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For more information about the Asbestos Archive or use of any newspaper images on the site, contact Stephen Carr
Research Specialist
scarr@newspaperarchive.com
319.390.9442 x40
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For Immediate Release
March 10, 2006
AsbestosArchive.com shows Americans' craze
for Asbestos products before risks were known
Historic newspaper articles detail the use of asbestos in
shingles, automobile breaks, toasters, even pink aprons
Before the risks were known, it's estimated that asbestos was used in 3,000 consumer products including toasters, clothes irons, shingles, automobile breaks, rugs, curtains and even mittens. AsbestosArchive.com, a free archive of 50,000 newspaper images from NewspaperARCHIVE.com, details the use of asbestos through historic newspaper articles.
For example, an article found on Asbestos Archive from The Monessen Daily Independent reported on September 15, 1936, "Pink asbestos aprons for careless ladies who lean on stoves sizzled into the international fashion market today from Great Britain. With them came striped asbestos table cloths for folks who don't like ash trays, and lavender asbestos mittens for pickers of hot potatoes. London manufacturers also produced red asbestos rugs which bonfires may be built, and lacy asbestos window curtains guaranteed to defy a blow torch."
The archive also contains articles on asbestos mining, asbestos related diseases and lawsuits that can be searched with the use of Optical Character Recognition technology. For instance, to find articles about the health risk from asbestos, just type in the word "health." Articles from specific years can be found by limiting dates in the advanced search.
"As you look through ads and articles in Asbestos Archive, it's hard to believe that asbestos was used in everyday household products like aprons, table cloths and toasters with the risks known today," said Jeff Kiley, Director of Sales and Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com. "Yet, the articles certainly show Americans' craze for the product and the lawsuits that followed once the dangers were confirmed."
Researchers interested in finding more information about asbestos can also go to NewspaperARCHIVE.com where there are 232,107 newspaper pages about asbestos. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest newspaper database available online, is owned by Heritage Microfilm and began in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1999. AsbestosArchive.com is part of a series of free newspaper archives that include MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com, AbrahamLincolnArchive.com, WinterGamesArchive.com and TitanicArchive.com.
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