Doughnut Machine Company,Scrapbooks
The collection is arranged into one series.
Series 1, Scrapbooks, 1927-1928
The collection contains sales and marketing plans for doughnut machines, as well as, plans for advertisements and devices to sell "Downyflake Doughnuts" to consumers. There are catalogs for bakery equipment, print advertisements and promotional items. There are also detailed plans for sales and marketing include scripted dialog to assist local bakeries in selling more doughnuts. Most items are black ink on white paper, but there are some in full color. There is also an interesting recipe book showing how to utilize doughnuts in several dessert variations. There are promotional items showing then current views on nutrition and gender roles.
Doughnut Machine Company Scrapbooks, ca. 1928, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
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Collection donated by Bert and Carol Vorchheimer.
The Doughnut Machine Corporation operated out of New York City in 1927 and 1928. They manufactured doughnut machines, which they sold to individual bakeries. They also provided selling strategies to the bakeries to improve doughnut sales. The brand name they were marketing was "Downyflake Doughnuts." In 1927, Frederick Philip Wertheimer, a newly minted New York University liberal arts graduate with a major in advertising, was employed by Doughnut Machine Corporation as the assistant to the advertising manager, George LeRoy. The output was a number of concurrent sales campaigns designed and implemented by Wertheimer.
Collection processed by Lynell De Wind, 2003.
Collection is open for research.