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FlyDed Insect Spray
- After 1927 – before 1959
Pesticide bottle with blue and white text on orange, blue, and white label. Insect graphics. Red screw cap.
- Manufacturer Boyle-Midway Inc.
- Subject Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides
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All Out for Abundance to Feed a Hungry World
- 1940s
Print advertisement for a range of insecticides and fungicides manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company, including "MIKE" Sulfur, DN-Dry Mix, and App-L-Set. The advertisement also includes tips for best spraying results.
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The Chemistry of Recreation
- 1941
Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company featuring a man and woman playing cards. The accompanying text details various applications of Dow products, including plastic resins, rubber, and insecticides, to…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Sports, Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Advertising, Plastics industry and trade, Advertising, Industrial, Women in advertising
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When It's Apple Blossom Time...in America!
- Advertisement for Dow Agricultural Chemicals
- 1941
Color print advertisement for a range of insecticides and fumigants manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features a branch of apple blossoms, with accompanying text detailing the use of…
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"Jes' Plumb Loco"
- Advertisement for Dow Agricultural Chemicals
- 1940s
Color print advertisement for weed killers manufactured and sold by the Agricultural Chemical Division of the Dow Chemical Company for use against locoweed and other noxious plants. The advertisement features an…
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The Chemistry of Good Food
- 1941
Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company depicting a woman holding a bag of groceries. The accompanying text details various applications of Dow products to aid in the production of a wholesome and…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Advertising, Food industry and trade, Advertising, Industrial, Women in advertising
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The Chemistry of the Home!
- 1941
Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company depicting a young boy and girl playing with a dollhouse. The accompanying text details various applications of Dow products to help promote advances in home…
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The Chemistry of Health
- 1941
Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company featuring an image of a young girl on a seesaw. The accompanying text details various applications of Dow products, including vitamins, fumigation, waste disposal,…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Public health, Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Advertising, Children in advertising, Advertising, Industrial
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Dowicide: A Look at Chemical Warfare
- 1941 – 1945
Advertisement for Dowicides, the trade name for a group of fungicide chemicals manufactured and marketed by the Dow Chemical Company as tools to prevent mold and decay. The advertisement features an army transport…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, World War (1939-1945), Corporations, Advertising, Humidity--Control, Fungicides
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Jasperware cameo portrait of an unknown man in profile
- After 1759 – before 1986
Cameo is oval with the profile of an unidentified man; profile is white and raised on a blue background with a raised dark blue border; cloth/paper covered oval shaped cardboard easel is attached to the back.
- Manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
- Subject Jasperware, Cameos, Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
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Jasperware cameo portrait of an unknown man
- After 1759 – before 1986
Cameo is oval with the portrait of an unidentified man looking forward; profile is white and raised on a blue background with a raised dark blue border; cloth/paper covered oval shaped cardboard easel is attached to the…
- Manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
- Subject Jasperware, Cameos, Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
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Periodic table in style of concentric circles on a plane
- 1941 (Original design)
- Circa 1957 (Date attributed to slide)
Graphic representation of the periodic table of chemical elements in the style of concentric circles on a plane. This table was originated by L. Sibaiya in 1941 and classified by chemist Edward G. Mazurs as Type IIIB4-3…
- Creator Of Work Sibaiya, L., Mazurs, Edward G.
- Subject Scientific illustration, Periodic table of the elements, Periodic law, Chemical elements
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Symmetrical series table constructed as a triangle
- 1937 – 1945 (Original design)
- Circa 1957 (Date attributed to slide)
Graphic representation of the periodic table of chemical elements constructed as a triangle. This type of table was originated by Henry A. Wagner and Harold Simmons Booth in 1945 after an incomplete drawing by Emil V.…
- Creator Of Work Mazurs, Edward G.
- Subject Scientific illustration, Periodic table of the elements, Periodic law, Chemical elements
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Alchemist seated in his laboratory
- Circa 1887 – circa 1963
The alchemist sits, stirring the contents of a crucible, as he carefully watches the progress of a distillation experiment. He is surrounded by alchemical apparatus, glassware, and open books. An hourglass at his side…
- Artist Reich, Adolf, 1887-1963
- Subject Alchemists, Reich, Adolf, 1887-1963, Alchemy in art, Alchemy
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Employee cutting powder strands at Radford Ordnance Works
- After 1940 – before 1946
General view of an unidentified female employee cutting strands of .50 caliber powder extruded from a press to the proper length at the Radford Ordnance Works in Radford, Virginia. The Radford Ordnance Works was…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Explosives, Military, Employees, Hercules Incorporated, World War (1939-1945), Explosives, Women employees, Machinery
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Bayer Orange Flavoured Children's Chewable Aspirin Bottle
- 1910 – 2007
- 1988
Small glass Bayer orange flavoured children's chewable aspirin bottle with pink plastic cap, 36 tablet size.
- Contributor Sterling Drug
- Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
- Subject Sterling Drug, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin
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Bayer Flavoured Children's Size Aspirin Bottle
- 1910 – 2007
Small glass Bayer flavoured children's size aspirin bottle with pink plastic cap, 36 tablet size, containing pink tablets.
- Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
- Subject Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin
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Can of Hopkins Rajah hair dye
- 1914 – 1967
Tin container of powdered henna pigment manufactured by S. B. Penick & Company. Henna is a dye prepared from the plant Lawsonia inermis, also known as the henna or mignonette tree. Whole henna leaves must be dried and…
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A Quartz Photoelectric Spectrophotometer
- 1941-Nov
The article is reprinted from the Journal of the Optical Society of America Vol. 31, No. 11, November 1941 and was presented at the Ninth Summer Conference on Spectroscopy and Its Applications, held at the Massachusetts…
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Interior of Beckman Model IR-1 Spectrophotometer
- 1940s
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…
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Announcing An Important New Beckman Development
- 1941-Sep-25
This advertisement, reprinted from the American Chemical Society News Edition, may be the earliest advertisement for the DU model. The page is stamped Apr 25 1961 (though the date is crossed out) and the reprint note is…
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Brine well at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1940s
General view of a brine well at the Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland, Michigan. Also known as salt wells, brine wells are used to extract salt from subterranean caverns or deposits for use in a variety of…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Salt, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Salt mines and mining
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Aerial view of Dow plant in Pittsburg, California
- 1940s
Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Pittsburg, California. A range of products and processes were researched, developed, and produced at the plant, including chlorination, textiles, fumigants, and…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Sunderland, Clyde
- Subject Aerial views, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Aerial photographs
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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, showing several large storage tanks and two unidentified individuals. Seeking a source of raw material…
