Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Earl S. Tupper Papers
Tupper, Earl Silas, 1907-
Tupper Corporation
NMAH.AC.0470
Archival Resource Key
14 Cubic feet
29 boxes, 1 map-folder
2003
1908-1989
Papers documenting inventor Earl S. Tupper, his inventions, Tupperware and the Tupper Company.
Collection text is in English.
Earl S. Tupper Papers: ca. 1914-1982.
Biographical / Historical
Earl Silas Tupper was born in 1907, to a New Hampshire farming family of modest means. During his youth and boyhood in New England, his mother Lulu Clark Tupper, took in laundry and ran a boarding house, while his father, Earnest Leslie operated a small family farm. Earnest Tupper loved to tinker, developing labor-saving devices for the farm and family greenhouses; one of his devices, a frame to facilitate the cleaning of chickens, was granted a patent. It is from his father that Earl Tupper is said to have developed a love for invention. Even as a boy, Tupper showed an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit. At the age of 10, Earl discovered he could move more of the family's produce by selling door-to-door, bringing the product directly to the customer.
After high school graduation in 1925, Tupper continued to work in the family greenhouses in Shirley Massachusetts for two years. Tupper was an ambitious young man, though, and he was determined to earn his first million by the time he was thirty. During the twenties, he set out on a number of different paths, including work as a mail clerk and on a railroad labor crew. In 1928, he took a course in tree surgery, with the idea of setting up his own tree surgery and landscaping business. He continued to help out with the family business, and got married in 1931. Through the early thirties, the landscaping and nursery business continued to grow and thrive, despite the Depression, enabling Tupper to pursue some of his ideas and inventions. His scientific notebooks for this period reflect the diversity of his interests. Even after Tupper Tree Doctors was forced into bankruptcy in 1936, Tupper remained optimistic about his ability to develop and manufacture some of his inventions.
In 1936, Tupper met Bernard Doyle, the inventor of Viscoloid, the plastics manufacturing division of DuPont, located in nearby Leominster, Mass. He went to work for DuPont in 1937, but stayed there only one year. Later, Tupper would say it was at Dupont "that my education really began." Tupper took the experience he had gained in plastics design and manufacturing at DuPont, and struck out on his own. In 1938, he formed the Earl S. Tupper Company, advertising the design and engineering of industrial plastics products in Leominster, Massachusetts. Much of the fledgling company's early work was performed under subcontract to DuPont. Business was good during the war, because despite the difficulty of acquiring the raw materials necessary for plastics production for the domestic market, Tupper Plastics was able to garner several defense contracts, molding parts for gas masks and Navy signal lamps.
After the war, Tupper turned his attention to developing plastics for the growing consumer market. Many of his earliest designs, which included plastic sandwich picks, cigarette cases, and an unbreakable tumbler for the bathroom, were offered as premiums with other products. For example, Tek toothbrushes offered the tumbler with purchase of a toothbrush, and cigarette companies and other businesses offered cigarette cases imprinted with their logo.
Plastics was still in its infancy in the forties, and the commercial market for plastics product was limited by plastic's reputation for being brittle, greasy, smelly and generally unreliable. Tupper's contributions were twofold. First, he developed a method for purifying black polyethylene slag, a waste product produced in oil refinement, into a substance that was flexible, tough, non-porous, non-greasy and translucent. Second, he developed the Tupper seal, an airtight, watertight lid modeled on the lid for paint containers. Together, these innovations laid the foundations for the future success of Tupperware. Nevertheless, marketing the new product presented a challenge. Tupper experimented with department store sales, but as Businessweek reported in 1954, "in retail stores it fell flat on its face." It seemed clear that the new lid required explanation or demonstration.
In the late 1940s, Thomas Damigella (in Massachusetts) and Brownie Wise (in Florida) were selling household products through Stanley Home Products. Purchasing through local plastics distributors, both began offering Tupperware as part of their product line, and were moving enough Tupperware to attract Earl Tupper's attention. In 1948, Tupper met with Damigella, Wise, and several other local distributors at a Sheraton in Worcester Massachusetts to discuss a new distribution plan. Modeled on the home party plan pioneered by Stanley Home Products and expanded and refined by Brownie Wise, the home party plan became and remains the exclusive outlet for Tupperware. Wise was named Vice President of the company (named Tupperware Home Parties) in 1951, a position she held until 1958, when Tupper sold the company to Rexall for $16 million.
