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Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- After 1934 – before 1970
General view of a section of the interior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…
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Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- After 1934 – before 1970
General view of a section of the exterior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…
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Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- After 1934 – before 1970
General view of a section of the exterior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…
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Moore filters at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1950s
Overhead view of the Moore filters used to filter magnesium hydrate slurry at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Freeport, Texas.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Magnesium, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Filters and filtration
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Moore filters at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1950s
General view of Moore filters used to process magnesium hydrate at the Dow Chemical Company's plant located in Freeport, Texas.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Magnesium, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Filters and filtration
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Caustic soda evaporators at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1950s
General view of the caustic soda evaporators at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Freeport, Texas. Also known as sodium hydroxide, caustic soda was commonly used to produce ethyl cellulose per the process…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Sodium hydroxide, Industries, Ethylcellulose, Dow Chemical Company
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Sea water intake at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1950s
General view of the sea water intake apparatus at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Freeport, Texas. Dow commonly processed sea water to obtain magnesium, the world's lightest structural metal.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Magnesium, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Magnesium industry and trade, Seawater
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Dow Chemical Company Styrene plant
- 1950s
General view of the exterior of a section of the Dow Chemical Company's Styrene plant located in Freeport, Texas. An organic compound derived from benzene, styrene is a precursor to polystyrene and was popularized in…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Styrene industry, Monomers, Styrene
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Molding area at Dow sand foundry
- Circa 1953
General view of employees at work in the molding area of the sand foundry at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Bay City, Michigan. Sand casting (or sand molded casting) is a metal casting process wherein sand is used as…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Metal castings industry, Employees, Industries, Foundry workers, Dow Chemical Company, Sand casting, Metal castings
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Dow Chemical Company Vinyltoluene plant
- Circa 1953
General view, taken at night, of the exterior of the Dow Chemical Company's Vinyltoluene plant located in Midland, Michigan. An organic compound derived from styrene, vinyltoluene is commonly used in the production of…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Rotkin, Charles
- Subject Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Monomers
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Reaction vessels at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1953
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company plant facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Several industrial-sized reaction vessels are visible in the photograph.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Machinery
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Dow Chemical Company Demineralization plant
- 1950s
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's Demineralization plant located in Midland, Michigan. In industrial applications, demineralization commonly refers to the process of removing…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company
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Dow Chemical Company Vinyltoluene plant
- Circa 1953
General view of the exterior of the Dow Chemical Company's Vinyltoluene plant located in Midland, Michigan. An organic compound derived from styrene, vinyltoluene is commonly used in the production of specialized…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Monomers
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Shipping tanks at Dow Chemical Company
- 1950s
General view of assorted shipping tanks in the rail yard at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Industries, Dow Chemical Company
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Dow Chemical Company Latex plant
- 1950s
Exterior view of a section of the Dow Chemical Company's Latex plant located in Midland, Michigan. In concert with Dow facilities in Freeport, Texas, the Midland plant produced a range of latex coatings materials for…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Shetzley, Bill
- Subject Chemical industry, Industries, Latex, Dow Chemical Company
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Weather-O-Meter in Dow Coatings Technical Service department
- 1950s
General view of an unidentified employee using an Atlas Weather-O-Meter in the Dow Chemical Company's Coatings Technical Service department, which developed a range of materials used to improve the performance of paints…
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Dow Chemical Company Glycol plant
- 1950s
General view of the interior of a section of the Dow Chemical Company Glycol plant located in Midland, Michigan.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Industries, Glycols, Dow Chemical Company, Machinery
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Dow Chemical Company Ethylene plant
- Circa 1953
General view of the exterior of a section of the Dow Chemical Company Ethylene plant located in Midland, Michigan.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Ethylene
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Magnesium production at Dow Chemical Company
- 1950s
General view of the production of magnesium sheets at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. As visible in the photograph, magnesium sheets were cold-rolled on mills during production, while hot mills served…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Magnesium, Dow Chemical Company
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Power house at Dow Chemical Company
- 1950s
Interior view of a section of the South Side Power House at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Power-plants
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Power house at Dow Chemical Company
- 1950s
Interior view of a section of the South Side Power House at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan, showing a control panel and two unidentified employees.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Control boards (Electrical engineering), Power-plants
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Dow Chemical Company Chlorobenzene Plant
- 1950s
General view of a section of the Dow Chemical Company's Chlorobenzene Plant located in Midland, Michigan. Chlorobenzene is commonly used to produce pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, plastics, glazing materials,…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Chlorobenzene, Industries, Dow Chemical Company
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Dow Chemical Company main office
- 1950s
Exterior view of the main office building at the Dow Chemical Company's headquarters in Midland, Michigan.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company
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Dow Chemical Company lead arsenate plant
- 1950s
Interior view of the Dow Chemical Company's lead arsenate plant with partial view of industrial machinery and barrels used for storage and transport. An inorganic pesticide, lead arsenate was first used to combat gypsy…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Factories, Pesticides industry, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Pesticides, Lead arsenate
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Beckman Model D2 oxygen analyzer with cord and bulb
- 1950s
Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman Instruments’ oxygen analyzers ended up doing such diverse jobs as monitoring astronauts’ respiration, maintaining packaged food safety,…
- Photographer Hesketh, Dean D.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.