Trade show at Syria Mosque: Pet Milk promotional display

ca. 1945-1963

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Trade show at Syria Mosque: Pet Milk promotional display
  • Title
  • Trade show at Syria Mosque: Pet Milk promotional display
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1945-1963
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.339
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.339
  • Description
  • A man in a suit watches as a young woman pours a sample of PET brand non-fat dry milk at a promotional booth. PET milk is a product of the Helvetia Milk Condensing Company (1885). PET milk became increasingly popular after 1933 when Erma Proetz began broadcasting her how-to show for the American homemaker called the 'Mary Lee Taylor Program.' In the 1950s the baby boom increased PET sales to its highest point. Signs read 'For Fresh Milk Flavor' and 'Children love its Fresh-Milk Flavor, Nutritious and Thrifty Too!' Style of clothing dates to c. 1950-1960. The booth may have been part of a trade fair, possibly at Oakland's Syria Mosque.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Trade shows--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Syria Mosque (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Advertising--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh