Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Photocopy of a newspaper advertisement design. In black text, above: SHELL FIRST; between these two words is an arrow inserting the words: IS ALWAYS. Another arrow leads to a block of text below: Year by year, ever since the day when / one ran out into the street to see a / motor pass by on its rather uncertain / way, Shell has grown greater in / public esteem. To-day it stands higher / than ever, unapproached in quality. / [in bold black letters] YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Shell-Mex and BP Ltd., London, England
- Date
- ca. 1938
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Photostat on photosensitive paper, mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 25.9 × 16.6 cm (10 3/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Photostat
- Type
- Photostat
