Tupperware Home Parties
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Wise, Brownie Humphrey, 1913-1991
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content: Brownie Wise Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1951-1959, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0509, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes files of Wise's business correspondence, notes and memoranda, and speeches. There is some business correspondence with Earl Tupper, who remained at the firm's manufacturing plants in the Northeast. Also included are publicity reprints and newsclippings, as well as public relations scrapbooks from 1951 to 1958.  There are nearly complete runs of Tupperware Sparks and the Tupperware Sentinel, company publications prepared for the sales force, as well as catalogs, recruitment publications and other company literature.  The series is divided into six subseries as follows: 

Subseries 3.1: Business Files and Correspondence, 1951-1959; 1988-1989

Subseries 3.2 Speeches to Tupperware Sales Force, 1951-1957

Subseries 3.3: Speeches to outside groups and Sales Organizations, 1952-1957

Subseries 3.4: Tupperware publications, 1949-1966 (not inclusive)

Subseries 3.5: Brownie Wise "Idea" files, undated

Subseries 3.6: Publicity, 1951-1957