"Ideas for old rooms and new:" from the scrapbook of Hazel Dell Brown, Armstrong Cork Company, Lancaster, Pa., 1944

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1944

Location Note

Box 9

GUSN

GUSN-360890

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Description

The trade catalog is structured as if readers are sending in letters to designer Hazel Dell Brown, the chief interior designer of the Armstrong Cork Company. Each problem surrounds a specific room of the house, with each solution suggesting the use of the Armstrong Cork Company's products to liven up the space.

Details

Descriptive Terms

articles
interior design
advertising
renovation
business (commercial function)
linoleum
letters (correspondence)
printed ephemera
trade catalogs

Physical Descrption

1 trade catalog ; 8 1/2 x 11 inches

Collection Code

EP005

Collection Name

Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

Date of Acquisition

2023

Reference Code

EP005.617

Credit Line

Gift of Richard Cheek, 2023

Places

Lancaster (Lancaster county, Pennsylvania)

Record Details

Originator

Armstrong Cork Company (Publisher)
Brown, Hazel Dell

Material Type

printed ephemera
trade catalogs

Other People

Brown, Hazel Dell

Other Organizations

Armstrong Cork Company

Subjects

Advertisement
Linoleum
Cork

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Box 9

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