Lead Industries Association, 1939

[medren.livejournal.com]

Ah, lead paint...I can't see that there will ever be a problem with that...

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[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

"If you could cover a house with lead, it would just about last forever."
I'm sure the human occupants with very young children will appreciate that.

[orangesunshine.livejournal.com]

mte.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Is ths N abbrev. 4 s'thing?

[orangesunshine.livejournal.com]

Yes. "my thoughts exactly"

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that B "mtx?"

[orangesunshine.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... not to my knowledge.
Also, I'm not sure if you're kidding or not.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

"What to expect from White Lead paint."

Um...

[albear.livejournal.com]

Mining lead???????????

The guy died 5-8 years after his picture was taken. And 65 years after we saw it on Vintage Ads.

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

I am so writing for that pamphlet today.

I am so horrified that they are not wearing masks while mining for lead.

[corridor7f.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... white lead.

[kartusch.livejournal.com]

"never goes brittle and flakes" my ass anyone old enough to live in a house with lead painted window sills knows exactly what I am talking about.

[fofalex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they last used lead paint in the 60s or 70s...try to get modern latex paint to last 30-40 years. I've got 50+ year old paint on my house, some of it is flaking and some of it isn't going anywhere.

I'm not advocating for lead paint but it was many times more durable that what you can buy now.

[willowind76.livejournal.com]

Dear god this is horrifyingly nieve...but I can't help but wonder what today's "lead/mercury/other harmful things..." is going to make our grandchildren say the say the same thing about something we considered "convenient"

Not that this wasn't known

[ijusten.livejournal.com]

Lead has been known to be poisonous for millenia. The first known recorded writing on lead-poisoning was from the first century AD Greece. Even if this was forgotten, it was again widely known during renaissance. Few hundred years later it was common enough knowledge that a pulp writer like Alexander Dumas wrote about a barkeeper who gets arrested for sweetening his wine with lead (and thus poisoning his customers). It was also known that even

Using lead in painting (or in bug sprays) wasn't about ignorance, but about indifference.

Reading Wikipedia;

Julius Caesar's engineer, Vitruvius, reported, "water is much more wholesome from earthenware pipes than from lead pipes. For it seems to be made injurious by lead, because white lead is produced by it, and this is said to be harmful to the human body."

And even if we talk about only lead paint, the first research that connects lead paint and childhood lead poisoning to each other was made in Australia in 1897, forty year before the above ad was made.

And then the money shot;

France, Belgium and Austria banned white-lead interior paints in 1909; the League of Nations followed suit in 1922.[32] However, in the US, laws banning lead house paint were not passed until 1971, and it was phased out and not fully banned until 1978.

Italics taken from Wikipedia-article "lead poisoning". The article was heavily sourced and goes well together with what I knew beforehand.

Re: Not that this wasn't known

[ijusten.livejournal.com]

It was also known that even drinking from lead-cup was poisonous. Which leads to the Ceasar-comment. Proofreading has never been my strong suit. Sorry.

[zare-k.livejournal.com]

White lead also makes a great foundation makeup!

[library-chair.livejournal.com]

Except that it's so heavy it eventually falls off the walls...

[chuckloris.livejournal.com]

"Lead White" still exists as an oil painting color. Some people use it instead of gesso to prime canvases/whatever. But they don't use it for houses anymore. I hope. Actually, there are still a few colors for painting that have lead in them. Also, Cadmium is pretty bad too. Snobby artists think that since people in the past used it, it's better than new, safer paint. Yay.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's also called "Flake White." And cadmium is a heavy metal that can make you sterile. (Not a bad idea, IMHO.)

Phthalocyanine blue and green have cyanide, boys and girls! Painting is fun!