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Revlon, Incorporated Advertising Collection

Manufacturer:
Revlon, Inc.  Search this
Donor:
Stevens, Martin  Search this
Extent:
2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Tear sheets
Advertisements
Commercials
Compact discs
Date:
1936-1986
Summary:
Collection consists of print and television advertisements and promotional materials created by Revlon, Incorporated, 1936-1986.
Scope and Contents:
Collection consists of print and television advertisements and promotional materials created by Revlon, Incorporated for its products dating from 1936 to 1986. Revlon experienced substantial growth using these materials and semi-annual promotions to become one of the leading brands of the cosmetics industry. The materials provide insight into the depiction and importance of beauty throughout the decades. Additionally, the names of models and photographers are identified on the materials. The collection is arranged in two series: Series 1, Revlon Advertisements, 1936-1986; and Series 2, Other Revlon Incorporated Brand Advertisements, 1965-1986.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in two series.

Series 1, Revlon Advertisements, 1936-1986

Series 2, Other Revlon Incorporated Brand Advertisements, 1965-1986
Historical:
Revlon began as a single product company in New York in 1932. The founders of the company American businessmen Charles Haskell Revson (October 11, 1906- August 24, 1975), Joseph Haskell Revson (October 11, 1906-August 24, 1975), and chemist Charles Lachman started the business with a desire to create a mainstream market for nail enamel. With an innovative manufacturing process and the introduction of new colors every year the company was able to build a successful brand and dedicated market. Revlon introduced lipstick in 1940 and continued to expand its product line to include skincare, cosmetics, hair color, fragrances, and beauty tools.

Source: New York Times obituary for Charles Revson, August 25, 1975.
Related Materials:
Materials in the Archives Center

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (NMAH.AC.0060)

Albert W. Hampson Commercial Artwork (NMAH.AC.0561)

Cover Girl Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project (NMAH.AC.0374)

NW Ayer Advertising Agency Records (NMAH.AC.0059)
Provenance:
The collection was donated by Martin Stevens in 2007.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is 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.
Rights:
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.
Topic:
Beauty culture  Search this
Women in advertising  Search this
Cosmetics  Search this
Broadcast advertising  Search this
Television advertising  Search this
Cosmetics -- advertising  Search this
Genre/Form:
Tear sheets
Advertisements -- 20th century
Commercials
Compact discs
Citation:
Revlon, Incorporated Advertising Collection, 1936-1986, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Martin Stevens.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.0939
See more items in:
Revlon, Incorporated Advertising Collection
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep85d227987-4304-4129-a698-5b2587789c7c
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0939
Online Media:

The appearance of mimetic Heliconius butterflies to predators and conspecifics

Author:
Dell'Aglio, Denise Dalbosco  Search this
Troscianko, Jolyon  Search this
McMillan, W. O.  Search this
Stevens, Martin  Search this
Jiggins, Chris D.  Search this
Object Type:
Smithsonian staff publication
Year:
2018
Citation:
Dell'Aglio, Denise Dalbosco, Troscianko, Jolyon, McMillan, W. O., Stevens, Martin, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2018. "The appearance of mimetic Heliconius butterflies to predators and conspecifics." Evolution, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13583.
Identifier:
148577
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13583
ISSN:
0014-3820
Data source:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:slasro_148577

Avoidance of an aposematically coloured butterfly by wild birds in a tropical forest

Author:
Dell'aglio, Denise D.  Search this
Stevens, Martin  Search this
Jiggins, Chris D.  Search this
Object Type:
Smithsonian staff publication
Year:
2016
Citation:
Dell'aglio, Denise D., Stevens, Martin, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2016. "Avoidance of an aposematically coloured butterfly by wild birds in a tropical forest." Ecological Entomology, 41, (5) 627–632. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12335.
Identifier:
140117
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12335
ISSN:
0307-6946
Data source:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:slasro_140117

Disruptive ecological selection on a mating cue

Author:
Merrill, Richard M.  Search this
Wallbank, Richard W. R.  Search this
Bull, Vanessa  Search this
Salazar, Patricio C. A.  Search this
Mallet, James  Search this
Stevens, Martin  Search this
Jiggins, Chris D.  Search this
Object Type:
Smithsonian staff publication
Year:
2012
Citation:
Merrill, Richard M., Wallbank, Richard W. R., Bull, Vanessa, Salazar, Patricio C. A., Mallet, James, Stevens, Martin, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2012. "Disruptive ecological selection on a mating cue." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, (1749) 4907–4913. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1968.
Identifier:
117686
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1968
ISSN:
0962-8452
Data source:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:slasro_117686

Camouflage in decorator crabs: integrating ecological, behavioural and evolutionary approaches

