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Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- After 1934 – before 1970
General view of a section of the exterior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…
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Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company
- 1936 – 1937
Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company plants and facilities located in Midland, Michigan. This photograph was taken by H. H. Harris, President of the General Alloys Company of Boston and amateur photographer who…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Harris, H.H.
- Subject Aerial views, Dow Chemical Company, Aerial photographs
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Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company
- 1936 – 1937
Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company plants and facilities located in Midland, Michigan. This photograph was taken by H. H. Harris, President of the General Alloys Company of Boston and amateur photographer who…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Harris, H.H.
- Subject Aerial views, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Aerial photographs
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Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company
- 1936 – 1937
Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company plants and facilities located in Midland, Michigan. This photograph was taken by H. H. Harris, President of the General Alloys Company of Boston and amateur photographer who…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Harris, H.H.
- Subject Aerial views, Dow Chemical Company, Aerial photographs
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Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company
- 1936 – 1937
Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company plants and facilities located in Midland, Michigan. This photograph was taken by H. H. Harris, President of the General Alloys Company of Boston and amateur photographer who…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Harris, H.H.
- Subject Aerial views, Dow Chemical Company, Aerial photographs
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Sawmill at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1938
General view of the interior of the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan, with view of various employees and machinery. The employees pictured in the photograph are…
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Aerial view of Dow plant in Pittsburg, California
- 1940s
Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Pittsburg, California. A range of products and processes were researched, developed, and produced at the plant, including chlorination, textiles, fumigants, and…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Sunderland, Clyde
- Subject Aerial views, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Aerial photographs
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Brine well at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1940s
General view of a brine well at the Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland, Michigan. Also known as salt wells, brine wells are used to extract salt from subterranean caverns or deposits for use in a variety of…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Salt, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Salt mines and mining
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Lime sulfur manufacturing facility
- 1940s
General view of raw material and manufacturing facilities used for the production of lime sulfur at an unidentified Dow Chemical Company plant. Beginning in 1907, Herbert Dow marketed lime sulfur, also known as calcium…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Sulfur, Calcium sulfide, Fungicides
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Bernie Thiegs preparing insecticide at Dow agricultural laboratory
- 1941-Aug
General view of chemist Bernie Thiegs preparing an insecticide intended to combat potato beetles at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory facilities. Per an article in the…
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Employees at work in Dow Agricultural Chemical Research Laboratory
- 1941-Aug
General view of two employees at work in a Dow Chemical Company Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory facility. Per an article in the August 1941 edition of the Dow Diamond, the department was…
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Greenhouse at Dow Agricultural Chemical Research Laboratory
- 1941-Aug
General view of the central corridor of a greenhouse associated with the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory. Per an article in the August 1941 edition of the Dow Diamond, …
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Agricultural chemicals, Employees, Chemical industry, Plants, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Greenhouses, Agricultural chemistry
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Dow Chemical Company Styron manufacturing facilities
- 1942
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Styron manufacturing facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. Styron is the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Cliffs Dow Chemical Company executives
- 1943-Sep-23
Group photograph of executives of the Cliffs Dow Chemical Company, a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company located in Marquette, Michigan. Several of the individuals are dressed in mining gear and the group is posed…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Manufacturer Seemann & Peters Inc.
- Subject Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Mines and mineral resources
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Chemical analysis at Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1944
General view of laboratory technicians analyzing assorted materials in a Dow Chemical Company laboratory. Per notations accompanying the photograph, Bill Herrick (left) is analyzing calcium chloride, which was used for…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Glassware, Laboratories
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James Geary using colorimeter in Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1944
General view of technician James Geary using a Klett-Summerson Photoelectric Colorimeter to obtain a determination of iodine at a Dow Chemical Company laboratory. Designed in the 1930's by two Cornell University Medical…
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Leo Ruhnau conducting acid analysis in Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1944
General view of technician Leo Ruhnau using an apparatus to determine the percentage of hydrochloric acid in Dowell acids at a Dow Chemical Company laboratory.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Glassware, Laboratories, Ruhnau, Leo
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Marguerite Tenhunen and Dorothy Ferris testing experimental alloys in Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1944
General view of technicians Marguerite Tenhunen (left) and Dorothy Ferris (right) using assorted apparatus in a Dow Chemical Company laboratory to determine the quantity of zinc present in experimental alloys.
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Saran film production at Dow Chemical Company
- 1944
General view of an unidentified female employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. The employee appears to be using a type of press to smooth lengths of saran…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Women employees
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Technicians titrating aluminum in Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1944
General view of technicians (left to right) Lois Nystrom, Rosemary Kirchman, and Helen Lyness using vacuum tube titrators to titrate aluminum in a Dow Chemical Company laboratory. In the titration process, a solution of…
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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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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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Employee inspecting Saran Wrap at Dow facility
- 1946
General view of an unidentified employee inspecting a piece of Saran Wrap at a Dow Chemical Company facility. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II, saran…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, Consumer goods, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade
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Model sitting on Styron packaging
- 1946
General view of a female model sitting on plastic packaging made from Dow Styron to demonstrate the packaging's durability. Styron is the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically manufactured and sold by the Dow…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Plastics in packaging, Women in advertising, Advertising, Plastics industry and trade, Packaging, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations
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Bill Shetzley at work in Dow Photographic Laboratory
- 1947-Jan-13
General view of photographer and lab director Bill Shetzley positioning a camera for a photo shoot in the Dow Chemical Company's Photographic Laboratory. Established in the 1930's, the Photo Lab took pictures for…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Cameras, Photography, Dow Chemical Company, Photographers, Photography--Equipment and supplies, Shetzley, Bill