When it comes to leftovers, these days, any plastic — or glass — container will do. But for decades, that plastic storage container was Tupperware, created by Earl Tupper right here in Massachusetts.

SMITHFIELD – Earl Tupper’s first business failed. His attempt at landscaping and running a nursery was scuttled by the Great Depression. A next chance eventually came from DuPont, and Tupper began ...

A few days before the nuclear explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, J. W. McCoy, a DuPont vice president, addressed a manufacturers' workshop on converting factories from military to consumer ...

Earl S. Tupper molded plastics into parties and a pop-culture phenomenon. Now the lid has been sealed on an era in American consumer culture. Months after Tupperware Brands Corp. shuttered its last ...

A divorced mom's marketing moxie helped an inventor's vision blossom into a cultural phenomenon that helped transform sales techniques and women's self esteem In the 1950s, American women discovered ...

Founded by Earl Tupper in 1946, the Tupperware Plastics company may have reached the end of the line. Now trading as Tupperware Brands, it filed for bankruptcy yesterday citing “the challenging ...

This series consists of material assembled by Neil Osterweil, a writer/researcher commissioned by the Tupper family to write Earl Tupper's biography. Most of the materials assembled here as research ...