Author:
Hultgren, Kristin M.  Search this
Stachowicz, John J.  Search this
Editor:
Stevens, Martin  Search this
Merilaita, Sami  Search this
Object Type:
Smithsonian staff publication
Year:
2011
Citation:
Hultgren, Kristin M. and Stachowicz, John J. 2011. "Camouflage in decorator crabs: integrating ecological, behavioural and evolutionary approaches." In Animal camouflage: mechanisms and function. Stevens, Martin and Merilaita, Sami, editors. 212–236. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Identifier:
102646
ISBN:
978-0-521-15257-0
Data source:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:slasro_102646

Francis Bacon : late paintings / [contributors, Richard Calvocoressi, Richard Francis, Martin Harrison, Mark Stevens, Colm Tóibin]

Title:
Francis Bacon : late paintings, Gagosian, New York
Interviewee:
Bacon, Francis 1909-1992  Search this
Harrison, Martin 1945-  Search this
Writer of preface:
Castellani, Valentina  Search this
Ratibor, Stefan  Search this
Interviewer:
Calvocoressi, Richard  Search this
Francis, Richard 1947-  Search this
Contributor:
Stevens, Mark 1951-  Search this
Tóibín, Colm 1955-  Search this
Host institution:
Gagosian Gallery  Search this
Distributor:
Rizzoli International Publications  Search this
Subject:
Bacon, Francis 1909-1992  Search this
Bacon, Francis 1909-1992  Search this
Physical description:
207 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 32 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Interviews
Date:
2015
20th century
Topic:
Painting, English  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1060109

Abbott Handerson Thayer : a beautiful law of nature / [edited by] Ari Post

Title:
Beautiful law of nature
Author:
Post, Ari  Search this
Behrens, Roy R. 1946-  Search this
Kloss, William  Search this
Stevens, Martin 1982-  Search this
Adair, William  Search this
Plunket, John  Search this
Subject:
Thayer, Abbott Handerson 1849-1921  Search this
Physical description:
69 pages : illustrations (some colored), portraits ; 26 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
2014
C2014
Topic:
Camouflage (Military science)  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1050398

Opium / Museum der Kulturen Basel (Hg.) ; Redaktion, Anna Schmid, Doris Buddenberg

Editor:
Schmid, Anna  Search this
Buddenberg, Doris  Search this
Host institution:
Museum der Kulturen Basel  Search this
Subject:
Museum der Kulturen Basel  Search this
Physical description:
200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2015
Topic:
Opium abuse  Search this
Opium trade  Search this
Opium  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1051492

A free kind of space : in conversation with Martin Steven / editor, Graham Falken

Author:
Stevens, Martin  Search this
Falken, Graham  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Stevens, Martin  Search this
Community Art Project (Cape Town, South Africa)  Search this
Type:
Articles
Interviews
Place:
South Africa
Cape Town
Date:
2004
Topic:
Art centers  Search this
Call number:
NX180.A77 I53 2004
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1048024

Martin J. Weber Graphic Arts Collection

Donor:
Weber, Carl  Search this
Creator:
Weber, Martin J., 1905-2007  Search this
Extent:
0.75 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Advertisements
Annual reports
Patents
Correspondence
Design drawings
Business records
Contracts
Magazines (periodicals)
Date:
1931-1980
Summary:
This collection features business documents, legal papers, and examples of prints from Martin J. Weber, who pioneered the "Weber Process."
Scope and Contents:
This collection documents the Weber Process for printing that made images on paper appear more three dimensional, as well as the photomechanical apparatus Weber developed to implement it . The collection contains patent documents, contracts and business papers, correspondence, design drawings, advertisements for the Weber Process and for his studio, and a paper he delivered to the American Photo Engravers Association. It also contains numerous samples of Weber's work, including magazines covers and advertisements, annual reports from companies featuring images enhanced by Weber, brochures, and other printed material.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into nine series.

Series 1: Articles, 1931-1971

Series 2: Awards, 1931-1971

Series 3: Business Documents, 1931-1971

Series 4: Correspondence, 1931-1971

Series 5: Legal Documents, 1931-1971

Series 6: Prints, 1931-1980

Series 7: Weber Process Documents, 1931-1971

Series 8: Photographs, 1931-1971

Series 9: Large Prints, 1931-1971
Biographical / Historical:
Martin J. Weber was born in 1905 and worked as a graphic artist, inventor and typographer in the commercial art industry into his eighties. He died in 2007 at the age of 102.

Weber invented and patented the Weber Process in 1942, which utilized a photomechanical apparatus that altered images and text photographically to give pattern, texture, and shadow. Also known as Posterization, the process gave two-dimensional surfaces the "illusion of being reproduced in three dimensions" by printing multiple layers offset from one another. Weber helped to define the look of mid-twentieth century American advertising art, offering a "low-cost way of simulating multiple color reproduction." The process revolutionized lithography, screen printing, and standard printing, and later influenced computer typography.