Tupperware's success stems from the combined genius of Earl Tupper, the self-styled Yankee inventor and entrepreneur and Brownie Wise, the consummate saleswoman and motivator. If Tupper personified reverence for the product, Wise personified respect for the sales force. "If we build the people," she was fond of saying, "they'll build the business." Almost half a century later, their legacy remains an important part of Tupperware's continuing success.
Earl S. Tupper died on October 5, 1983.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into five series.
Series 1: Personal Papers, 1910-1989
Series 2: Early Business Papers and Scientific Notes, 1930-1965
Series 3: Tupper Corporation/Tupperware Business, 1908-1983
Series 4: Neil Osterweill Oral Histories and Research Notes, 1926-1989
Subseries 4.1: Research Files, 1926-1989
Subseries 4.2: Original Masters, 1987-1989
Subseries 4.3:Research Copies, 1987-1989
Subseries 4.4:Research Copies, 1987-1989
Subseries 4.5: Preservation Copies, undated
Series 5: Center for Advertising History, Oral History Interviews, 1992
Subseries 5.1: Original Masters, 1992
Subseries 5.2: Research Copies, 1992
Subseries 5.3: Research Copies, 1992
Subseries 5.4: Preservation Copies, 1992
Subseries 5.5: Abstracts and Transcripts, 1992, 2003
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the life of inventor Earl S. Tupper through correspondence, notes, photographs, drawings and sound recordings.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research but master (preservation) tapes are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The materials were donated to the Archives Center in 1992 by Glenn O. Tupper, Earl Tupper's son.
Related Materials
Materials in the Archives Center
Leo Baekeland Papers (AC0005)
DuPont Nylon Collection (AC0007)
J. Harry DuBois Collection on the History of Plastics (AC0008)
Celluloid Corporation Records (AC0009)
Albany Billiard Ball Company Records (AC#0011)
Brownie Wise Papers (AC0509)
Ann and Thomas Damigella Collection (AC0583)
Materials at the National Museum of American History
Tupperware related artifacts are located in the Division of Home and Community Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life), the Division of Medicine and Science and the Division of Work and Industry. See accessions: 1983.0711; 1984.1098; 1985.3014; 1985.3015; 1987.0180; 1990.3055; 1992.0209; 1992.0605; 1993.0257; 1994.0118; 1994.0124; 1995.0109; 1998.0070; 1998.0220; 2012.0133; and 2014.3077.
Preferred Citation
Earl S. Tupper Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Processing Information
Processed by Mimi Minnick, archivist, 1996; revised Alison Oswald, archivist, 2004 and 2014.
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century.
Advertising fliers
Business records -- 20th century
Personal papers -- 20th century
Plastics
Photographs -- 20th century
Plastic container industry
Plastic tableware
Product demonstrations
Business -- History
Marketing
advertising
Inventors
Business letters
Notes
Clippings
Family papers
Interviews
Tupperware Home Parties
Tupper, Miles
Tupper, Glenn O.
Personal Papers
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
1910 - 1956
Scope and Contents
This series contains material documenting aspects of Earl Tupper's personal life, particularly his boyhood and youth in New England. School papers, personal correspondence, and a family scrapbook make up the bulk of this series, which also includes a photographic and written appraisal of the family home.
Elementary School materials
Archival Resource Key
circa 1914
1
1
Picturesque Franklin
Archival Resource Key
1891
29
1
Scope and Contents
Picturesque Franklin was the second of a series of "Picturesque" books published by the firm of Wade, Warner and Company; it was published in 1891. The photographer was Clifton Johnson (1865-1940). The book was the first title of a series of illustrated books in the same format about the counties of western and central Massachusetts. The text was written to highlight the things interesting to readers of the time such as descriptions of leading industries. The book profiles local towns, and provides histories and includes many photographs.
