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Open icebox with a block of ice and food inside, 1930-1937

Description:
Open icebox with a block of ice and food inside. The label, center top, reads "Ward Cabinet[...]". The organization of the food follows recommended guidelines with dairy below the ice block on the left, and, on the right, fruit and vegetables at the top, cooked vegetables and eggs in the middle and meat at the bottom.
Date:
[between 1930-1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Open icebox with a block of ice and food inside, 1930-1937

"Double X Floor Cleaner," "Savabrush," and "Waxoff" athletic figures pole vaulting in an advertisement photograph, circa 1936

Description:
Containers of "Double X Floor Cleaner," "Savabrush," and "Waxoff" ornamented to resemble athletes with arms, legs and athletic shorts and shoes added, positioned to look like they are pole vaulting over a bar with a sign reading "A New Sales-High For 1936."
Date:
[circa 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
"Double X Floor Cleaner," "Savabrush," and "Waxoff" athletic figures pole vaulting in an advertisement photograph, circa 1936

Photo shoot set-up for the "California Fruit Growers," California, between 1925-1939

Description:
Photo shoot set-up for the "California Fruit Growers" (perhaps the California Fruit Growers Exchange). The set, illuminated by 10 lights on stands, is a kitchen with a refrigerator, stove and with a mixer and a citrus juicer on the counter. A man and a woman stand in the kitchen and another man and woman look on from the right.
Date:
[between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Photo shoot set-up for the "California Fruit Growers," California, between 1925-1939

Man in a lab coat next to promotional information about Adohr milk

Description:
View of a man in a lab coat facing away holding up a pencil. Next to him are a chair and promotional literature about Adohr milk, titled "Don't make this mistake about milk! Adohr...More first awards for quality and purity than all other brands combined." The promotional material includes a drawing of 2 women standing in front of 2 giant bottles of milk with a trophy in the background.
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Man in a lab coat next to promotional information about Adohr milk

Advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bars

Description:
Advertisement photograph for Ghirardelli chocolate bars with a chocolate bar in the foreground, and with "Ghirardelli's" and the profile of a baker in a chef's hat and holding a baker's peel appearing as shadows in the background. In addition, "Ghirardelli's" appears in bold black letters applied to a plate of glass -- used to create the shadow. "Ghirardelli Since 1852" is embossed ion the top chocolate bar.
Date:
[between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bars

Man and woman speaking at a sound stage or radio station with technicians at the controls, 1930-1950

Description:
Man and woman standing behind a window, speaking or singing, in front of a microphone at a sound stage or radio station. A technician is seated in front of the window at a desk with controls and another technician operates controls on a panel. This may be related in some manner to the National Auto Shop reference on the negative sleeve.
Date:
[between 1930-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Man and woman speaking at a sound stage or radio station with technicians at the controls, 1930-1950

Photomontage advertisement for "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1934

Description:
Photomontage advertisement for "Double X Floor Cleaner" with a can of the product on a wooden floor. A line of 14 repeated images of a woman mopping, and a circle of 19 images of a men mopping have cleaned areas of a wooden floor. "Double X Makes Old Floors New" is displayed in three-dimensional letters and "Makes Varnish Vanish" appears on a circular cleaned area of the floor.
Date:
[circa 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Photomontage advertisement for "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1934

Photomontage composition showing a bar graph scaled by mountain climbers to illustrate the sales growth of "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1931

Description:
Photomontage composition showing a bar graph made of strips of floor boards with the years from 1924 to 1931 along the bottom apparently showing the sales growth of "Double X Floor Cleaner" during that time. Superimposed are photographic images of small men wearing lederhosen and holding picks and ropes scaling the bar graph. A strong light casting a dark shadow against the wall behind, enlarges the figures and graph bars, increasing the drama of the scene and giving it a cinematic aspect.
Date:
[circa 1931]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Photomontage composition showing a bar graph scaled by mountain climbers to illustrate the sales growth of "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1931