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| Text on Button | CANVAS PRODUCTS 3328 ST. CLAIR AVE. CLEVELAND 14, OHIO UT 1-2244 Service- Repairs New Tarpaulins |
| Image Description | White text on a green background with a clip attached |
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| Additional Information | Before the ubiquitous plastic blue tarp, canvas was the preferred material for making tarps. The full word, tarpaulin, is a compound word from “tar” and “palling” which refers to sailors covering objects on ships with tar-coated canvas palls. Canvas Products Co. is not well documented, although they are in the 1955 Cleveland City Directory. At best estimate, this clip dates between 1949 and 1963. |
| Sources |
Cleveland Ohio City Directory. (1955). Retrieved from https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16014coll29/id/57… Tarpaulin. En.wikipedia.org. (2020). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpaulin. Private correspondence with Bob Prochko, Cleveland historian |
| Catalog ID | IN0099 |