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20M 54S
Pick of the Pod
- 1939
Pick of the Pod is about pea farming and the vegetable canning process, specifically promoting the Del Monte brand of the California Packing Corporation. This version is taken from a DVD copy and not from the original…
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Alaska's Silver Millions
- 1936
Alaska's Silver Millions is about the many natural resources in Alaska, but focuses on the salmon fishing and canning industry. Narrated by Father Bernard R. Hubbard, "The Glacier Priest." This version is taken from a…
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Memo from J. Robert Oppenheimer to all members of the Los Alamos Laboratory, 1945
- 1945-Aug-08
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) passes along a message from Robert P. Patterson (1891-1952) to the staff of the Los Alamos Laboratory. The message congratulates the team for their work on the Manhattan Project in the…
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President Announces: Pacific War Ends; [Japanese] Accept Allied Terms
- 1945-Aug-14
Front page of The Knoxville News - Sentinel with the headline "President Announces: Pacific War Ends; Japs Accept Allied Terms. MacArthur is Top Commander". Published on August 14, 1945 the newspaper has announces that…
- Publisher The Knoxville News Sentinel
- Subject World War (1939-1945), Japan, Racism, Racism in mass media
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A-Bomb Staggers [Japanese]
- 1945-Aug-07
Front page of The Knoxville News - Sentinel with the headline "A-Bomb Staggers Nips". Published on August 7, 1945 the newspaper has articles relating to Oak Ridge and the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. Notably,…
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Terror Bomb Hits Nagasaki
- 1945-Aug-09
Front page of The Knoxville Journal with the headline "Terror Bomb Hits Nagasaki". Published on August 9, 1945 the newspaper has articles relating to the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan and Soviets…
- Publisher The Knoxville Journal
- Subject China--Manchuria, Atomic bomb, Japan, World War (1939-1945), Nuclear weapons, Racism, Racism in mass media
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Atom Bomb Falls Again Millions Soviets Attack [Japanese]
- 1945-Aug-09
Front page of The Knoxville News - Sentinel with the headline "Atom Bomb Falls Again Million Soviets Attack Japs". Published on August 9, 1945 the newspaper has articles relating to the dropping of the second atomic…
- Publisher The Knoxville News-Sentinel
- Subject Japan--Nagasaki-shi, Atomic bomb, World War (1939-1945), Racism, Racism in mass media, Soviet Union
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Atomic Bomb Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT Dropped on Japanese Port
- 1945-Aug-06
Front page of the Chattanooga News - Free Press with the headline "Atomic Bomb Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT Dropped on Japanese Port". Published on August 6, 1945 the newspaper has multiple articles relating to the…
- Publisher Chattanooga News - Free Press
- Subject World War (1939-1945), Atomic bomb, Racism in mass media, Racism, Nuclear weapons, Japan
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The Los Alamos News Letter, October 25, 1945
- 1945-Oct-25
1945 Introductory issue of the Los Alamos News Letter. The publication provides an overview of the organization, committees and membership.
