Presto Whip Building, Dearborn, Michigan, 1976

Summary

Roadside photographer John Margolies documented the Presto Whip silos in front of the Delsoy Products (Whitehouse Products Incorporated) factory in Dearborn, Michigan. The silos held soybean oil and sugar -- ingredients in Presto Whip, a soy-based, non-dairy whipped topping. The company fashioned these eye-catching advertisements around ordinary storage tanks. The silos came down in the 1980s, but residents fondly remember the recognizable landmarks.

Roadside photographer John Margolies documented the Presto Whip silos in front of the Delsoy Products (Whitehouse Products Incorporated) factory in Dearborn, Michigan. The silos held soybean oil and sugar -- ingredients in Presto Whip, a soy-based, non-dairy whipped topping. The company fashioned these eye-catching advertisements around ordinary storage tanks. The silos came down in the 1980s, but residents fondly remember the recognizable landmarks.

Artifact

Slide (Photograph)

Subject Date

1976

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2013.150.1339

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Technique

Chromogenic processes

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 2 in

Width: 2 in

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