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Announcement, The DuPont Show of the Week on NBC

This is a Announcement. It was produced by DuPont Co..

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Archives of American Art, New York, N.Y. as part of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

It is dated 1963. Its medium is offset lithograph on coated paper. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


The DuPont-sponsored Show of the Week for September 8, 1963 was "To Bury Caesar," but this announcement focuses on a commercial to be broadcast during the film. Featuring "award winning fabric designer Dorothy Liebes," the ad for DuPont Antron nylon was filmed in the Dorothy Liebes studio.

It is credited Dorothy Liebes Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Its dimensions are

H x W (closed): 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 in.) H x W (open): 25.1 × 67.3 cm (9 7/8 × 26 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

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