Documents in our library describe Gothic (Eternit, Inc.) as “asbestos cement shingle with a rugged texture, heavy butt, offered in random widths, staggered sizes and ten colors”.1 They give it as sold from 1932.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Gothic (Eternit, Inc.) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1932, October 1932
- Sold from: “one of the two latest textures to be introduced to the home builder”, p. 251
- Description: “asbestos cement shingle with a rugged texture, heavy butt, offered in random widths, staggered sizes and ten colors”, p. 251
Kind of product
We list Gothic (Eternit, Inc.) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and joint compound and texture coatings, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Drywall Finishers, Plasterers, and Painters, Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Eternit, Inc. (2)
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (381)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Formboard (Philip Carey) · Frycor (Owens-Corning) · Fyrbestos (Keene/Beh) · Galbestos (H.H. Robertson) · Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) · Glatex (U.S. Gypsum) · Gold Bond (Asbestone) · Gothic (maker not given) · Gothic (Ruberoid) · Grain-Tex (maker not given) · Granostruct (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · Granowall (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · Hansonite (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Hansonite (Keene/Beh) · Hardiflex (James Hardie & Co.) · and 361 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
Joint compound and texture coatings by other makers (23)
Imperial (U.S. Gypsum) · Sheetrock (U.S. Gypsum) · Vitramic (maker not given) · A.B. Tex (U.S. Gypsum) · Texolite (U.S. Gypsum) · Surco (Surface Coatings) · Textone (U.S. Gypsum) · Usg (U.S. Gypsum) · Wall (Georgia-Pacific) · Ceiling (Georgia-Pacific) · Covercoat (U.S. Gypsum) · Durabond (U.S. Gypsum) · Homart (Sears) · Joint compound (U.S. Gypsum) · Kemidol (U.S. Gypsum) · Pac-Tex (U.S. Gypsum) · Paste Spackling Putty (U.S. Gypsum) · Perf-a-tape (U.S. Gypsum) · Ready Mix (Georgia-Pacific) · Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · and 3 more: all joint compound and texture coatings
See also
- Eternit, Inc.: the company's documents, people, products and plants
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1932, October 1932 (October 1, 1932), p. 25.
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