Object Details
- Collection Donor
- Wise, Brownie Humphrey, 1913-1991
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- Brownie Wise Papers
- Date
- circa 1947-1959, undated
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0509, Series 2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Brownie Wise Papers, 1938-1968, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- 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.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513412780-1503513412792-8