Elementary School materials (artwork)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1924 - 1924
1
2
Fitchburg, Massachusetts High School
Archival Resource Key
1923 - 1925
1930 - 1930
1
3
High School notes and papers
Archival Resource Key
1923 - 1925
1
4
High School compositions and tests
Archival Resource Key
1924 - 1924
1
5
High School notebooks and papers
Archival Resource Key
1923 - 1924
1
6
High School notes
Archival Resource Key
1924 - 1925
1
7
Fundamentals of Advertising, International Correspondence Schools
Archival Resource Key
1932 - 1932
1
8
Personal Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
circa 1920s
1
9
Personal Correspondence
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1943 - 1946
1
10
Miscellaneous writings
Archival Resource Key
1937 - 1937
1943 - 1943
1
11
Written Appraisal of the Tupper family home, office and lab
Archival Resource Key
1956 - 1956
1
12
Photographs for appraisal
Archival Resource Key
1956 - 1956
1
13
Tupper Family Scrapbook
Archival Resource Key
1919 - 1921
2
1-2
Earl S. Tupper, personal historical materials
Archival Resource Key
1910 - 1944
2
3
Earl S. Tupper, personal historical materials
Archival Resource Key
1920 - 1938
2
4
Earl S. Tupper, personal historical materials
Archival Resource Key
1987 - 1987
1968 - 1968
2
5
Assembled historical research files
Archival Resource Key
1933 - 1989
2
6-8
Town of Upton, Massachusetts, blueprint
Archival Resource Key
undated
29
4
Early Business Papers and Scientific Notes
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
1930 - 1965
Scope and Contents
This series highlights the business ventures and scientific endeavors in which Tupper was involved in the 1930s, prior to the invention of Tupperware. The business ventures include a greenhouse and tree removal service, while his scientific interests lie largely in the area of containers. Of particular interest are his invention diaries and sketch books.
Tupper's Greenhouses
Archival Resource Key
1930 - 1934
3
1
Tupper Tree Doctors
Archival Resource Key
1926 - 1932
3
2
Tupper Tree Doctors
Archival Resource Key
1933 - 1938
3
3
Tupper's Tree Surgeons (Forestry and tree Surgery), advertisements
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s
29
3
Notes on Inventions
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930s
3
4
Notes on Inventions
[Sketches for the "Dagger Comb" : journal page,]
Archival Resource Key
Tupper, Earl Silas, 1907-
1 Item
Graphite on paper.
11" x 8-1/2"?
February 13, 1937
English.
[Sketches for the "Dagger Comb" : journal page,] February 13, 1937.
Local Numbers
03047007 (AC Scan No.)
Scope and Contents
Holograph: loose-leaf notebook page, 5 holes, containing text and sketches for a Tupper invention, a folding comb which he called a dagger comb. Located in Box 3, Folder 4.
Bibliography
Reproduced in color, with a biographical/historical statement, in Gwen Diehn, "The Decorated Journal: Creating Beautifully Expressive Journal Pages," New York: Lark Books (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.), 2005, p. 47.
Combs
Inventions -- 1920-2000 -- United States
Sketches -- 1930-1940
Holographs -- 1930-1940
Manuscripts -- 1930-1940
Inventors -- 1930-2000
Inventions
Archival Resource Key
1936 - 1936
3
5
Inventions
Archival Resource Key
1937 - 1937
3
6
Inventions
"Inventions Now Ready to Sell"
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undated
3
7
Notes on Visits to Interest Manufacturers in Inventions
Archival Resource Key
1935 - 1936
3
8
Marketing Inventions
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circa 1930s
3
9
Marketing Inventions
Marketing Inventions
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1935 - 1939
3
10
Marketing Container Inventions
Archival Resource Key
1935 - 1935
3
11
Non-refillable bags
Archival Resource Key
1935 - 1935
3
12
Invention Diary and Sketch book
Archival Resource Key
1935 - 1939
4
1
Invention Diary and Sketch book
Wave Dip Comb, drawing
Archival Resource Key
1945-11-23
29
4
Miscellaneous notes on products
Archival Resource Key
undated
1954 - 1954
1949 - 1949
4
2
"Earl S. Tupper, U.S. Grants" (patents)
Archival Resource Key
1 Volume
1946 - 1965
4
3-5
"Earl S. Tupper, U.S. Grants" (1 volume)
Diaries
Archival Resource Key
2 Volumes
1933 - 1934
4
6
Diaries
Archival Resource Key
2 Volumes
1936-1937
5
1
Earl Silas Tupper, illustrations and drawings of his inventions and designs
Archival Resource Key
undated
29
7
Scope and Contents
Book containing 22 pages of color ink illustrations/drawings depicting many of Tupper's inventions and designs. Provenance of artist is unknown.
