"We Bought the Light Ones -- Didn't We Mother?"
Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of a young girl and her mother, who is pruning a small tree with a pair of pruning shears. There are also small inset illustrations showing the fabrication process of magnesium, including a worker in a Dow plant, a man finishing an aircraft door made of magnesium and a railway dock board in use. The advertisement also features the Dowmetal logo, a hand holding a winged ingot of magnesium. The accompanying text describes the use of magnesium to manufacture lightweight and durable household goods such as pruning shears.
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Dow Chemical Company. “‘We Bought the Light Ones -- Didn't We Mother?",” 1946. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 4. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/jw3fghi.
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