Greetings,
 
My institution is developing plans to install an exhibit on Duncan
Hines of cake box fame.  Hines, a Bowling Green, Kentucky, native, was
a nationally known figure from the late 1930s through the 1960s.
First through his guidebooks recommending restaurants and motels, and
later through more than 300 products that bore his name and/or image.
The Kentucky Museum collection includes approximately 25 different
product packages (mostly cake and food mix preparations), and I know
of a collection of broadsides advertising some of the other foods sold
under his name (ice cream, cottage cheese, etc.), but hopefully there
is a lot more artifact material out there in other museum collections.
 
Artifacts of particular interest include:
signs (Recommended by Duncan Hines)
utensils, dishes, pans, cutlery, appliances
cardboard promotional displays
 
Feel free to post any responses to this list or to the e-mail address
below.
 
Thanks for your assistance,
 
Sandy Staebell
The Kentucky Museum
Western Kentucky University
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