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  Personal correspondence

  Letter to Ernst Berl from Samuel Harden Church, December 4, 1934

  • 1934-Dec-04

  Letter from Samuel Harden Church (1858-1943) to Ernst Berl (1877-1946), acknowledging that he has received from Berl various items issued by the German government, likely during the hyperinflation period in post-World…

  • Author Church, Samuel Harden, 1858-1943
  • Addressee Berl, Ernst, 1877-1946
  • Subject Berl, Ernst, 1877-1946, Church, Samuel Harden, 1858-1943, Avinoff, Andrey, 1884-1949, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Inflation, Germany
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  3 items
  Records (Documents), Photographs

  Georg Bredig's German Reich identification card

  • 1938-Aug-17

  Georg Bredig's (186801944) German Reich identification card. Georg Bredig was a German physical chemist known for his work with catalysts, reaction kinetics, and electrochemistry. In 1898 he created Bredig's Arc…

  • Creator Of Work Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
  • Subject Germany, Identification cards, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, National socialism, Third Reich, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
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  3 items
  Personal correspondence

  Letter from Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, September 13, 1936

  • 1936-Sep-13

  Letter from Georg Bredig (1868-1944) to his son Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977) about sending him books and newspaper clippings. He expresses his wish for Max to visit him and take care of his health. Georg mentions…

  • Author Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
  • Addressee Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
  • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Homburger, Marianne, 1903-1986, Germany, National socialism, Third Reich
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  Ephemera

  Umzugsgut von Auswanderern

  • Removal of goods from emigrants

  • 1938-May-15

  • Subject Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.), Germany, Immigrants, Third Reich
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  Ephemera

  Leumundszeugnis

  • Certificate of Reputation

  • 1939-Jul-06

  Copy of Georg Bredig's (1868-1944) Leumundszeugnis (certification of good character) issued to him in 1939. These documents were required for emigrating from Germany.

  • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Emigration and immigration, Germany, National socialism, Third Reich
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  Personal correspondence, Postcards

  Postcard from Otto Dimroth to Georg Bredig, October 1935

  • 1935-Oct-25

  Otto Dimroth (1872-1940) writes to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) about accidentally taking his hat. Otto Dimroth, the father of chemist Karl Dimroth (1910-1995), was a German scientist. He is the inventor of the Dimroth…

  • Author Dimroth, Otto, 1872-1940
  • Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
  • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Dimroth, Otto, 1872-1940, Germany, Chemists, Rearrangements (Chemistry), Condensers (Vapors and gases)
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  3 items
  Personal correspondence

  Letter to James Curtis Booth from his minister, William H. Van Vleck

  • 1834-Jan-24

  An encomium to Germany, where James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) was studying, as "the cradle of the Reformation and the nurse of science and literature" and a caution to diligence.

  • Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
  • Author Van Vleck, William Henry, 1790-1853
  • Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Van Vleck, William Henry, 1790-1853, Christian life, Germany
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  2 items
  Advertisements, Ephemera

  Trade card for celluloid waterproof collars and cuffs with German Empire and postman

  • Circa 1888

  Trade card for waterproof celluloid collars and cuffs depicts a mailman holding a celluloid trademark card standing on a map of the German Empire. The flag of the German Empire is visible in the lower right hand corner…

  • Printer Donaldson Brothers (Firm)
  • Subject Germany, Advertising cards, Advertising, Printed ephemera, Celluloid
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  3 items
  Business correspondence

  Letter from W. A. Wildhack to Arnold O. Beckman

  • 1950-Apr-27

  The letter concerns importation of spectrophotometers into Germany and France, the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), and post-war atomic energy restrictions.

  • Addressee Beckman, Arnold O.
  • Author Wildhack, W. A.
  • Subject Imports, Scientific apparatus and instruments, International trade, Allied High Commission for Germany, Germany, Beckman Instruments, Inc., United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
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  Postage stamps

  First Day Cover commemorating Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany

  • 1957

  Depicts Justus von Liebig, known for his work in agricultural and organic chemistry.

  • Subject Postage stamps, Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Germany, Cachets (Philately), Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von, 1803-1873, First day covers (Philately)
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  Postage stamps

  First Day Cover commemorating Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  • 1979

  Cachet depicts Otto Hahn's equipment and the nuclear fission of uranium atoms. Stamp shows Hahn's diagram of the splitting of the uranium nucleus. Hahn was the Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry in 1944.

  • Subject Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968, Postage stamps, Chemists, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Nuclear fission, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), Germany
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  Postage stamps

  Postage stamp commemorating German emergency aid

  • 1934

  Stamp issued by the "Deutsche Reich" government under Nazi rule depicting images associated with the profession of chemistry.

  • Subject Postage stamps, Chemistry, National socialism, Third Reich, Science on postage stamps, Germany
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  Postage stamps

  German postage stamp commemorating Fritz Haber

  • After 1950 – before 1995

  Stamp depicts profile of Fritz Haber who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas, which allowed for the large-scale synthesis of…

  • Subject Postage stamps, Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934, Chemists, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Germany
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  Photographs

  German food purity team visit to Beckman Instruments

  • 1957-Nov-08

  Arnold O. Beckman, founder and CEO of Beckman Instruments, is standing on the right. The other people in this image are unidentified.

  • Photographer Dietrich, T. A.
  • Subject Food industry and trade--Safety measures, Globes, Food--Safety measures, Germany, Beckman Instruments, Inc.