Text from front: "Uncle Sam supplying the world with Berry Bros. Hard Oil Finish." Text from back: "Berry Brothers Varnish Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich...For sale by J.D. Orcutt, dealer in Drugs, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, etc., Painted Post, N.Y."
The durability of synthetic resin finishes, even under the most unusual conditions, was shown at the former DuPont Exhibition in the New York Museum of Science and Industry, Rockefeller Center. On top of the hardwood disc, covered with a synthetic...
Photograph of William du Pont, Jr.'s champion racehorse Rosemont winning the 1937 Santa Anita Derby. Seabiscuit, ridden by Red Pollard, is pictured finishing second.