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Easy Rests the Head
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet discusses how to determine a harmonious color scheme when redecorating a bedroom. Describes…
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Dynamic Test Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station
- Circa 1949
General view of the Dynamic Test Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station showing forced vibration machines and other equipment used to test rubber articles produced at the Station under simulated service…
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Dumping of mixed stock from Banbury Mixer
- Circa 1949
View of a worker dumping mixed rubber stock from the Banbury Mixer at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mixer was used to break down and mix rubber…
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Dumbell part of Pauling Oxygen Meter
- 1940s
This glass dumbbell was key to the functioning of the Pauling Oxygen Meter, although production was tricky and originally required a human glass blower to shape the hollow ends of the tiny dumbbell with puffs of breath.…
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Dramatizing Dinner
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet discusses how an attractively decorated dining room not only aids in digestion but also…
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Draft of a telegram from Max Bredig
- 1940s
Draft of a telegram from Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977) requesting “SOLIS”, also known as Wilhelm (Bill) Werner Fuchs to contact his sister, Marianne Homburger (1903-1986), and her family. Marianne, her husband Viktor…
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Draft of a telegram from Max Bredig
- 1940s
Draft text intended for a telegram from Max Bredig (1902-1977) to the American Consul of Madrid, Spain concerning the visa of Fritz Hochwald (1897-1968).
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Draft of a letter by Max Bredig
- 1940s
Max Bredig (1902-1977) drafts a letter to an unknown recipient asking for a donation of $600 to help "rescue a human being from almost certain death."
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Douglas A-20 attack bomber at Rohm and Haas facility
- 1940s
General view of two unidentified employees working on the nose of a Douglas A-20 attack bomber aircraft prior to the installation Plexiglas windshield panels. This photograph was likely taken at the Rohm and Haas…
- Creator Of Work Douglas Aircraft Company, Rohm and Haas Company
- Photographer Kronquist, Lawrence
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Aircraft industry, Rohm and Haas Company, Airplanes, Corporations, Plexiglas, Douglas Aircraft Company, Airplanes, Military
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Don't Take Chances
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet begins by raising awareness of the countless annual motor and domestic accident fatalities.…
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Designed Right...It Sells on Sight!
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Color print advertisement for cellulosic plastics made with plastic molding compounds manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement features a photograph of a young boy using a plastic crossbow toy…
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Demonstration of a Beckman Model B Spectrophotometer
- 1940s
An unidentified man with a tattoo on his forearm has removed the case of a Model B DU Spectrophotometer in order to demonstrate its functions to three other (also unidentified) men.
The first Beckman Instruments DU…
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Delta Cotton Growers: This is the Time to Consider Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Clarksdale Delta Farm News and Memphis Commercial…
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Delta Cotton Growers: For Aerial Dusting Use Toxaphene
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Clarksdale Delta Farm News and Memphis Commercial…
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Dagwood Splits the Atom
- 1949
An introduction to radioactivity, explaining atomic structure and how to create a chain reaction, this comic was distributed for free to middle and high school students and was also included as a "freebee" in Gilbert’s…
- Author Musial, Joseph W., 1905-
- Artist Musial, Joseph W., 1905-
- Publisher King Features Syndicate
- Contributor Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970, Dunning, John R. (John Ray), 1907-1975, Heil, Louis Mace, 1903-
- Subject Atoms, Atoms--Study and teaching, Nuclear energy, Nuclear energy--Study and teaching, Comic books, strips, etc., Comics (Graphic works), Educational comics, Children's literature
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Cutting operation for cross blending of ingredients
- Circa 1949
View of a worker cutting rubber stock from the mixing mill at the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. At the laboratory, the mill was used to mix rubber stocks or warm mixed…
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Creative Chemistry Helps the South Serve Industry
- Part of 1949 Hercules Advertisements
- 1949
Advertisement for various pine-based naval stores products manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company, including Toxaphene insecticides, wood turpentine, and synthetic resins. This advertisement appeared in Na…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Turpentine, Hercules Incorporated, Terpenes, Corporations, Naval stores, Gums and resins, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Courting Coolness
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet provides tips for keeping a house cool during the summer such as sprinkling water on…
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Come into the Garden Room
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet discusses creating a garden room or sunroom for one's home. Describes possible color…
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Color Scheming
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet provides tips for homeowners determining a fresh color scheme for their home exterior.…
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Color Schemes for the Low Cost House
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet discusses several tactics for remodeling a home on a budget including painting walls for…
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Color Schemes From Flowers
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet describes how to take inspiration from nature to determine color scheme and decorations…
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Color Plays Tricks
- 1940s
Booklet corresponding to a radio broadcast program created by the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association. The booklet describes how colors may be emotional or physical stimuli. The booklet lists emotions…
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Colloid Mill
- Circa 1949
Charlotte experimental colloid mill used in the Naval Air Experimental Station's Latex and Chemical Laboratory for the preparation of finely divided dispersions and emulsions. This photograph was included in a 1949…
- Creator Of Work Naval Air Experimental Station, United States. Navy
- Subject Colloids, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Closing operation on hydraulic press
- Circa 1949
View of a worker closing the hydraulic press in the Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory at the Naval Air Experimental Station. This unit is a 200-ton capacity Williams-White Moline machine equipped with three…