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| Title | Acrylite Sample |
| Object Name | Acrylite Sample |
| Manufactured By | Wasco Products, Inc."(Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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| Description | "Acrylite" samples of different sizes, colors and patterns, marketed by Wasco Products, Co. Wasco was founded in 1935 as the Flashing Company in Cambridge, MA to manufacture a revolutionary through-wall flashing system, but by 1949 had introduced an acrylic dome skylight and from then on specilized in skylight design and construction. Wasco was purchased by American Cyanamid in 1966. Flashing and skylight operations were spun on in 1969 and renamed Wasco Products, Inc. As the use of these samples of American Cyanamid Acrylite demonstrates, the two companies remained associated. In the 1970s the company developed vinyl framing for its glass skylights. The company continues today as the Wasco Skylight Company, still with a wide range of plastic skylight options. See: http://www.wascoskylights.com/ |
| Date Manufactured | after 1969 |
| Material | Polymethyl methacrylate - Acrylic (PMMA) |
| Material Trade Name | Akrylite |
| Number of Objects | 26 |
| Accession Number | 2003.1257 |
| Donor | Gift of National Plastics Center. Gift of Armand G. Winfield, International Plastics Consultant, in memory of Barbara LaBarge Winfield |
| Broad Subject | Material Samples
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| Subjects | Samples
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| For More Information | Please address inquires to the Public Services Librarian, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library (e-mail: scrc@syr.edu, tel. 315-443-2697). |
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