Tupper Corporation/Tupperware Business Records
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
1908 - 1983
Scope and Contents
This series contains business records, marketing publications and publicity, and photographs for Tupper's most successful endeavor, Tupperware. Most of the photographs are of company personnel and facilities.
Tupperware Business Records
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1950s
5
2
Tupperware/Navy Contract
Archival Resource Key
1948 - 1949
5
3
Tupperware Business Records
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
5
4-6
Price Lists
Archival Resource Key
1948 - 1948
5
7
Tupperware catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1949, 1957, 1958, undated
5
8
Tupperware catalogs
Tupperware Home Parties, demontsration script
Archival Resource Key
1951 - 1951
5
9
Meeting of franchise distributors
Archival Resource Key
1951 September
6
1
Tupperware Home Parties, Inc., "Know How"
Archival Resource Key
1954 - 1954
6
2
Tupperware Home Parties, "Public Relations News"
Archival Resource Key
1954 - 1954
6
3
Tupperware Home Parties, Homecoming Jubilee
Archival Resource Key
1954 - 1954
6
4
Tupperware Home Parties, Earl S. Tupper resignation
Archival Resource Key
1958 - 1958
6
5
Tupperware Home Parties, correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1959 - 1959
6
6
House Beautiful "Plastics" issue
Archival Resource Key
1947 - 1947
6
7
Modern Plastics
Archival Resource Key
1948-01
5
8
Modern Plastics
Archival Resource Key
1948-02
5
9
Modern Plastics
Archival Resource Key
1948 September
1948 January-1948 February
6
10
Modern Plastics
Plastics Industry Publications
Archival Resource Key
1947 - 1950
6
11
DuPont Plastics Bulletin
Archival Resource Key
1948 - 1949
6
12
Business Week
Archival Resource Key
1954 - 1954
6
13
Sandwich Picks and Bar Tools samples with advertisement
Archival Resource Key
undated
6
14
Publicity
Archival Resource Key
1950 - 1950
6
15
Magazine clippings
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
7
1
Print advertisements
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s-circa 1950s
7
2
Print ads
Advertising ephemera
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
3
"TupperwareMaterial of the Future," advertisement
Archival Resource Key
29
6
DuPont exhibit
Archival Resource Key
1952 - 1952
7
4
Press clippings scrapbook
Archival Resource Key
1947 - 1947
8
1
Sentinel magazine, Jubilee Special Issue
Archival Resource Key
1957 - 1958
8
2
"Welcome Tupperware Distributors, Florida Magazine, Orlando Sentinel
Archival Resource Key
1964-01-05
29
6
Tupperware Jubilee Journal
Archival Resource Key
1954 - 1954
8
3
Tupperware Sales Sentinel
Archival Resource Key
1956 - 1958
8
4
Tupperware Sales
Sentinel
Tupperware Sales Sentinel
Archival Resource Key
1964 - 1965
8
5
Tupperware Sparks
Archival Resource Key
1951 - 1955
8
6
Tupperware Topics
Archival Resource Key
1956 - 1958
8
7
Print ads
Archival Resource Key
1946 - 1958
9
1-4
Print ads
Advertising scrapbook
Archival Resource Key
1946 - 1946
9
5
Advertising scrapbook
Archival Resource Key
1946 - 1947
9
6
Promotional scrapbook, part 1
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s
9
7
Promotional scrapbook, part 1
Promotional scrapbook, part 2
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s
9
8
Promotional scrapbook, part 2
Tupper family greenhouses
Archival Resource Key
1930
undated
10
1
Blackstone, Massachusetts manufacturing facility, exterior and interior views (photographs)
Archival Resource Key
1908
undated
1954 - 1954
10
2
Blackstone Mill, North Smithfield, Rhode Island
Archival Resource Key
1903-1904
29
2
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of the mill and specifications for the erection of a new mill (1903) and one horizontal cross compound condensed engine (1904).
