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Manville Fashion Fabrics

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Advertisement for Manville Fabrics. Extending across entirety of the page, a white triangle in outline. At the points of a triangle, photographs of a woman (at top), girl (at right), and an image of a spinning wheel in a circular shape (at bottom). In between the upper point and the right-most point, the letter “M” in white is draped with yellow fabric. Text in white and yellow, adjacent to each image on the triangle: MANVILLE / FASHION / FABRICS. In bottom right quadrant, nine lines of advertising copy in white text. At bottom left corner, image credits for the composition in white text.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
Client
Manville Fabrics, Inc., USA
Date
ca. 1948
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
Medium
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions
31.2 × 22.3 cm (12 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
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