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Tupperware!
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tupperware/

Description:
Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience program that "charts the origins of the small plastics company that unpredictably became a cultural phenomenon." Features motivational writings from the 1950s, video clips of Tupperware Jubilees, and features on women and work, the history of plastics manufacturing, and life in the 1950s. Includes a program transcript, timeline, teacher's guide, and related links.

Publisher:
PBS Online; WGBH

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Direct selling
Nineteen fifties
Plastic containers
Tupperware (Firm) -- History

LII Database Information:
Record 18457 created by Jennifer English on 02/13/2004
Last modification on 02/16/2004
Published: 02/13/2004  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/18457