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Control panel at the Althouse Chemical Company plant
- 1946
View of a control panel used to regulate the air pressure in the blow cases at the Althouse Chemical Company manufacturing plant in Reading, Pennsylvania. Housed in the Press Room, blow cases were used for blowing dye…
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Constitution of the Association of New York Scientists
- Circa 1946
- Creator Of Work Association of New York Scientists
- Subject Constitutions, Association of New York Scientists
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Child posed with block of Styrofoam
- 1946
General view of a young boy posed holding a block of Styrofoam over his head to demonstrate the product's buoyant and lightweight properties.
Invented in 1941 by researchers in Dow's Chemical Physics Lab, "Styrofoam"…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Foam, Children, Polystyrene
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Cellulosics... Low-Cost Solution to the Housing Problem...
- Part of 1946 Hercules Advertisements
- 1946
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified…
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Cellulosics, The Most Useful of All Plastics
- Part of 1946 Hercules Advertisements
- 1946
Colorful print spread advertising cellulosic plastic compounds manufactured and sold by Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement specifically features the compounds cellulose acetate, cellulose nitrate, and ethyl…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, DDT (Insecticide), Corporations, Naval stores, Thanite, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Beauty...is a Business
- Advertisement for Dow insecticides
- Circa 1946
Color print advertisement for insecticides and other agricultural chemicals manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of two men at work in a greenhouse, with…
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Beauty for All Time -- In Plastics...
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications. The advertisement features an…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Women in advertising
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Advertising still for saran plastic
- 1946
Advertising still featuring a female model seated in a lawn chair made from saran plastic. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II, saran plastic was…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, Consumer goods, Corporations, Advertising, Plastics industry and trade, Women in advertising
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Addition of chemical intermediate at Althouse Chemical Company plant
- 1946
View of Martin C. Eby, Plant Manager, at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania adding a chemical intermediate to a steel autoclave. At right, a barrel of intermediate sits on a portable scale.
…- Contributor Feeman, James
- Subject Dye industry, Employees, Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Equipment and supplies, Althouse Chemical Company
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A New Chapter in the Story of Textiles
- Advertisement for Dow Saran
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Saran plastic manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of applications, including textiles, packaging, plastic sheeting, and Saran Wrap. The advertisement features an…
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8 Hercules Toxicants for Sprays and Powders
- Part of 1946 Hercules Advertisements
- 1946
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, DDT (Insecticide), Corporations, Naval stores, Thanite, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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7 Hercules Toxicants for Sprays and Powders
- Part of 1946 Hercules Advertisements
- 1946
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, DDT (Insecticide), Corporations, Thanite, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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2,400,000 People Read About Thanite in July
- Part of 1946 Hercules Advertisements
- 1946
Three-page brochure advertising toxicants, including Thanite and Thanasol, manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in the manufacture of household insecticide sprays. Formed in 1912 as part of an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, DDT (Insecticide), Insect pests, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Corporations
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1946 Hercules Advertisements
- 1946
The extensive collection of Hercules advertising materials, covering the years 1913 through 1952, documents the company's growth as a major manufacturer of chemical products. A portion of the 1946 edition is digitized…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, DDT (Insecticide), Corporations, Naval stores, Thanite, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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"We Bought the Light Ones -- Didn't We Mother?"
- Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of a young girl and her mother, who is pruning a small tree with a…
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"Let's Take the One I Can Carry Upstairs!"
- Magnesium: Lightest of All Structural Metals
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement depicts a husband and wife shopping for vacuum cleaners, with the wife favoring the lighter…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Magnesium, Magnesium alloys, Magnesium industry and trade, Women in advertising
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"Just Feel How Light!"
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. Depicts a man and woman lifting a baby stroller to demonstrate how lightweight it is. The accompanying text…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical Industry, Magnesium alloys, Mineral industries
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"I'm Buying a Really Portable Sewing Machine!"
- Magnesium: Lightest of All Structural Metals
- 1946
Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company's Magnesium Division. The advertisement depicts a mother and daughter carrying a newly-purchased portable sewing machine made from Dowmetal, a product marketed for…
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"Get This Light One, Dad -- You Know...Less Push!"
- Advertisement for Dowmetal Magnesium
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of a young boy and his father shopping for manual lawn mowers.…
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"Ethyl" Changes a Tire for the Better...
- Part of 1946 Hercules Advertisements
- 1946
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified…
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Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists (AORES) meeting minutes, December 12, 1946
- 1946-Dec-12
Meeting minutes from the executive committee meeting of the Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists (AORES). AORES was formed in 1946 through a merger between the Atomic Engineers of Oak Ridge and Atomic…
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Letter from Buford Cater to Max Bredig, 1946
- 1946-Dec-04
Letter from Buford Carter, from Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists, to Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977). Carter thanks Bredig for sending his membership dues. Stapled to the letter was the check receipt.
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Two-position tire cord machine
- 1946-Nov-27
Two views of a two-position tire cord machine used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. The hot pin and hot plate tandem apparatus used to draw various fibers is visible in both…