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You Have a Date with Plastics

  • After 1945

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Color print advertisement for Dow Plastics. The advertisement shows a blond woman against a black background. A pair of hands brushes her hair with a plastic comb, as an assembly line of plastic beauty products emanates from the comb. The accompanying text promotes the use of plastics for a wide range of household and consumer goods. The text mentions Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company.

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  • 13.75 in. H x 10.5 in. W
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 9

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Dow Chemical Company. “You Have a Date with Plastics,” n.d. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 9. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/605v0k5.

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