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Period Pieces: An Exhibition of Packaging, October 20-November 30, 1951

 Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

An exhibition of food packages through history, asserting that “bottles, boxes, and paper wrapping of groceries, drugs, tobacco, and other household products are a form of folk art.”
The exhibition records span one folder of registration receipts. Installation photograph prints are in the photograph collection.

Dates

  • Creation: October 20-November 30, 1951

Conditions Governing Access

At this time, the exhibition records are unavailable to the public and will only be made available to FAMSF staff upon request.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (The exhibition records span one folder of registration receipts plus photographs.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

An exhibition of food packages through history. The exhibition records span one folder of registration receipts plus photographs.

Arrangement

The materials are separated by content and type and organized chronologically.

Related Exhibitions

de Young: Foreign Commercial Photographs (1932)
Legion of Honor: Tobacconists' Figures and Shop Signs (1943)
Legion of Honor: Plastics in Modern Decoration (1944)
Legion of Honor: Modern Advertising Art (1945)
Legion of Honor: ""I Remember That"": Watercolor-Drawings from the Index of American Design (1946)
de Young: The 24th Annual Exhibition of Advertising Art (1946)
de Young: ""I Remember That"" Assembled by the Index of American Design (1947)
de Young: Paintings, Drawings, Advertising Art, Sculpture, and Crafts by Faculty, Alumni, and Advanced Students of the California College of Arts and Crafts (1951)
Legion of Honor: Objects of Utility: Everyday Articles from 1951 B.C. to 1951 A.D. (1951)
Legion of Honor: Treen (1953)
de Young: California College of Arts and Crafts 50th Anniversary Exhibition (1957)
de Young: Ninth Annual Art Directors Exhibition of Advertising Art (1957)
de Young: Art Directors and Artists of San Francisco: Eleventh Exhibition of Advertising Art (1960)
de Young: Food Molds for King and Peasant (1967)
Legion of Honor: Tsutsumu: The Art of the Japanese Package (1976)

Separated Materials

Installation photograph prints are housed in the Legion of Honor Exhibition Photograph collection in box 10. Clipping San Francisco Chronicle November 4, 1951 p. 126.

Subjects

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Archives Repository

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