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Bill Blass Interprets the Cover Girl Look color advertisement, tear sheet

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Local Numbers
AC0374-0000290.tif (AC Scan: detail, model) AC0374-0000290a.tif (AC Scan: detail, Bill Blass) AC0374-0000290m.tif (AC Scan: full advertisement)
General
In Box 25, Folder 4.
Photographer
Avedon, Richard
Names
Blass, Bill
Eckhart, Maggie
Collection Creator
Bunting, George L., Jr.
Brinkley, Christie
Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Colonel, Sheri
Giordano, Lynn
Ford, Eileen
Hall, L. C. "Bates"
Grathwohl, Geraldine
Huebner, Dick
Harrison, Fran
Lindsay, Robert
Hunt, William D.
McIver, Karen
MacDougall, Malcolm
Noble, Stan
Nash, Helen
Noxell Corporation.
Bergin, John
O'Neill, Jennifer
Oelbaum, Carol
Pelligrino, Nick
Poris, George
Roberts, F. Stone
Tiegs, Cheryl
Troup, Peter
Weithas, Art
Witt, Norbert
Topic
Hats
Fashion photography -- 1960-1970
advertising -- Cosmetics
Photographer
Avedon, Richard
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Cover Girl Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project
Cover Girl Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project / Series 5: Print Advertisements / 5.2: Printed Advertisements and Proof sheets / 1963
Sponsor
The project was supported in part by a gift from the Noxell Corporation.
Extent
1 Item
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Ink on paper, 12" x 33".
Date
1964
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Tear sheets
Advertisements
Collection Citation
Cover Girl Advertising Oral History & Documentation Project, 1959-1990, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection Rights
Copyright and trademark restrictions.
Genre/Form
Photographs -- 1960-1970 -- Color -- Reproductions
Tear sheets -- 1960-1970
Advertisements
Scope and Contents
Color advertisement (reproduction of photograph) of model Maggie Eckhart wearing fantastic fuschia hat; image of Bill Blass sitting in director's chair beside model.
Restrictions
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1562709012351-1562709012728-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8d6bb67a9-e383-4174-930a-2a7583515a2c

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