Chief Paints

Most rural American homes in the early 1900's were made of logs or rough sawn wood.
Those homes did not get painted - ever! Paint was expensive and hard to find. When personal incomes improved so did house improvement products......including finished wood for home siding........and paint. Yea !!!!! At that point in history a person
could have a house painted any color(s) they wanted. What a break-through!

Depending on your local climate, a paint job might last you 3 to 8 years if you were lucky. Paints had lead in them, came in various qualities, and all of them required
paint thinner to clean up your paint brushes. There were about as many paint compaines as there were hairs on a dogs back. One of them was Chief Paints (see photo). Like most of those early paint companies......they came and went like most of them.