This small collection consists of sales photographs that show window displays and art sales exhibits with a live artist demonstrating how to use DUCO paints to repurpose old furniture and household objects in front of a crowd of people.

The artist, Edgar Brasseur (1888-1958), was a paint sales representative for the Pittsburgh Glass Company. Brasseur used the art techniques of Peter Hunt (1896-1967), who popularized Pennsylvania Dutch-style tole painting and artwork. Peter Hunt partnered with the DuPont Company and used their nitrocellulose DUCO lacquer paints, often also used by railroad and automobile companies for being tough and providing even coverage. Many of Hunt's and DuPont's joint painting instruction manuals, such as "Transformagic by DuPont," were sold with the paints and patterns at these exhibits.

Brasseur is shown in many of these photographs standing at an easel painting a large canvas or painting a bookcase or other household object in front of an audience. Some views of the demonstration are taken through the window, while other views only depict the window display. The exhibits show a large gathering of audience members at several different locations.

A majority of the photographs were taken by Fred Hess & Son, photographers, a studio that was begun by Ferdinand "Fred" Hess (1858-1932), a Jewish-American photographer who was active in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and later partnered with his son, Myron Hess (1898-1950).