominster, Massachusetts. http://www.plasticsmuseum.org/museum.html#Collection
formatlanguage description- – The property plan of the DuPont Viscoloid Co. Viscoloid Works in Leominster, Massachusetts. The property plan shows all the buildings, wells, hydrants, roads and railroad tracks that made up the Viscoloid Works on Lancaster Street, in Leominster, Massachusetts. Note the multiple small buildings that made up the complex. Companies that worked with cellulose nitrate used small buildings to minimize the fire risk inherent with working with the flammable material. Buildings on the plan are numbered and contain basic information about their functions. On the left is a chart listing all buildings and notes that list functions, and , where appropriate, when the building was removed. The property plan was originally created on September 3, 1926, but was revised as needed. A chart with the revision dates is listed on the left. The last revision was done on September 19, 1934. The property plan is an enlarged negative image embedded in plastic.
subjectrights- – Text and images are the property of the National Plastics Center and Museum (NPCM) and are protected by copyright. Other individuals or entities other than, and in addition to, the NPCM may also own copyrights and other propriety rights. The NPCM prohibits the copying of any protected materials on this website except for non-commercial use. A credit line is required and should read: Courtesy of the National Plastics Center and Museum. The copyright symbol should accompany the reproduction if applicable. Commercial use of the museum's property is subject to publication fees and/or royalties.
collectiondatepublisherrelation- – Is part of the Archival Collections. National Plastics Center and Museum, Leominster, Massachusetts. http://www.plasticsmuseum.org/museum.html#Collection
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