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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1945-Jan-15
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of a woman styled as Rosie the Riveter lifting a tool presumably made of…
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1943-May-03
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of a fighter plane alongside a hand lifting a bar of magnesium…
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- Circa 1942
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an outline of an aircraft partially superimposed over a bar of magnesium floating above…
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1943-Feb-01
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of a hand lifting a bar of magnesium from the sea superimposed…
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- Circa 1942
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of a fleet of aircraft bombers alongside a graph documenting a…
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1,000 Pounds Per Plane!
- Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1942-Jun-04
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of an aircraft bomber, with accompanying text detailing Dow's…
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1943-Aug
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of the production of aircraft bombers alongside a hand lifting a…
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1945
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of passengers boarding a plane presumably made of Dowmetal. The…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Magnesium, Magnesium alloys, Magnesium industry and trade, Aircraft industry
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1943-Mar-22
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of a fleet of aircraft bombers alongside a hand lifting a bar of…
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1945-May-14
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features illustrated depictions production machinery presumably made from Dowmetal. The…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Magnesium, Magnesium alloys, Magnesium industry and trade, Machinery, Machinery industry
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1945-Jun-25
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features illustrated depictions of women using typewriters presumably made from Dowmetal. The…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Magnesium, Magnesium alloys, Magnesium industry and trade, Women in advertising
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9 Billion Pounds in Every Cubic Mile of Sea Water
- 1942-Mar-16
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of seawater, with accompanying text detailing the history of Dow…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Magnesium, Magnesium alloys, Magnesium industry and trade, Seawater
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Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1943-Jun-14
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of a fleet of aircraft bombers alongside a hand lifting a bar of…
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Page 109, printed as page 190
- 1709
This page is from A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom, published in 1709. This page is notable due to the existence of a typo in…
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Model of a floor
- 1709
This plate from A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom. It depicts a floor plan Samuel Sorbière (1615-1670) saw during his visit to…
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Introduction to M. Samuel Sorbière's letter to King Louis XIV
- 1709
This page introduces a letter written to King Louis XIV (1638-1715), published in A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom. It was…
- Author Sorbière, Samuel, 1615-1670, Graverol, M., Sprat, Thomas, 1635- 1713
- Printer Woodard, J.
- Subject Travel, Voyages and travels, Travelers, Great Britain, England--London, Netherlands--Holland (Province), England, Religion and science, Religion, Curiosities and wonders, Sorbière, Samuel, 1615-1670, Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713, Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654), Science--Study and teaching, Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, Letter
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Memoirs for the Life of M. Samuel Sorbiere
- 1709
This page introduces the section of A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom that contains a memoir of the life of Monsieur Samuel…
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Title page of A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom
- 1709
This title page from A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom works as a combined title page and index, laying out the order of the…
- Author Sorbière, Samuel, 1615-1670, Graverol, M., Sprat, Thomas, 1635- 1713
- Printer Woodard, J.
- Subject Travel, Voyages and travels, Travelers, Great Britain, England--London, Netherlands--Holland (Province), England, Religion and science, Religion, Curiosities and wonders, Sorbière, Samuel, 1615-1670, Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713, Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654), Science--Study and teaching
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Figure 43: Arctic explorers using dynamite to open a channel through the ice
- 1884
Color plate depicts arctic explorers using dynamite to open a channel through ice. The explorers stand on the ice holding ice picks. An explosion occurs on the horizon with a masted ship seen in the distance.
This…
- Author Appleton, John Howard, 1844-1930
- Publisher Providence Lithograph Company
- Subject Chemistry, Textbooks, Science--Study and teaching, Arctic Regions, Explorers, Dynamite
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Portrait of Joseph Priestley
- 1884
Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), who was an English clergyman and natural philosopher who discovered oxygen.
This plate is from John Howard Appleton's (1844-1930) Chemistry, Developed by Facts and Principles…
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Figure 25: Photographer working in a darkroom
- 1884
Color plate depicts a photographer working in a darkroom. He holds a glass plate, presumably a negative, over a processing tub. The surrounding walls contain various glass vessels. The explanatory text states how the…
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Figure 20: Early method of bleaching cotton and linen goods on lawns
- 1884
Color plate illustrates an early method of bleaching cotton and linen goods on lawns. Two women stand amongst a vast landscape holding watering cans over strips of white cloth. Decorative frame is bordered by foliage…
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Figure 21: Bleaching of pulp for the manufacture of paper
- 1884
Plate depicts the interior of a factory where the bleaching of pulp is being undertaken for the manufacturing of paper. Two workers stand amongst vats of bleach and machinery.
This plate is from John Howard Appleton's…
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Charles A. Wright's Original Cholera Balm label
- Circa 1900
The label for Charles A. Wright's Origininal [Original] Cholera Balm includes dosing instructions for adults and children. It was marketed as a treatment for a wide range of gastrointestinal ailments including cholera…
- Manufacturer Wright, Charles A.
- Subject Quacks and quackery, Labels, Therapeutics, Gastroenteritis, Drugs, Nonprescription, Patent medicines, Drugs, Pharmacy, Medicine, Wright, Charles A.
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Portrait of Sir Humphry Davy
- 1884
Half-length portrait print of Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829). Davy was an English chemist and inventor who invented the field of electrochemistry. He is best known for his work isolating numerous elements using…
