AR:B4d1.4, P&E 87. "The Parabiographies": Design for the Perfection Churn Company, stationery, for Carl K. Bennett [Owatonna, Minnesota] (1910)

Text by William Gray Purcell

Parabiographies entry, Volume for 1910

Project Date (in Parabiographies): May 7, 1910

PERFECTION CHURN COMPANY, Owatonna, C.K.B. [Bennett]

A job of designing some letter paper, carried out by W. G. P. To my mind, churns spoke of spring and buttercups on the meadows, so I did it in green and yellow on pale blue paper. The design [on the 1939 draft WGP had written: "was a bit childish, but it"] seemed to satisfy. At least it had novelty and advertising value in a day when business stationery was very literal indeed.