Creator:
Foster Grant (Firm)
Inclusive Dates:
1900- 1989
Abstract:
Foster Grant was an American plastics molding and manufacturing firm specializing in eyewear. Originally founded in
1919 by Sam Foster to produce ladies hair accessories, the first piece of eyewear sold in 1929 at the
Woolworth in Atlantic City. Collection contains company publications and
sales materials including a training binder from the 1970s containing photographs and handwritten
directions on how to create an epoxy mold; and photographs of die molds, Foster Grant products from
World War II and sales displays.
Type of Material:
Sunglasses.
Photographs.
Promotional materials.
Training manuals.
Subject:
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Sunglasses industry.
Sunglasses.
Eyeglasses.
Plastics -- Molds.
Creator:
Foster, Harold R. (Harold Rudolf), 1892-1982.
Inclusive Dates:
1936- 1973
Abstract:
Papers of the American cartoonist, distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Includes correspondence, original artwork and color proofs for Prince Valiant; artwork for
Medieval Castle, scrapbooks and photographs, printed material as well as
material related to Foster's appearance on the television show, "This is Your Life".
Type of Material:
Cartoons (humorous images)
Correspondence.
Comic strips.
Promotional materials.
Engraver's proofs.
Video recordings.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Scrapbooks.
Photograph albums.
Subject:
Medieval castle.
Prince Valiant.
Cartoonists.
Art -- Cartoonists
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Knights and knighthood -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Middle Ages -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.