About this Vintage Print Ad
This advertisement promotes Kimble Glass Block, which is designed to control and direct sunlight in buildings. The ad highlights the product's ability to reduce glare, prevent eyestrain, and improve lighting by bending sunbeams upward to the ceiling for softer, indirect illumination. It emphasizes the benefits for schools, factories, and institutional settings, and offers free daylighting analysis for new or remodeled buildings.
- Brand: Kimble Glass Company
- Product: Kimble Glass Block
- Tagline: Ever try to bend a sunbeam—Kimble can
- Publication: Fortune
- Year: 1953
Objects in the advertisement: hand, glass block, arrows (representing sunbeams)
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