- Creator Of Work Association of Los Alamos Scientists
- Subject Association of Los Alamos Scientists, Newsletters, Nuclear energy
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J. Robert Oppenheimer's acceptance speech for scroll presented to the Los Alamos Laboratory
- 1945-Oct-16
Transcription of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's (1904-1967) acceptance speech for a scroll presented to the Los Alamos Laboratory by Major General Leslie R. Groves (1896-1970). The Los Alamos Laboratory was given the…
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War Department press release
- 1945
Press release created by the United States War Department providing background information on Los Alamos, New Mexico, the site for the Los Alamos Laboratory. The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is best known as the…
- Creator Of Work United States. War Department
- Subject United States. War Department, New Mexico--Los Alamos, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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Food Infections and Food Intoxications
- 1928
An overview of the etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prophylaxis of food poisoning. Content is divided into three sections: infections from food, intoxication from food, and zoo-parasitic infections acquired…
- Author Damon, Samuel Reed
- Publisher Williams & Wilkins
- Printer Waverly Press
- Subject Food poisoning, Medical parasitology, Diseases--Causes and theories of causation, Intoxication, Food science
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3M 05S
Hercules Powder Company Wilmington, Delaware headquarters construction
- 1930
This silent film captures the 1930 construction of Hercules Powder Company's new Headquarters and Research Station in Wilmington, Delaware and specifically its cornerstone laying ceremony. This new site was constructed…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Powder Company
- Subject Hercules Powder Company, Building, Chemical industry
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3M 51S
Hercules Powder Company tree stump handling in Brunswick, Georgia
- 1920 – 1940
Silent footage of Hercules Powder Company processing tree stumps at their Brunswick, Georgia plant for use in their cellulose products. Footage shows stumps being removed from railroad cars by crane and dropped into…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Powder Company
- Subject Cellulose industry, Hercules Powder Company, Chemical industry, Naval stores industry, Cranes, derricks, etc., Machinery
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18M 23S
Hercules Powder Company Woods Camp pine stump gathering
- 1920 – 1940
Silent footage of tree stump removal being done by Hercules Powder Company at an unknown location, likely in the southeastern United States. These stumps were removed using machinery and then transferred to a Hercules…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Powder Company
- Subject Hercules Powder Company, Cellulose industry, Tree stump removal, Machinery
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172 items
The Theory and Technique of Quantitative Analysis
- 1928
A textbook of analytical chemistry for undergraduate students. Content emphasizes the technique and theory of analytical labwork, stating in the forward "The true analyst must analyze his method before he can analyze…
- Author Farnsworth, Marie
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons
- Subject Analytical chemistry, Analytical chemistry--Quantitative, Women in chemistry, Women in science, Farnsworth, Marie
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230 items
Practical Automotive Lacquering
- 1928
Volume II of the Practical Finishing Series. This work "contains all the latest information on the mechanical part of the finishing process, while Volume I, Practical Color Simplified, places in the hands of the user...…
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The Chemistry of Crude Drugs : An Elementary Textbook for Students of Pharmacognosy
- 1928
A textbook intended to provide an overview of crude drugs for pharmaceutical students. Crude drugs are naturally occurring, unrefined substances used in medicine. The chapters of this work are organized by chemical and…
- Author Driver, John Edmund, 1900-
- Publisher Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Contributor Trease, George Edward, 1902-
- Subject Drugs, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Pharmacology, Textbooks, Pharmacognosy
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154 items
The Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration
- 1928
Number 50 in a series of service monographs analyzing the various functions of the United States Government. The series was published by the Brookings Institute for Government Research, an "association of citizens…
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158 items
Copra and Coconut Oil
- 1928
The second of five publications from a research study on fats and oils conducted by the Food Research Institute of the University of Stanford. This work focuses on the economics of coconut oil and its rapid growth in…
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104 items
A Tale of Soap and Water
- 1928
A history of bathing and personal hygiene from the prehistoric age to present day. The author describes the religious and cultural significance of bathing around the world and describes methods of bathing used by…
- Author Hallock, Grace T. (Grace Taber), 1893-
- Publisher Cleanliness Institute
- Subject Hygiene, Bathing customs in literature, Baths, Soap
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A Quantitative Study of the Influence of Acetate and Phosphate on the Enzymic Activity of the Amylase of Aspergillus Oryzae
- 1928
Thesis by Marguerite Griffith Tyler (1881-1969) written in partial fulfillment of her doctoral degree in chemistry from Columbia University. Tyler earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan (1903) and…
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Alcohol Through the Ages
- 1928
A collection of advertisements for the Kentucky Alcohol Corporation. Each advertisement describes a point in history related to insdustrial alcohol and distillation. Together, the collection paints a picture of…
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189 items
Kingsport: A Romance of Industry
- 1928
A history of the development of Kingsport, Tennessee, a township home to fifteen major industrial corporations at the time of this work's publication. The work is split into three parts: Historical Background, the…
- Author Long, Howard
- Publisher Sevier Press
- Subject Chemical industry, Tennessee--Kingsport, Corporations, Commerce, Industries
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144 items
Chemical Laboratory Manual, prepared to accompany Bogert's "Fundamentals of Chemistry"
- 1927
Workbook corresponding to the textbook Fundamentals of Chemistry, a Textbook for Nurses and Other Students of Applied Chemistry, by Dr. L. Jean Bogert (1888-1970), a textbook for first and second-year undergraduate…