U. S. G. Co's. Mexican graphite paint : its uses and users.
A 1914 trade catalogue issued by the United States Graphite Company of Saginaw, Michigan, promoting its Mexican graphite paint through photographs of industrial and civic buildings it protected. The pictures show factories, a cold storage plant, a theatre, a training school and office blocks, each captioned with its owner and location. A designer might take from them the plain, documentary look of early twentieth-century commercial architecture photography, with its stark tonal contrast and rows of regular windows.
