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8 items
Ecology: The Game of Man and Nature
- 1970
A white rectangular game box containing 1 instruction booklet, a stack of paper play money, 20 Luck cards, 21 Work cards, 24 Genius cards, 208 paper point tokens, 139 plastic rings, and 2 chart cards. The object of the…
- Creator Of Work Rosen, Richard H.
- Contributor Collins, Bert, Margie, Piret
- Publisher Urban Systems, Inc.
- Subject Board games, Environmental protection, Environmental protection--Study and teaching, Ecology
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4 items
Black Flag House and Garden Insect Spray
- After 1950 – before 1970
Black Flag brand insecticide aerosol spray can with black, green, and white text on yellow, white, and black label with insect and flag graphics. Round white cap.
- Manufacturer Boyle-Midway Inc.
- Subject Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides
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Teletype
- 1960s
Teletype telecommunication device with a QWERTY keyboard, acoustic couplers, and small LED screen to display typed text electronically. The text is transmitted live, via a telephone line, to a compatible device, i.e.…
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7 items
Swanson TV Dinner Swiss Steak box
- 1960s
Swanson TV Dinner box and tray. The cardboard box features the Swanson logo and an image of Swiss Steak in brown gravy with whipped potatoes and green beans.
- Manufacturer Campbell Soup Company
- Subject Ready meals, Campbell Soup Company, Dinners and dining, Convenience foods
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4 items
Standard Mothban Moth Killer
- After 1931 – before 1969
Standard brand Mothban aerosol spray can with red, white, and blue text on white and red background with Standard brand logo. Round red cap.
- Manufacturer Standard Oil Company
- Subject Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides
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2 items
Skil-Craft No. 506 Senior Chemistry Lab Case
- 1965 – 1969
Chemistry sets reached their heyday in the 1950s, but production of them began in the United States during World War I. Playing with a toy chemistry set inspired many a boy to become a chemist, and not until the late…
- Manufacturer Skil-Craft Corporation
- Subject Chemistry sets, Skil-Craft Corporation
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Skil-Craft No. 430 Microscope Chem Lab
- 1960 – 1969
Chemistry sets reached their heyday in the 1950s, but production of them began in the United States during World War I. Playing with a toy chemistry set inspired many a boy to become a chemist, and not until the late…
- Manufacturer Skil-Craft Corporation
- Subject Chemistry sets, Skil-Craft Corporation
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Skil-Craft Microscope Lab Case
- 1963 – 1969
Chemistry sets reached their heyday in the 1950s, but production of them began in the United States during World War I. Playing with a toy chemistry set inspired many a boy to become a chemist, and not until the late…
- Manufacturer Skil-Craft Corporation
- Subject Chemistry sets, Skil-Craft Corporation
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2 items
Miller's 50% DDT Wettable
- After 1937 – before 1969
Miller's brand pesticide can with black and yellow text on red, yellow, and green label. Butterfly and landscape graphics.
- Subject Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides
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Kotex Wonderform belt
- 1960s
Kotex Wonderform belt in a purple cardboard box with a cut-out window displaying a white belt against a gold background.
Sanitary belts such as the Kotex Wonderform belt were most commonly worn for menstruation between…
- Manufacturer Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- Subject Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Menstrual products, Menstruation, Women--Health and hygiene
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2 items
Gilbert no. 13025 Microscope and Lab Set
- 1960 – 1969
White metal case with color graphic of two young boys using the Gilbert microscope set. Case opens on a hinge. Inside, a blue styrofoam tray holds a plastic microscope, an electric plug-in light, an objective lens, a…
- Manufacturer A.C. Gilbert Company
- Subject Chemistry sets, Microscopes, A.C. Gilbert Company
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3 items
Dropsonde
- 1960s
Dropsonde instruments are cylindrical metal devices containing pressure, temperature, and humidity sensors to capture atmospheric profiles and thermodynamic data. The instruments are designed to be dropped from an…
- Creator Of Work Bendix Corporation
- Subject Radiosondes, Dropwindsondes, Weather, Weather forecasting, Storms, Meteorology
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Arnold Garden Hose Sprayer for Insect Control
- 1960s
Arnold brand pesticide garden hose sprayer.
A. Metal and green plastic garden hose attachment. Long neck with sprayer tip and valve near garden hose attachment area. Green plastic tube holds pesticide chemicals.
B.…- Manufacturer Garden Hose Spray Company, Inc.
- Subject Pests--Control, Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides
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2 items
Skein Dyed Yarn
- 1928 – 1968
Four skeins of yarn, connected in bundles of two. Each has been skein dyed with General Aniline & Film Corporation dye, 1% Acid Alizarine Brown RRL-CF and 1% Supralan Grey BRLS-CF. There is a paper label attached to…
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7 items
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for Menopause and Menstruation
- After 1900 – before 1968
Lydia E. Pinkham brand "Vegetable Compound", containing extract of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood), Asclepias Tuberosa (Pleurisy Root), Cimicifuga Racemosa (Black Cohosh), Vitamin B1, Dandelion, and other…
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Lydia E. Pinkham Menstrual Relief Tablets
- After 1882 – before 1968
Lydia E. Pinkham brand menstrual pain relief tablets, containing extract of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood), Asclepias Tuberosa (Pleurisy Root), Glycyrrhiza (Licorice), and Ferrous Sulfate.
Lydia E. Pinkham, née…
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Crystal puller
- Circa 1964 – 1968
Used to create silicon ingots for use in the semiconductor industry, this crystal puller consists of two main parts, the furnace and the puller: the furnace is cylindrical and located at the bottom of the instrument, it…
- Creator Of Work Lorenzini, Robert E.
- Manufacturer Elmat
- Subject Silicon, Semiconductors
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Shell Tox Aerosol Insecticide
- After 1941 – before 1967
Shell brand insecticide aerosol spray can with red and white text on red, gold, and white label with shell and insect graphic.
- Manufacturer Shell Oil Company
- Subject Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides
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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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Sargent Molecular Model Kit
- 1955 – 1965
White cardboard box with blue writing; contains black, blue, yellow, red, and green spheres as well as wooden and metal connectors.
Models kits, such as this one, are often found in laboratories and classrooms and are…
- Manufacturer E.H. Sargent and Company
- Subject Molecules--Models
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Kenner's Girder & Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set No. 11
- 1960 – 1965
- Manufacturer Kenner Products
- Subject Educational toys--Design and construction
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Alchemist in Green Using Bellows
- Circa 1928 – 1965
An alchemist wearing a green robe uses a pair of bellows to control the heat of the fire beneath his crucible. Other vessels sit on the furnace at his side, and to his left a large still-head for distillation rests over…
- After Teniers, David, 1610-1690
- Subject Teniers, David, 1610-1690, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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Metrohm E 1009 Spectrocolorimeter
- 1963
A spectrocolorimeter is a form of spectrophotometer that can calculate tristimulus values, or the the light intensity of primary color values in a sample.
- Manufacturer Metrohm AG
- Subject Colorimetry, Spectrophotometry, Colors, Spectrum analysis
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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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Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash Camera
- 1954 – 1962
Kodak brand Brownie Holiday Flash camera; Dakon plastic lens with rotary shutter; molded brown and tan Bakelite body; three metal sockets on right side of the camera body meant for mounting flash bulb; braided cord…
- Manufacturer Eastman Kodak Company
- Subject Eastman Kodak Company, Plastics, Cameras, Photography, Bakelite