Farnumsville, Massachusetts manufacturing facility, exterior views (photographs)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1944 - 1944
10
3
Farnumsville, Massachusetts manufacturing facility, interior views
Archival Resource Key
1944 - 1944
circa 1950s
undated
10
4
Farnumsville, Massachusetts manufacturing facility, interior views
Cuero, Texas manufacturing facility, exterior views
Archival Resource Key
1949 - 1949
1943 - 1943
10
5
Orlando, Florida, headquarters, exterior views
Archival Resource Key
undated
1954 - 1954
10
6
Tupperware events, Jubilees (photographs)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1956 - 1956
10
7
Tupperware events, Jubilees
Tupperware people (photographs)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1943 - 1943
1956 - 1956
10
8
Tupperware people
Tupperware products (photographs)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1947 - 1947
10
9
Tupperware products
Signing the Dart sale
Archival Resource Key
1958 - 1958
10
10
Hospital bed designs (photographs)
Archival Resource Key
1 Album
1978 - 1978
10
11
Stove designs
Archival Resource Key
1982 - 1982
10
12
Earl S. Tupper and H. Holz, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
1983 - 1983
10
13
Negatives
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
14
Design drawing, by Earl S. Tupper, notarized, possibly an automobile convertible top
Archival Resource Key
4 Drawings (visual works)
1932 June 15
1
Design drawing, signed Marcus Coolidge
Archival Resource Key
1 Drawings (visual works)
undated
1
Measured drawings, Memory Hill Farm, Earl S. Tupper, designer
Archival Resource Key
2 Drawings (visual works)
1962 November
1
Tupperware Home Parties, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1953
29
4
Rexall Drug and Chemical Company, Board Meeting at Tupperware Home Parties, Inc., Headquarters
Archival Resource Key
1960-01-25
29
5
Recognition of Public Service, united States Department of State, Tupper Corporation
Archival Resource Key
1958
29
6
International Oceanographic Foundation, Earl S. Tupper, Sponsor
Archival Resource Key
1958
29
6
Neil Osterweil Oral Histories and Research Files
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
1926-1989
bulk 1987-1989
Scope and Contents
This series consists of material assembled by Neil Osterweil, a writer/researcher commissioned by the Tupper family to write Earl Tupper's biography. Most of the materials assembled here as research files are duplicates of materials found in Series 1, 2 and 3. This series also contains the early outlines and drafts of this autobiography, which was never finished. In 1988 and 1989, Osterweil conducted oral history interviews with Tupper's daughter and four sons, along with other family members and longtime friends, and former Tupperware executives. The original tapes (Subseries 4.2) have been dubbed onto audiocassettes (Subseries 4.3) for researcher use, and master reel to reels for preservation (Subseries 4.4). There are transcripts available for some interviews.
