Home construction and maintenance technical files--paints and painting, 1924-1981.

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Home construction and maintenance technical files--paints and painting, 1924-1981.

The records document Consumers' Reasearch's testing, research, and projects relating to painting the home. Included are correspondence, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, product literature, test results, operating manuals, advertisements, and purchase orders. Topics include house paints, paint maintenance, paints and coatings, paints in emulsions, acrylic paints, resin paints, rubber and latex paints, aluminum paint, luminescent paint, putty, and protective coating enamels. Other sujects included are painting methods, processes, and techniques; paints for metal, wood, textiles and concrete; painting tools including rollers, brushes, cleaners and sprayers; finishers, stains, varnishes, fillers, paint removers, glues or cements, and glass cutting.

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Rutgers University

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Consumers' Research, Inc.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...