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Collection Title:
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:
Friese, George.
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1954
Abstract:
Collection consists of union-related pieces of ephemera from George Friese’s career in the plastics industry in the Leominster, Massachusetts area.
Type of Material:
Membership cards.
Handbooks.
Agreements.
Subject:
Labor union members.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastics workers -- Labor unions.

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Collection Title:
Creator:
Furholmen, Erik.
Inclusive Dates:
1939-1959
Abstract:
Patent information, technical reports, publicity, company data, product data; bulk relates to Chicago Molded Plastics Corporation and some of its products.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Brochures.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Technical reports.
Correspondence.
Design patents.
Photographs.
Subject:
Engineers.
Plastics
Business and Industry
Science and medicine
Chemical engineering -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Engineers -- United States.
Plastics -- Coloring.
Plastics -- Extrusion.
Methyl methacrylate.
Plastics industry and trade -- United States.
Plastics machinery industry -- United States.
Polytef.
Styrene.