Research Files
4.1
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1926 - 1989
Tupper family history, genealogy
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
1
Farnsworth, Shirley
Archival Resource Key
1978
11
2
Tupper, Myles
Archival Resource Key
1987 - 1988
11
3
Tupper, Earl
Archival Resource Key
1964 - 1988
11
4
Earl S. Tupper (obituaries)
Archival Resource Key
1983 - 1983
11
5
Pre-Tupperware business and inventions (photocopies)
Archival Resource Key
1926 - 1932
11
6
Tupperware marketing, primary materials
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s-circa 1980s
11
7
Tupperware marketing, secondary materials
Archival Resource Key
1947 - 1989
11
8
Tupperware product development, secondary materials
Archival Resource Key
1948 - 1988
11
9
Tupperware business records
Archival Resource Key
1949 - 1958
11
10
Wise, Brownie
Archival Resource Key
1951 - 1961
11
11
Dart/Rexall purchase
Archival Resource Key
1958 - 1958
11
12
Post Tupperware inventions
Archival Resource Key
1976-07-29
11
13
Charitable contributions and philanthropy
Archival Resource Key
1984 - 1985
11
14
Earl S. Tupper honors and awards
Archival Resource Key
1940 - 1977
11
15
Society of the Plastics Industry publications
Archival Resource Key
1988 - 1989
11
16
Biography drafts
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
1-3
Research correspondence and notes
Archival Resource Key
1972 - 1989
12
4
Research notebooks (5 volumes)
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
5-7
Original Masters
4.2
Archival Resource Key
36 Sound recordings
1987 - 1989
John Ansley (president of Tupperware manufacturing 1956-1986)
Archival Resource Key
13
John Ansley
Archival Resource Key
1989-01-29
13
Gladys Cook and E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
13
E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
13
E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
13
E. Creiger (side 2)
Archival Resource Key
13
Thomas Damigella (successful early distributor, 1948)
Archival Resource Key
1988-09-16
13
Punk Farnsworth and Everett White
Archival Resource Key
13
Sandy Farnsworth
Archival Resource Key
1988-10-13
13
Iver Freeman
Archival Resource Key
13
Jim Hagan
Archival Resource Key
13
John Keville
Archival Resource Key
1989-01-27
13
John Keville
Archival Resource Key
13
Levine
Archival Resource Key
13
Lightbown
Archival Resource Key
1987-01-24
13
Lightbown
Archival Resource Key
1989-01-24
13
R. Parenter and G. Flagg
Archival Resource Key
13
[EST]
Archival Resource Key
1941
13
Glenn and Myles Tupper
Archival Resource Key
1989 February 08
13
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #1
Archival Resource Key
13
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #2
Archival Resource Key
13
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #3
Archival Resource Key
13
Myles Tupper
Archival Resource Key
13
Glenn Tupper
Archival Resource Key
13
Mark Tupper
Archival Resource Key
1989-02-07
13
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper
Archival Resource Key
13
Ronald Tupper
Archival Resource Key
13
Ronald Tupper, #1
Archival Resource Key
13
Ronald Tupper, #2
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13
Ronald Tupper, #3
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13
Ronald Tupper, #4
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13
Ronald Tupper, #5
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13
Ronald Tupper, #6
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13
Ronald Tupper, #7
Archival Resource Key
14
Starr Tupper
Archival Resource Key
14
Starr Tupper
Archival Resource Key
14
Researcher Copies (with time track)
4.3
Archival Resource Key
36 Sound recordings
1987 - 1989
Scope and Contents
With time code.
John Ansley (presdient, Tupperware manufacturing, 1956-1986)
Archival Resource Key
14
John Ansley
Archival Resource Key
1989-01-28
14
Gladys Cook and E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
14
E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
14
E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
14
E. Creiger (side 2)
Archival Resource Key
14
Thomas Damigella (early distributor)
Archival Resource Key
1988-09-16
14
Punk Farnsworth and Everett White
Archival Resource Key
14
Sandy Farnsworth
Archival Resource Key
1988-10-13
14
Iver Freeman
Archival Resource Key
14
Jim Hagan
Archival Resource Key
14
John Keville
Archival Resource Key
1989-01-27
14
John Keville
Archival Resource Key
14
15
Levine
Archival Resource Key
15
Lightbown
Archival Resource Key
1987-01-24
15
Lightbown
Archival Resource Key
1989-01-24
15
R. Parenter and G. Flagg
Archival Resource Key
15
R. Parenter and G. Flagg, #1
Archival Resource Key
15
R. Parenter and G. Flagg, #2
Archival Resource Key
15
R. Parenter and G. Flagg, #3
Archival Resource Key
15
R. Parenter and G. Flagg, #4
Archival Resource Key
15
EST
Archival Resource Key
1941
15
#5
Archival Resource Key
15
#6 (Tupper family singing and playing musical instruments)
Archival Resource Key
15
#7 (Tupper family singing and playing musical instruments)
Archival Resource Key
15
Ronald Tupper
Archival Resource Key
15
Starr Tupper
Archival Resource Key
16
Starr Tupper
Archival Resource Key
16
Glenn and Myles Tupper
Archival Resource Key
1989-02-08
16
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #1
Archival Resource Key
16
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #2
Archival Resource Key
16
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #3
Archival Resource Key
16
Myles Tupper
Archival Resource Key
16
Glenn Tupper
Archival Resource Key
16
Mark Tupper
Archival Resource Key
1989-02-07
16
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper
Archival Resource Key
16
Researcher Copies
4.4
Archival Resource Key
36 Sound recordings
1987 - 1989
Scope and Contents
No time code.
