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Comprised of materials relating to advertising, customer communications, trade shows and fairs, and Internet Marketing as well as product brochures and price lists.

Documents the general history and philosophy of the company. Including corporate organization, licenses and permits, consultations/consultants, statistics and surveys taken by outside organizations, insurance, and branding.

This subseries is divided into seven sections - - materials, equipment, production statistics/analysis, inventories, glaze logs and mixing records, orders, and shipping logs - - that follow the production process.

The collection consists of the fragile original plans and specifications for the houses in St. Francis Wood. Unlike the rest of the collections at the EDA, these plans are listed by address on the project index.

This series contains approximately 30 original works of art including drawings and paintings of landscapes and structures. Media includes watercolor, oils, charcoal, and pencil. This also contains photocopies of Dahlstrand’s paintings not in the EDA.

Contains professional and amateur photographs documenting production and products including dinnerware, tiles, birdbaths, mosaics, ashtrays, and trays. See the Project Index for photographs of specific tile installations. Photographs are divided by subject matter and photographer, when known. Box 24A contains loosely organized 35 mm negatives some are of prints that appear in this series other images are only in negative form.

Contains slides taken by professionals and amateurs documenting production and products including dinnerware, tiles, tile tables, ashtrays, planters, ceramic sinks, and aluminum screens. See the project index for slides of specific tile installations. Slides are arranged by subject matter.

Contains correspondence, agreements with distribution and manufacturing partners.

Contains ceramic artifacts representing the range of products and glazes manufactured by Heath Ceramics over the years. Specific pieces include ashtrays, buttons, casseroles, hand thrown dinnerware from Gump’s, dinnerware produced in partnership with Wedgwood, tile samples, extrusions, the L.A. Times handrail extrusion, house numbers, glaze sample boards, and a four-sided column of mounted tile samples from the Heath showroom.

Consists primarily of records relating to union activity at Heath Ceramics, government employment agencies, internship/employment partners, and Heath employees. Employee lists are within the Heath employee’s section.