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Title: John J. Raskob to William A. Brady, 1923-04-13
Date(s): 1923-04-13
Contributor(s): Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (correspondent), Brady, William A., 1863-1950 (correspondent)
Description: Letter regarding John J. Raskob's interest in an aspiring actress.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100625_001
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Geraldine Farrar Listening to Herself As Madame Butterfly
Date(s): 1914-03
Contributor(s): Victor Talking Machine Company (originator)
Description: From: The National Geographic Magazine
Collection ID: David Sarnoff Library digital archive (Accession AVD.2464.001)
Hagley ID: NatGeo03-14
Collection: David Sarnoff Library

Title: A Twentieth Century Goddess
Date(s): 1924-03-25
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'Scattering rose petals to the four winds as a blessing on the round the world flyers for whom she was nominated as the goddess of flight, Miss Edna French, a member of a New York theatrical company, formed a pretty picture at Curtiss Field, Long Island, Tuesday, March 25.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 1975360_00292
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Adventures in Sewing: How to Make an Evening Bag
Date(s): 1950
Description: Episode 7. Louise Winslow teaches the viewer how to craft an evening bag out of nylon brocade, satin, and muslin with Domestic Sewing Machine model #717. She also demonstrates how to attach lace to the bottom of a dress slip and apply a design to a place mat using a special zig zag attachment. Winslow concludes by explaining how the sewing machine, along with written direction sheets and patterns, can be purchased.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC186
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Adventures in Sewing: Custom Tailoring a Skirt
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Onscreen presenter) (Screenwriter), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Ranallo, Charles (Director)
Description: Episode 3. Louise Winslow demonstrates the steps to tailor a skirt, including adding a zipper, putting on a waist band, pressing the wool fabric, and hemming the lining. She also promotes Domestic sewing machine model #735 and highlights its usability and attachment features.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC205
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Adventures in Sewing: Be Your Own Dressmaker, Fitting the Dress
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Onscreen presenter) (Screenwriter), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Ranallo, Charles (Director)
Description: Episode 12. Louise Winslow teaches the viewer how to properly stitch and fit a dress using Domestic sewing machine model #717. She also demonstrates how to use the "magic key button hole worker" attachment, highlights the storage compartments in the machine's flat-top, knee-hole desk, and instructs how to obtain written direction sheets. A continuation from Episode 11.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC200
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Adventures in Sewing: Custom Tailoring a Jacket, Finishing the Garment
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Onscreen presenter) (Screenwriter), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Ranallo, Charles (Director)
Description: Episode 6. Louise Winslow finishes sewing the jacket from episodes 4 and 5 and teaches the viewer how to stitch and press the sleeves, put in the lining, and create garment weights. She also promotes Domestic sewing machine model #735.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC211
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Adventures in Sewing: Custom Tailoring a Jacket, Making Bound Button-holes
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Onscreen presenter) (Screenwriter), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Ranallo, Charles (Director)
Description: Episode 5. Louise Winslow continues sewing and tailoring the suit jacket from episode 4. She instructs the viewer how to create and press bound button holes, as well as stitch sleeves. She also promotes the deluxe Domestic sewing machine model #787 in the color "blonde."
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC213
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Adventures in Sewing: Custom Tailoring a Suit
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Onscreen presenter) (Screenwriter), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Ranallo, Charles (Director)
Description: Episode 2. Louise Winslow instructs the viewer on how to custom-tailor a suit. She select a suit style for a woman named Suzette and demonstrates how the fabric is cut and sewed using a flat-top, knee-hole Domestic sewing machine desk. Winslow also promotes the booklet "101 Ways to Save with your Sewing Machine."
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC184
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Adventures in Sewing: Be Your Own Dressmaker, Cutting the Dress
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Onscreen presenter) (Screenwriter), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Ranallo, Charles (Director)
Description: Episode 11. Louise Winslow presents Domestic sewing machine model #717 and instructs the viewer on how to cut and stitch a homemade dress. She highlights the simplified threading feature and numerous storage compartments on the sewing machine.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC191
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Adventures in Sewing: How to Make Curtains
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Onscreen presenter) (Screenwriter), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Ranallo, Charles (Director)
Description: Episode 9. Louise Winslow introduces Domestic sewing machine model #787 and instructs the viewer on how to measure, cut, and sew criss-cross window curtains. She also presents the various hemming and ruffler attachments available for the machine.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC207
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Adventures in Sewing production scripts
Date(s): 1949, 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (sponsor), Winslow, Louise (Actor)
Description: Includes four television commercial scripts in which actress, Louise Winslow tells the audience to watch her new series, "Adventures in Sewing." Included is one film script from an episode of "Adventures in Sewing," in which Winslow instructs her audience how to finish tailoring a jacket garment while demonstrating features of the Domestic brand sewing machine. Also included are three scripts from the "Through the Kitchen Window" film series, in which Winslow demonstrates different cooking...
Show moreIncludes four television commercial scripts in which actress, Louise Winslow tells the audience to watch her new series, "Adventures in Sewing." Included is one film script from an episode of "Adventures in Sewing," in which Winslow instructs her audience how to finish tailoring a jacket garment while demonstrating features of the Domestic brand sewing machine. Also included are three scripts from the "Through the Kitchen Window" film series, in which Winslow demonstrates different cooking techniques and products while making a dish.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_05_17
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Food is Fun production script
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft Productions, Inc. (Production company), American Gas Association (sponsor), Winslow, Louise (Author)
Description: In this script for a film production series hosted by actress, Louise Winslow, kitchen gas appliances are demonstrated for their superior abilities to cook food. Winslow puts together a meal while describing the perks and attributes of gas appliances.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_02_03
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Wear-Ever Aluminum Foil Kitchen Magic production materials
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft Productions, Inc. (Production company), Aluminum Company of America (sponsor), Winslow, Louise (Actor)
Description: These scripts for a series of brief, five-minute film productions are written for actress, Louise Winslow. In the series, Winslow demonstrates a recipe while emphasizing her use of Wear-Ever aluminum foil and discussing the importance of foil in the process of cooking. Also included is a proposal which outlines a treatment for a motion picture titled, "Opportunity Unlimited" intended to recruit new men for employment at Wear-Ever.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_01_16
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Kitchen Chats
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Aluminum Company of America (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Host)
Description: A collection of six "Kitchen Chats" episodes starring Louise Winslow: Tips on Broiling Meat, How to Serve Leftovers, A Better Way to Broil Fish, New Ways to Store Foods, How to Roast Fowl, and Baking with a Silver Lining. In each episode, Winslow demonstrates how to prepare or store various foods with Wear-Ever Foil, an aluminum cooking foil.
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC453
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Food is Fun
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): American Gas Association (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (hst)
Description: Louise Winslow, a home economist, shows the viewer how to make an angel food cake and a ham dinner. Includes a sales pitch for gas-powered refrigerators. Directed by Charles Ranallo.
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC052
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Joanne Hayward
Date(s): 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Contributor(s): Workman, David (photographer)
Description: Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_1115
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Dixie Waring
Date(s): 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Contributor(s): Workman, David (photographer)
Description: Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_1114
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Patti Beems
Date(s): 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Contributor(s): Workman, David (photographer)
Description: Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_1118
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Crescendo, The DuPont Show of the Month
Date(s): 1957
Creator: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Contributor(s): Colleran, Bill (director), Ustinov, Peter (screenwriter), Stevens, Leslie, 1924-1998 (screenwriter), Gregory, Paul, 1920-2015 (producer), Harrison, Rex (actor), Andrews, Julie (actor), Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (singer), Arnold, Eddy, 1918-2008 (singer), Carroll, Diahann (singer), Channing, Carol (singer), Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972 (singer), James, Sonny (singer), Kaye, Stubby (actor), Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002 (singer), Mattox, Matt (dancer), Miles, Lizzie (singer), Murphy, Turk (musician), Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 (musician), Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963 (singer)
Description: Production #2262. An Englishman (Rex Harrison) visits America and is initially pessimistic about the culture. However once he's introduced to a rich diversity of musical genres, he begins to overcome his preconceptions. Commercials for DuPont 'better living through chemistry.'
Collection ID: DuPont Company films and commercials (Accession 1995.300)
Hagley ID: FILM_1995300_FC360_361_edited
Collection: DuPont Company films and commercials