John Ansley
Archival Resource Key
16
John Ansley
Archival Resource Key
1989-01-28
16
Gladys Cook and E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
16
E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
16
E. Creiger
Archival Resource Key
16
E. Creiger (side 2)
Archival Resource Key
16
Thomas Damigella
Archival Resource Key
1988-09-16
17
Punk Farnsworth and Everett White
Archival Resource Key
17
Sandy Farnsworth
Archival Resource Key
1988-10-13
17
Iver Freeman
Archival Resource Key
17
Jim Hagan
Archival Resource Key
17
John Keville
Archival Resource Key
1989-01-27
17
John Keville
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17
Levine
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17
Lightbown
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1987-01-24
17
Lightbown
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1989-01-24
17
R. Parenter and G. Flagg
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17
R. Parenter and G. Flagg, #1
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17
R. Parenter and G. Flagg,#2
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17
R. Parenter and G. Flagg, #3
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17
R. Parenter and G. Flagg, #4
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17
1941 (established)
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17
#5
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18
#6 (Tupper family singing and playing musical instruments)
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18
#7 (Tupper family singing and playing musical instruments
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18
Ronald Tupper
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18
Starr Tupper
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18
StarrTupper
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18
Glenn and Myles Tupper
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1989-02-08
18
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #1
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18
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #2
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18
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper, #3
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18
19
Myles Tupper
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19
5
Glenn Tupper
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19
6
Mark Tupper
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1989 February 07
19
7
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper
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19
8
Preservation Copies
4.5
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undated
Ansley to Creiger
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20
Damigella to Keville
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21
Keville to Parenter
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22
Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper
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23
Mark Tupper and Starr Tupper
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24
Neil Osterweil, 1-4
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25
Neil Osterweil, 5-7 (established 1941)
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26
Center for Advertising History, Oral History Interviews
Series 5
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2003 - 2003
1992 - 1992
Scope and Contents
This series consists of interviews conducted in 1992 by John Fleckner with two Tupper sons, Glenn and Myles. The original tapes (Subseries 5.1) have been dubbed onto audiocassettes (Subseries 5.2) for researcher use, and master reel to reels for preservation (Subseries 5.3). There are also abstracts for each interview (Subseries 5.4) .
Original Masters
5.1
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1992 - 1992
Glenn Tupper
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1992 January 22-1992 January 23
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1
Glenn Tupper
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1992 October 23
19
2
Myles Tupper
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1992 October 23
19
3
Myles Tupper
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1992-10-24
19
4
Researcher Copies
5.2
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1992 - 1992
Glenn Tupper
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1992-01-22-1992-01-23
19
1
Glenn Tupper
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1992-10-23
19
2
Myles Tupper
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1992-10-23
19
3
Myles Tupper
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1992-10-24
19
4
Preservation Copies
5.3
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1992 - 1992
Glenn Tupper
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1992 January 22-1992 January 23
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1
Glenn Tupper
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1992 October 23
27
2
Myles Tupper
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1992 October 23
27
3
Myles Tupper
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1992 October 24
27
4
Abstracts and Transcripts
5.4
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2003
1992
Damigella, Thomas (includes letter from Neil Osterweil)
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1988-09-16
2003 December 22
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1
Tupper, Glenn
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1992-01-23
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2
Fleckner, John
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1992-10-23
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2
Tupper, Glenn (Neil Osterweil)
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28
3
Tupper, Mark (Neil Osterweil)
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28
4
Tupper, Myles
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1992-10-23
28
5
Tupper, Ronald (Neil Osterweil)
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28
6
Tupper, Starr/E. Creiger, no. 1 (Neil Osterweil)
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28
7
Tupper, Starr/E. Creiger, no. 2 (Neil Osterweil)
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28
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