Staying warm today might be off the table, but maybe you can at least stay safe this winter. This December 1978 photograph from Hagley Library's Charles H. DeMirjian collection of DuPont Consumer Products Division photographs and ephemera (Accession 1995.273) features a store display window showcasing DuPont's line of winter care car products.

The collection was assembled by Charles H. DeMirjian (1925-) during his years as a packaging design manager with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. He was primarily a manager of designers, and supervised an integrated approach that combined marketing research, advertising and package design.

DeMirjian collected pictures, advertisements, and publications showing DuPont consumer products, as well as some of the products and packages themselves, usually for presentation to dealers and retailers to demonstrate how packaging and merchandise display techniques could efficiently promote the products.

Brrrrr!!!! The staff of Hagley Library are returning from our long holiday weekend to find that December is greeting us with a chilly Monday. This weather calls for a warm coat, perhaps even a ski parka by Ernst Engel in RSL Everglaze sasheen cotton like the one being modeled by Miss America pageant winner Nancy Anne Fleming in this 1961 photograph.

This photograph is part of our Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. Miss America photographs (Accession 1972.430) collection. The company, incorporated in 1889, manufactured, bleached, dyed, and finished a variety cotton-made goods. After World War I, it added synthetics to its production, and these included rayon and nylon fabrics.

In 1929, the Bancroft Company merged with the Eddystone Manufacturing Company and soon after, it began producing a line of rayon goods and a cotton finishing process that were marketed under the trade names of "Ban-Lon" and "Everglaze" respectively.