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Neil Grover servicing alphabetic tabulator at Dow Tabulating Department
- 1947-Dec-16
Close-up view of IBM Corporation customer engineer Neil Grover servicing the electrical relays on an alphabetic tabulator in the Tabulating Department at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan.…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation, Grover, Neil
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Machine tabulating room at Dow Chemical Company
- 1947-Dec-16
General view of unidentified employees at work in the machine tabulating room at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Per an article in the December 16, 1947 edition of The Brine Well, the…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation
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Machine Room in Dow Tabulating Department
- 1947-Dec-16
General view of the Machine Room in the Tabulating Department at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Several employees and machines, including tabulator, sorter, and interpreter units, are…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation
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Key punch operators at Dow Tabulating Department
- 1947-Dec-16
General view of key punch operators (front to back) Ilene Allen, Janet Dyer, Jesse Haven, Marion McFadden, and Margaret Preznowiak transcribing written data into tabulating cards in the Tabulating Department at the Dow…
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Chemical show in New York City (1947)
- 1947-Dec-01 – 1947-Dec-06
General view of the Hercules Powder Company display at a 1947 chemical industries trade show held in New York City.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later…
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Let's Make It for Keeps
- 1947-Nov
Color print magazine advertisement for Community silverware. This ad appeared in the Ladies' Home Journal, November 1947.
- Artist Whitcomb, Jon, 1906-1988
- Subject Silver-plated ware, Silverware, Electroplating, Oneida, ltd.
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Instructions, Beckman Infrared Spectrophotometer, Model IR-2
- Bulletin 153-B
- 1947-Nov
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Spectrophotometer, Infrared spectroscopy, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Letter from Edwin W. Taylor to Arnold O. Beckman
- 1947-Aug-15
This letter includes a report on existing Beckman trademarks as of 1947, including information on the "acidimeter" and the point at which that instrument became known as the pH meter (1935).
- Addressee Beckman, Arnold O.
- Author Taylor, Edwin W.
- Subject Hydrogen-ion concentration--Measurement--Instruments, Patents, Trademarks, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Freed from FLIES Stock THRIVES
- Most pests surrender to Dow DDT
- 1947-Jun
Color print advertisement for DDT manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for pest control around barns and stables, as well as direct application to livestock. The advertisement features an illustration of a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Insecticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insect pests--Control, Livestock, Advertising, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical industry, Corporations
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DDT is good for me-e-e!
- 1947-Jun-30
Color print magazine advertisement for Pennsalt DDT products. This ad appeared in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947.
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Letter from Fritz Hochwald to Max Bredig, June 18, 1947
- 1947-Jun-18
Fritz Hochwald (1897-1969) thanks Max Bredig (1902-1977) for writing a letter to the Naturalization Office.
- Addressee Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Author Hochwald, Fritz G., 1897-1968
- Subject Hochwald, Fritz G., 1897-1968, Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
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Press Release on Community-School Program for International Understanding and for World Famine Relief
- Circa 1947-May
Press release describing a community-school program called Voices of Freedom. The event consists of two main events - a forum called One World: Which Way?, and a concert, Music in One World. The program was sponsored by…
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Advertisement for Dow weed killer
- 1947-May
Print advertisement for weed killers and other agricultural chemicals manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of a Tom Sawyer-esque boy walking down a dirt road with…
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48 items
Illustrated Catalog - Pasteur Exhibition
- 1947-Apr-09 – 1947-May-26
Illustrated catalog for a Pasteur Exhibition at the Science Museum in South Kensington, England, April 9th through May 26th, 1947. Exhibition originally shown in Paris, France, with added contributions from the Wellcome…
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Beginning with Bromine...
- 1947-May-24
Color print advertisement marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated aerial view of Dow's home office plant in Midland, Michigan, as well as the front and…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Advertising, Advertising, Industrial, Anniversaries
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Association of New York Scientists Newsletter, May 20, 1947
- 1947-May-20
- Creator Of Work Association of New York Scientists
- Subject Association of New York Scientists, Newsletters
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Cleveland Coal Show (1947)
- 1947-May-12 – 1947-May-15
General view of the Hercules Powder Company display at the 1947 Cleveland Coal Show held at the Cleveland Public Auditorium.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Manufacturer Miller-Ertler Studios
- Subject Hercules Incorporated, Trade shows, Corporations, Chemical industry, Explosives, Explosives industry, Advertising, Advertising, Industrial
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Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists (AORES) meeting minutes, May 15, 1947
- 1947-May-15
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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Throughout American Life
- 1947-May-03
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 a photograph…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics, Children in advertising
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When's the Best Time to Kill Weeds?
- Advertisement for Dow weed killer
- 1947-Apr
Print advertisement for weed killers and other agricultural chemicals manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of a farmer using a field sprayer to distribute…
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Two-gear melt-pool booster pump
- 1947-Apr
General view of the component parts of a two-gear melt-pool booster pump used during the early stages of synthetic fiber production and research at DuPont. Typically, such booster pumps were used to feed a bubble-free…
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Monomer still used in production of nylon
- 1947-Apr
General view of a monomer still used during the early stages of nylon production and research at DuPont. The photograph is labeled "Figure 2," indicating that it appeared in a report or publication.
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