Triple-Thrift Refrigerator (General Electric) and R. Cooper Jr. Inc.

Advertisement for the Triple-Thrift Refrigerator, produced by General Electric and distributed by R. Cooper Jr. Inc., includes a color drawing of a groom carrying a bride toward the “Triple-Thrift;” black & white photographs of a man explaining the refrigerator’s cooling unit to a boy and a man placing ice from a tray into a bowl; a color image of a Triple-Thrift” filled with food; charts displaying cost and energy figures, and drawings of a refrigerator, an electric range, a clothes washer and dryer; a kitchen; a clothes washer; a pants’ presser; an upright vacuum cleaner; and a water cooler.

Publication date: 1938-06-12

Size: 50.5 x 37 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: color

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• Appliances--1930-1940
• Brides--1930-1940
• General Electric Company--Products--1930-1940
• Grooms (Weddings)--1930-1940
• R. Cooper Jr. Inc.--Products--1930-1940
• Refrigerators--1930-1940
• Stoves--1930-1940
• Washing machines--1930-1940
• Ice--1930-1940
• Laundry--1930-1940
• Trays--1930-1940
• Charts--1930-1940
• Kitchens--1930-1940
• Vacuum cleaners--1930-1940
• Water coolers--1930-1940

Genre(s):

• Advertisements

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (June 12, 1938), p. 10

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg