Marshall B. Johnson research collection of industrial design and housewares

About this collection

    Marshall Johnson (1938 - ), an industrial designer, worked for some of the most well-known small appliance companies and designed many popular products. He began working at Black & Decker, Inc., designing portable power tools and lawn and garden power tools. He went on to work as a corporate industrial designer for ALCOA, and later as a designer of small appliances and cookware for Wear-Ever, Proctor Silex, and Hamilton Beach, as those companies merged and evolved through the years.
    The Marshall B. Johnson research collection of industrial design and housewares (Accession 2268) consists of Johnson's career files and artifacts from the various companies for whom he worked, historical and research materials on the companies and their products, files on industrial designers, and Johnson's personal papers which include materials on his family, childhood, education, interests, and other activities.
    Image: Wear-Ever Aluminum, Inc., 'Just Your Speed . . . ', ca. 1976. Click here to view in the collection.
    Support for the processing of this collection was provided by a grant from NHPRC.

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