Collection of Raymond Loewy miscellany, 1936-1995.

Coca-Cola Company.

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The Coca-Cola Company was founded in Atlanta, Ga. in 1886 by John Pemberton. The Star Salesman Kit was part of a program developed to train Coca-Cola route salesmen. From the description of Coca-Cola Company Star Salesman Kit, 1949-1951. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 686792008 The Coca-Cola Company originated as the Pemberton Chemical Company (1886). The Pemberton Chemical Company, which developed and marketed a soft drink named "Coca-Cola," was acquired (18...

Armour and Company

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Chicago, IL. From the description of Handbills and pamphlets, ca.1890-1920. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122488908 ...

Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.

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Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation

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In 1970, this Louisville, Kentucky business celebrated its one hundredth year as an independent distillery owned and operated by the same family. The programs staged for the centenary were designed to promote the company and its products and to provide its employees and the local community with an historical perspective of this Louisville firm. From the description of Centennial Celebration, 1937-1974 (bulk 1967-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191915969 Th...

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

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White star line

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Porter, Glenn,

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Glenn Porter, then Director of the Hagley Museum and Library, purchased these items in 2001-2002 for possible use in the exhibit, "Raymond Lowey: Designs for a Consumer Culture." They did not appear in the exhibit, which was curated by Porter and was on display at the Hagley Museum and Library from August 16, 2002, through August 2, 2003. Since the fall of 2005, the exhibit has traveled to various museums in the United States through the services of ExhibitsUSA. From the description ...

Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986

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Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) was an American industrial designer noted for his streamlined style found on hundreds of products, such as Lucky Strike packaging, the Studebaker Starliner, and locomotives on the Pennysylvania RR. From the guide to the Raymond Loewy Studebaker Photographs, 1947, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Industrial designer. Full name: Raymond Fernand Loewy. Born in France; emigrated to the United States in 1919. ...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Abbott Laboratories

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Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)

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General Motors Corporation. Frigidaire Division

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The first commercially successful electric household refrigerator was produced in the U.S. and offered for sale in 1913. Invented by Fred W. Wolf and called the Domelre, it was an air-cooled refrigeration unit designed for mounting on top of the customer's ice box. In 1915, Alfred Mellowes, working in a backyard wash house in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, engineered and made an electric refrigerating unit. It differed from other contemporary models because it was self-contained wi...

Schick Inc.

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Rosenthal-Block China Corporation.

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Studebaker Corporation

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The H&C Studebaker blacksmith shop opened in 1852 in downtown South Bend, Indiana. Henry and Clement Studebaker's shop would turn into Studebaker Manufacturing Company in 1868 and become the largest wagon manufacturer in the world. Studebaker would also be the only manufacturer to successfully switch from horse drawn to gasoline powered vehicles. After the turn of the century Studebaker eased its way into the automobile market with an electric car in 1902, followed by gasoline powered cars i...

Gillette Safety Razor Company

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Borg-Erickson Corporation.

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