Sources

Heller, Steven. "Martin Weber in the Third Dimension." Design Observer. June 19, 2007. Accessed August 03, 2016. http://designobserver.com/article.php?id=5657.
Provenance:
Donated to the Archives Center by Martin J. Weber's son, Carl Weber, 2011.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
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.
Topic:
Printing  Search this
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Inventors  Search this
Graphic arts  Search this
Graphic artists  Search this
Genre/Form:
Advertisements -- 20th century
Annual reports -- 20th century
Patents
Correspondence -- 20th century
Design drawings
Business records
Contracts
Magazines (periodicals) -- 20th century
Citation:
Martin J. Weber Graphic Arts Collection, 1931-1971, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.1209
See more items in:
Martin J. Weber Graphic Arts Collection
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8ba2e2f04-0912-4cd8-a2e4-a487ed7d5aff
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1209

The art of opium antiques / Steven Martin; photographs by Paul Lakatos

Author:
Martin, Steven 1962-  Search this
Lakatos, Paul  Search this
Physical description:
125 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
China
Date:
2007
C2007
Topic:
Opium trade in art  Search this
Opium pipes  Search this
Drug paraphernalia  Search this
Opium trade--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_837131

The Museum's Role in Homeland Security, An Update

Author:
Martin, George  Search this
Layne, Steven  Search this
Type:
Citations
Date:
May 2, 2005
Topic:
Museum techniques  Search this
Security  Search this
Disaster preparedness  Search this
Publisher:
Denver, CO National Audio Video, Inc
Data Source:
Museum Studies Bibliography
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_bib_18323

Abbott Handerson Thayer : a beautiful law of nature / edited by Ari Post

Title:
A beautiful law of nature
Author:
Thayer, Abbott Handerson 1849-1921  Search this
Post, Ari  Search this
Behrens, Roy R. 1946-  Search this
Kloss, William  Search this
Stevens, Martin 1982-  Search this
Subject:
Thayer, Abbott Handerson 1849-1921  Search this
Physical description:
56 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
2013
C2013
Topic:
Animals--Color  Search this
Camouflage (Military science)  Search this
Call number:
QL767 .T63 2013
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1022734

the Museum's Role in Homeland Security

Author:
Layne, Steven  Search this
Martin, George  Search this
Type:
Citations
Date:
May 8, 2004
Topic:
Museum techniques  Search this
Security  Search this
Disaster preparedness  Search this
Publisher:
Denver, CO National Audio Video, Inc
Data Source:
Museum Studies Bibliography
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_bib_18127

Get Out and Stay Out! Can We Say That?

Author:
Layne, Steven  Search this
Martin, George  Search this
Type:
Citations
Date:
May 14, 2002
Topic:
Museum techniques  Search this
Security  Search this
public relations  Search this
professional behavior  Search this
Publisher:
Elkridge, MD Chesapeake Audio/Visual Communications, Inc
Data Source:
Museum Studies Bibliography
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_bib_16355

Preparing Museum Security Officers for the Future

Author:
Layne, Steven  Search this
Martin, George  Search this
Southers, Erroll  Search this
Type:
Citations
Date:
May 18, 2003
Topic:
Museum techniques  Search this
Museums--employees  Search this
Security  Search this
Training  Search this
Publisher:
Elkridge, MD Chesapeake Audio/Visual Communications, Inc
Data Source:
Museum Studies Bibliography
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_bib_16688

Museum Protection 101

Author:
Martin, George  Search this
Davis, James  Search this
Layne, Steven  Search this
Type:
Citations
Date:
May 6, 2004
Topic:
Museum techniques  Search this
Training  Search this
Security  Search this
Publisher:
Denver, CO National Audio Visual, Inc
Data Source:
Museum Studies Bibliography
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_bib_17183

The Toymaker

Author:
Stevens, Martin 1927-  Search this
Physical description:
15 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1900
1972
[19--]
Topic:
Puppets  Search this
Puppet theater  Search this
Puppet plays  Search this
Interpersonal relations--Drama  Search this
Call number:
PN1980 .T75
PN1980.T75
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_178019

Intérieurs français / présentés par Jean Badovici, architecte

Author:
Badovici, Jean  Search this
Ill:
Dufy, Raoul 1877-1953  Search this
Physical description:
17, [3] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
France
Date:
1925
C1925
Topic:
Interior decoration  Search this
Decoration and ornament  Search this
Call number:
NK2049.A1 B33 1925
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_182764

Art deco complete : the definitive guide to the decorative arts of the 1920s and 1930s / Alastair Duncan

Author:
Duncan, Alastair 1942-  Search this
Physical description:
544 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2009
20th century
Topic:
Decoration and ornament--Art deco  Search this
Decorative arts--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_957654

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