Tupperware Ladies and Tupperware Parties became an icon of midcentury suburban living and an early form of multilevel marketing. Above, a party sometime in the 1950s. Getty Images About eight years ...

In late 1951, inventor Earl Tupper bought a thousand acres of cow pasture and swamp in Kissimmee, just outside the quiet farm town of Orlando, Florida. There, he and his new vice president and general ...

In late 1951, inventor Earl Tupper bought a thousand acres of cow pasture and swamp in Kissimmee, just outside the quiet farm town of Orlando, Florida. There, he and his new vice president and general ...