GraftonTupperWare

 

Tupperware Factory in Farnumsville
(South Grafton)  MA

Plastic kitchen & dinnerware for the home in 1950s.
Note, the is an archive in Washington DC for Manufacturing Company old archives that has a bit on Tupper.



Link to review of  book on Tupperware phenomena

Worcester Newspaper Articles on Tupperware Company in 1990s

This page last edited 3-12-2003

Post Card of Factory 
 

Tupperware Factory Interior
Photo from National Archives Collection

Tupperware Plastic Items
 

Summary of Tupperware Archives at National Archives in Washington DC

                            EARL S. TUPPER PAPERS, ca. 1914-1982,
                            #470
                            Series 3: Tupper Corporation/Tupperware Business
                            Records
                            Box 5
                                 Folder 1, Tupperware Business Records,
                                 1940s-50s; 2, Tupperware/Navy Contract,
                                 1948-49; 3, Tupperware Business Records, 1950s;
                                 4, Tupperware Business Records, 1950s; 5,
                                 Tupperware Business Records, 1950s;
                            Box 6
                                 Folder 1, Price Lists, 1948; 2, Tupperware catalogs,
                                 1949, 1957, 1958, n.d.; 3, Tupperware publications,
                                 1951-59; 4, Tupperware publications, 1951-1954;
                                 5, House Beautiful "Plastics" issue, 1947; 6,
                                 Modern Plastics, January 1948; 7, Modern
                                 Plastics, February 1948; 8, Modern Plastics,
                                 September 1948; 9, DuPont Plastics Bulletin, 1948,
                                 1949; 10, Plastics Industry Publications, 1947-1950;
                                 11, Sandwich Picks and Bar Tools samples with
                                 advertisement
                            Box 7
                                 Folder 1, Publicity, 1950; 2, magazine clippings,
                                 1950s; 3, print ads, 1940s-1950s  4, advertising
                                 ephemera; 5, DuPont exhibit, 1952
                             Box 8
                                 Folder 1, press clippings scrapbook, 1947; 2,
                                 Sentinel magazine, Jubilee Special Issue, 1957,
                                 1958; 3, Tupperware Jubilee Journal, 1954; 4,
                                 Tupperware Sales Sentinel, 1956-58; 5,
                                 Tupperware Sales Sentinel, 1964-65; 6,
                                 Tupperware Sparks, 1951-1955; 7, Tupperware
                                 Topics, 1956-1958
                            Box 9
                                 Folder 1-4, print ads, 1940s-1950s; 5, advertising
                                 scrapbook, 1946; 6, advertising scrapbook,
                                 1946-47; 7, promotional scrapbook, 1940s, part 1;
                                 8, promotional scrapbook, 1940s, part 2
                            Box 10
                                 Folder 1, Tupper family greenhouses; 2, Blackstone,
                                 Mass. mfg. facility, exterior and interior views; 3,
                                 Farnumsville, Mass. mfg. facility, exterior views; 4,
                               Franumsville, Mass. mfg. facility, interior views ; 5, Cuero,
                                 Texas mfg. facility, exterior views; 6, Orlando, Fla.
                                 headquarters - exterior views; 7, Tupperware events,
                                 esp. Jubilees; 8, Tupperware people; 9, Tupperware
                                 products; 10, signing the Dart sale, 1958; 11,
                                 Hospital bed designs, 1978; 12, Stove designs,
                                 1982; 13, EST and H. Holz, Fitchburg, Mass., 1983;
                                 14, negatives; also, oversize folder in map case
                                 drawer #5 in central research room



EARL S. TUPPER PAPERS, ca. 1914-1982,
                            #470
                            Series 4: Osterweil Oral Histories and Research Files
                            Subseries: Research Files
                           Box 11
                                 Folder 1, Tupper family history, genealogy; 2,
                                 Farnsworth, Shirley; 3, Tupper, Myles; 4, Tupper,
                                 Earl; 5, EST obituaries; 6, Pre-Tupperware business
                                 and inventions; 7, Tupperware marketing -- primary
                                 materials; 8, Tupperware marketing -- secondary
                                 materials; 9, Tupperware product development --
                                 secondary materials; 10, Tupperware business
                                 records; 11, Wise, Brownie; 12, Dart/Rexall
                                 purchase, 1958; 13, Post Tuppeware inventions; 14,
                                 Charitable contributions/ philanthropy; 15, EST
                                 Honors and Awards; 16, Society of the Plastics
                                 Industry publications
                            Box 12
                                 Folder 1-2, Biography drafts; 3, Research
                                 Correspondence and notes; 4-6, Research
                                 notebooks (5 volumes)
                            Series 4: Osterweil Oral Histories
                            Subseries: Researcher Copies (set 1; with time track)
                            Box 16
                                 Tape 1, John Ansley (presdient, Tupperware mfg.,
                                 1956-1986); 2, 1/28/89, John Ansley; 3, Gladys
                                 Cook/E. Creiger; 4, Creiger; 5, Creiger; 6, Creiger
                                 side 2; 7, 9/16/88*Thomas Damigella (early
                                 distributor, 1948)
                            Box 17
                                 Tape 8, Punk Farnsworth/Everett White; 9,
                                 10/13/88 Sandy Farnsworth; 10, Iver Freeman; 11,
                                 Jim Hagan; 12, 1/27/89, John Keville; 13, John
                                 Keville; 14, 10/2/, Levine; 15, 1/24/87, Lightbown
                            Box 18
                                 Tape 16, 1/24/89, Lightbown; 17, R. Parenter/ G.
                                 Flagg; 11, #1; 12, #2; 13, #3; 14, #4; 18, est.1941
                            Box 19
                                 Tape 15, #5; 16, #6 (Tupper family singing and
                                 playing musical instruments); 17, #7 (Tupper family
                                 singing and playing musical instruments); 9, *Ronald
                                 Tupper; 18, *Starr Tupper; 19, *StarrTupper
                            Box 20
                                 Tape 1, 2/8/89, Glenn and Myles Tupper; 2, Glenn,
                                 Mark and Myles Tupper #1; 3, Glenn, Mark and
                                 Myles Tupper #2; 4, Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper
                                 #3; 5, Myles Tupper; 6, *Glenn Tupper; 7, 2/7/89,
                                 *Mark Tupper; 8, Glenn, Mark and Myles Tupper


EARL S. TUPPER PAPERS, ca. 1914-1982,
                            #470
                            Series 5: CAH Oral History Interviews
                            Subseries: Researcher Copies
                            Box 34
                                 Interview 1, 1/22-23/92, Glenn Tupper, 3 tapes; 2,
                                 10/23/92, Glenn Tupper, 1 tape; 3, 10/23/92, Myles
                                 Tupper, 1 tape; 4, 10/24/92, Myles Tupper, 3 tapes
                            Series 5: CAH Oral History Interviews
                            Subseries: Interviewee Files
                            Box 36
                                 Folder 1, Glenn Tupper; 2, Myles Tupper
 

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