Styron: Putting Plastics in Their Place
- 1944
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of industrial and consumer applications. The advertisement features an illustration of various plastic products, including a plastic beaded necklace draped over a length of plastic piping. Small inset illustrations show a man seated at a control panel and woman at a vanity table. The accompanying text describes how plastic technologies developed for military use will be applied to consumer goods. Notably, the advertisement was produced during World War II and bears the Company's wartime tagline "Dow: Chemicals Indispensable to Industry and Victory."
Property | Value |
---|---|
Creator of work | |
Format | |
Genre | |
Extent |
|
Language | |
Subject | |
Rights | Public Domain Mark 1.0 |
Credit line |
|
Institutional location
Department | |
---|---|
Collection | |
Physical container |
|
View collection guide View in library catalog
Related Items
Cite as
Dow Chemical Company. “Styron: Putting Plastics in Their Place,” 1944. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 9. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/3lyt6ds.
This citation is automatically generated and may contain errors.