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Union Pacific Railroad car featuring Plexiglas
- 1953-Feb
General view of a Union Pacific Railroad car featuring Plexiglas panels concealed under metal screens. Per notations accompanying the photograph, this box car was used to test and measure the movement of the panels and…
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Chemist at work in Dow Agricultural Research and Development Laboratory
- Circa 1952
General view of an unidentified employee measuring the specific gravity of a specimen in the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory. Per an article in the August 1941 edition of…
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Chemist at work in Dow Agricultural Research and Development Laboratory
- Circa 1952
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory, with view of assorted laboratory equipment and apparatus. Per an article in the…
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Mark Wolf at work in Dow Agricultural Research and Development Laboratory
- Circa 1952
General view of chemist Mark Wolf preparing a sample for analysis at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory facilities. Per an article in the August 1941 edition of the Dow…
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Bernie Thiegs at work in Dow Agricultural Research and Development Laboratory
- 1954
General view of chemist Bernie Thiegs working with various specimens at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory facilities. Per an article in the August 1941 edition of the …
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Gene Kenaga examining stored grain insect cultures at Dow Agricultural Chemical Research Laboratory
- 1953-Mar
General view of entomologist E.E. ("Gene") Kenaga at work in the storage room for grain insect cultures at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory. Per notations accompanying…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Agricultural chemicals, Employees, Chemical industry, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Agricultural chemistry, Insect pests, Kenaga, E.E.
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Bernie Thiegs preparing insecticide at Dow agricultural laboratory
- 1941-Aug
General view of chemist Bernie Thiegs preparing an insecticide intended to combat potato beetles at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory facilities. Per an article in the…
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Employees at work in Dow Agricultural Chemical Research Laboratory
- 1941-Aug
General view of two employees at work in a Dow Chemical Company Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory facility. Per an article in the August 1941 edition of the Dow Diamond, the department was…
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Greenhouse at Dow Agricultural Chemical Research Laboratory
- 1941-Aug
General view of the central corridor of a greenhouse associated with the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory. Per an article in the August 1941 edition of the Dow Diamond, …
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Agricultural chemicals, Employees, Chemical industry, Plants, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Greenhouses, Agricultural chemistry
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Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia
- Circa 1960-Jul
Elevated view of the exterior of the Hercules Powder Company plant facilities in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval stores, the Brunswick plant extracted rosin, turpentine, and pine oil…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Naval stores industry, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores
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Heat treatment tank at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of several employees using a crane to move a heat treatment tank in preparation for the expansion of rosin-making facilities at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Cranes, derricks, etc., Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Machinery
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John Cloer at work in foam house facility at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of safety inspector John Cloer at work in the foam house at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia, with view of assorted fire-fighting and fire-suppression apparatus. One of two Hercules…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies, Machinery, Cloer, John
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Pat Bodie examining rosin sample at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of office machine operator Pat Bodie examining a sample of rosin at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval stores, the Brunswick plant…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Gums and resins, Women employees, Bodie, Pat
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Mary Moffit operating infrared spectrophotometer at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of technician Mary Moffit using an infrared spectrophotometer to analyze a sample of the insect repellent Metadelphene in a laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. Per…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Chemical industry, Laboratories, Spectrophotometer, Infrared spectroscopy, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Women employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Employees, Moffit, Mary
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Hubbie H. Hattaway operating acetylene cutting torch at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of boilermaker Hubbie H. Hattaway operating an acetylene cutting torch in the machine shop at the Hercules Powder Company plant located in Brunswick, Georgia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Machinery, Welding, Hattaway, Hubbie H.
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Evelyn Kieffer using reactor flask at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of research assistant Evelyn Kieffer using a reactor flask to analyze an unidentified substance in a laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Chemical industry, Laboratories, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Women employees, Women in science, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Kieffer, Evelyn
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Tank car loading station at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of the tank car loading station used to transport hot rosin at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval stores, the Brunswick plant extracted…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Chemical industry, Tank cars, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores
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Toxaphene building at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of the exterior of the manufacturing facilities for Toxaphene, an insecticide concentrate, at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores
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Rosin building at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
Exterior view of a rosin manufacturing facility at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia with view of digesters on right-hand side. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval stores, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores
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Edward Newmans clearing extractor tank at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of employee Edward Newmans clearing spent wood chips from an extractor tank at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval stores, the Brunswick…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Extraction apparatus, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, African Americans, Machinery, Newmans, Edward
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Stan Fenelon and Clarence Darley examining rosin solution evaporator at Hercules Brunswick plant
- Circa 1960-Jul
General view of Stan Fenelon (left), Pexite rosin and refinery supervisor, and Clarence Darley (right), day relief operator, examining the rosin solution evaporator apparatus at the Hercules Powder Company plant in…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Tharp, Gil
- Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Evaporators, Corporations, Naval stores, Machinery, Darley, Clarence, Fenelon, Stan
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Oral history interview with Arthur L. Babson
- 2011-Dec-06 (First session)
- 2011-Dec-08 (Second session)
Arthur L. Babson grew up in Essex Fells, New Jersey. Babson began college and the Army Special Training Reserve Program at Rutgers University but was expelled for missing a single class. He then worked in a laboratory…
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Oral history interview with William John Bailey
- 1986-Jun-03
The interview begins with William Bailey describing his upbringing in rural Minnesota, where his family operated a small lumber business. An outstanding high school teacher sparked Bailey's interest in science, and he…
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Oral history interview with Robert Armstrong
- 1986-May-01
Dr. Robert Armstrong describes his childhood in Nebraska and Arizona and how he managed to support himself through undergraduate and graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He remembers the…
- Interviewee Armstrong, Robert T. (Robert Thexton), 1909-1992
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Celanese Corporation of America, Armstrong, Robert T. (Robert Thexton), 1909-1992, United States Rubber Company, Rubber chemistry, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Chemists--Biography, Polymerization, North American Rayon Corporation
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9 items
Oral history interview with Neal R. Amundson
- 1990-Oct-24
Neal Amundson begins the interview with a discussion of his family and early years in St. Paul, Minnesota. Amundson graduated from high school at the very depth of the Depression. For the Amundson family, times were…
- Interviewee Amundson, Neal R. (Neal Russell), 1916-2011
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Amundson, Neal R. (Neal Russell), 1916-2011, Heat--Transmission, Adsorption, Chemical engineering--Mathematics, University of Houston, Analytical chemistry, University of Minnesota, Chemical engineers, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Chromatographic analysis
