Porcelain Thermometer for Carter White Lead All Weather Pain showing at the bottom a can of the company’s paint.

Condition: Excellent Size: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 Publisher: Postcard This vintage postcard is in Excellent condition. It features man pouring white lead paint. This postcard measures approximately 3 1/2 x 5 1/2. The reverse side is unused.

This is the one-time location of the Carter White Lead Company factory in East Omaha.

I modified an original black and white logo for the Carter White Lead Company, which had factories in Omaha, Chicago and later Montreal.

This is Omaha industrialist Levi Carter, Jr. (1830-1903) who founded the Carter White Lead Company along with several other companies in the city.

This is an 1878 ad for the Omaha White Lead Company, the predecessor of the Carter White Lead Company.

This 1915 Carter White Lead shows a paint can covering a house with the word "Protected" underneath.

This 1917 Carter White Lead paint ad suggests a painter coming home from war, immediately putting on his painting overalls with his wife watching.

This is a 1917 ad for Carter White Lead paint, "Turning out a good job."

This 1917 Carter White Lead paint ad says its "The WHITE White Way." Is that about the quality of the color, or are the racist overtones intentional?

This is a 1915 ad for Carter White Lead paint.

This 1917 ad stub is for local businesses to use to advertise Carter White Lead paint.

This 1916 image shows a painter using Carter White Lead paint while the woman is reading a color sampling from the company.

This warning label says Carter White Lead Company will pay $100 if anyone finds "adulterant" in this package.

This 1917 ad suggests Carter White Lead paint is "home insurance."

This is a 1916 ad for Carter White Lead paint.

This image is for Carter White Lead paint, "The Painter's Paint," from a trade magazine in January 1916.

This is a 1916 advertising image for Carter White Lead paint in tins.

This is part of the cover image to a 1916 edition of The Carter Times, a paint industry magazine produced by the Carter White Lead Company.

These images were to use in local advertisements for Carter White Lead paint.

These images were for local advertisers to use to sell Carter White Lead paint.

This is from the cover of a 1916 Carter White Lead advertisement

This then-and-now comparison graphic shows the Micklin Lumber Company Building at 2109 North 24th Street. Built in 1911, it was listed as part of the North 24th and Lake Streets Historic District in 2016. Its shown here in 1939 and 2019.