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Plastics Add Sales Appeal

  • 1952-Nov-03

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Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics, featuring the Servel Electric Wonderbar portable refrigerette. The advertisement includes a black-and-white photograph of a man at a party preparing drinks at an Electric Wonderbar, a small portable refrigerator and icemaker. The accompanying text describes the use of Styron in the Wonderbar. Styron is the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. This advertisement appeared on page 63 of the November 3, 1952 edition of Time.

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  • 11.25 in. H 8.25 in. W
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  • Box 9

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Dow Chemical Company. “Plastics Add Sales Appeal,” November 3, 1952. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 9. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/3xa4x78.

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