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Advertisements, Ephemera

From the Sea...A New and More Useful Treasure!

  • Advertisement for Dow Magnesium

  • 1941

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Color print advertisement for magnesium alloys manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement depicts a group of pirates digging for buried treasure, with accompanying text summarizing Dow's extraction of magnesium from seawater. The advertisement also details Dow's efforts to scale up production to meet wartime demand and speculates about potential postwar applications.

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  • 13.5 in. H x 10.5 in. W
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Rights Public Domain Mark 1.0
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 8

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Magnesium, from the Sea to the Stars

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Dow Chemical Company. “From the Sea...A New and More Useful Treasure!,” 1941. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 8. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/rsl63t4.

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