Stanley Home Products, Patio Parties, Poly-T Parties, Hibiscus Sales, Gardenia Sales
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Wise, Brownie Humphrey, 1913-1991
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content: Brownie Wise Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1947-1959, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0509, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Series 2: Stanley Home Products, Patio Parties, Poly-T Parties, Hibiscus Sales and Gardenia Sales, circa 1947-1959.  This series includes records of Wise's innovative direct sales businesses for the period before she was recruited by Tupperware.  Files include order forms, correspondence with sales agents, and instructions on sales methods.  There are sales records, invoices, shipping documents, accounting records and sales force newsletters from the Miami Tupperware dealership known as Hibiscus Sales, which Wise opened in 1949 with her mother.  Until her death in 1959, Brownie's mother Rose Humphrey, continued to operate the Miami dealership as well as Gardenia Sales, which supplied Tupperware to Puerto Rico.  There are accounting records and dealer correspondence documenting this enterprise.