Title: Marian Anderson : the voice Toscanini described as "heard once in a hundred years," sings Schubert's Ave Maria
Date(s): 1945-03-12
Contributor(s): RCA-Victor Company (originator), Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 (depicted)
Description: Red Seal Records advertisement.
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277), Life Magazine
Hagley ID: AVDJOPN2014_rca-victor-marion-anderson-1
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics

Title: Marian Anderson : One of a series of portraits of Great Victor Artists
Date(s): 1943-07-19
Contributor(s): RCA-Victor Company (originator), Baker, Ernest Hamlin, 1889-1975 (artist), Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 (depicted)
Description: Red Seal Records advertisement.
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277), Time : magazine
Hagley ID: AVDJOPN2014_RCA-Anderson-gatorad
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics

Title: Elizabeth Taylor : Hollywood's eternally bejeweled star inspires a stellar collection of fashion jewelry for Avon
Date(s): 1994
Contributor(s): Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011 (associated name)
Hagley ID: LizTaylor_PR_20101122_1994
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Adventures in Sewing: How to Make Draperies
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Winslow, Louise (Onscreen presenter) (Screenwriter), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Ranallo, Charles (Director)
Description: Episode 10. Louise Winslow presents the "cabinet style" Domestic sewing machine model #735 with an "easy up head lift." She uses the machine to instruct the viewer on how to properly sew draperies for residential windows. Winslow also promotes the complimentary booklet "How to Make Curtains, Draperies, and Slip Covers."
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC189
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Morena Baruch, Lois Wilson, Ralph Forbes, and friend lounging on boulders
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Description: Handwritten on verso: 'Lois Wilson, Miss Morena Baruch and Laidy (?) Guest from New York City, and Gentleman is Ralph Forbes, movie star.'
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_0028
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

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