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Advertisements, Ephemera

"I'm Buying a Really Portable Sewing Machine!"

  • Magnesium: Lightest of All Structural Metals

  • 1946

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Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company's Magnesium Division. The advertisement depicts a mother and daughter carrying a newly-purchased portable sewing machine made from Dowmetal, a product marketed for its lightness and durability relative to other structural metals. This advertisement appeared in a 1946 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.

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

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  • Box 8

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Dow Chemical Company. “‘I'm Buying a Really Portable Sewing Machine!",” 1946. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 8. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/lkkhoi2.

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