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Man transporting log of Styrofoam
- 1949
General view of an unidentified worker transporting a log of Styrofoam at a Dow Chemical Company facility. A sign for Building 2-432 is visible in the background.
Invented in 1941 by researchers in Dow's Chemical…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Foam
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Model lifting Styrofoam log
- 1949
View of a female model lifting a log of Dow Chemical Company Styrofoam over her head to demonstrate the product's buoyant and lightweight properties. Several stacks of Styrofoam logs are visible in the background.
…- Contributor Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Women in advertising, Foam, Advertising, Polystyrene
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Plastic wares sales display featuring Dow Styron
- 1949
General view of a sales display for a range of plastic household items made from Dow Styron, the trade name for Styrenic plastics manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for a variety of consumer applications.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Dow Chemical Company, Consumer goods, Corporations, Advertising, Plastics industry and trade
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Sawmill at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee loading logs into a machine in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic,…
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Sawmill at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
Elevated view of the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan taken from the perspective of the vertical retort, with view of wood storage in background. Seeking a source of raw…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Wood distillation, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery
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Two models standing on plank of Styrofoam
- 1949
View of two female models standing on a plank of Dow Chemical Company Styrofoam to demonstrate the product's sturdiness and durability. Several boxes of Styrofoam products are visible in the background.
Invented in…
- Contributor Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Women in advertising, Foam, Advertising, Polystyrene, Women employees
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Vertical retort and wood loading conveyor
- 1949
Two views of the vertical retort and wood loading conveyor at the Cliffs Dow wood sawmill and distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the…
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Vertical retort and wood loading conveyor
- 1949
General view of the vertical retort and wood loading conveyor at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Providing a sense of scale, two unidentified employees are visible in…
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Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of a section of the wood storage at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. The employee visible in the photograph is unidentified.
Seeking a source of raw…
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Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee standing on top of a pile of logs at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. An Insley Excavator is visible on the left-hand side of…
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Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
General view of an unidentified employee standing on top of a pile of logs at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. An Insley Excavator is visible on the right-hand side of…
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Employee filing band saw at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949-Jun
General view of an unidentified employee filing a band saw in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose,…
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Aspirin production at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1950s
Overhead view of an unidentified employee filling storage containers during the production of aspirin at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Industries, Aspirin industry, Dow Chemical Company, Aspirin
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Caustic pot house at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1950s
General view of the interior of the pot house used for the production of caustic soda at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. Also known as sodium hydroxide, caustic soda was commonly used to…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Sodium hydroxide, Industries, Ethylcellulose, Dow Chemical Company
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Caustic soda evaporators at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1950s
General view of the caustic soda evaporators at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Freeport, Texas. Also known as sodium hydroxide, caustic soda was commonly used to produce ethyl cellulose per the process…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Sodium hydroxide, Industries, Ethylcellulose, Dow Chemical Company
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Clyde Moe operating RCA Model EMU electron microscope in Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1950s
General view of Clyde Moe operating a RCA Model EMU electron microscope in the Dow Chemical Company's Metallurgical Laboratory. Electron microscopes use a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination and…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Laboratories, Microscopy, Microscopes, Dow Chemical Company, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Radio Corporation of America, Moe, Clyde
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Delores Horne analyzing weed killer in Dow Analytical Laboratory
- 1950s
General view of chemist Delores Horne analyzing the active constituent of a weed killer in the Dow Chemical Company's Analytical Laboratory located in Midland, Michigan. Per a notation accompanying the photograph, Ms.…
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Dow Chemical Company Chlorobenzene Plant
- 1950s
General view of a section of the Dow Chemical Company's Chlorobenzene Plant located in Midland, Michigan. Chlorobenzene is commonly used to produce pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, plastics, glazing materials,…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Chlorobenzene, Industries, Dow Chemical Company
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Dow Chemical Company Demineralization plant
- 1950s
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's Demineralization plant located in Midland, Michigan. In industrial applications, demineralization commonly refers to the process of removing…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company
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Dow Chemical Company Glycol plant
- 1950s
General view of the interior of a section of the Dow Chemical Company Glycol plant located in Midland, Michigan.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Industries, Glycols, Dow Chemical Company, Machinery
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Dow Chemical Company Latex plant
- 1950s
Exterior view of a section of the Dow Chemical Company's Latex plant located in Midland, Michigan. In concert with Dow facilities in Freeport, Texas, the Midland plant produced a range of latex coatings materials for…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Shetzley, Bill
- Subject Chemical industry, Industries, Latex, Dow Chemical Company
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Dow Chemical Company Styrene plant
- 1950s
General view of the exterior of a section of the Dow Chemical Company's Styrene plant located in Freeport, Texas. An organic compound derived from benzene, styrene is a precursor to polystyrene and was popularized in…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Styrene industry, Monomers, Styrene
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Dow Chemical Company Styron manufacturing facilities
- 1950s
General view of unidentified employees at work in the Styron manufacturing facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. A Styron belt (also known as a ribbon) is visible being extruded from…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Dow Chemical Company facility
- 1950s
General view of an employee at work in an unidentified Dow Chemical Company facility, possibly the Automotive Research Laboratory. A series of storage tanks with connecting electrical wires and rubber tubes are visible…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Industries, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Dow Chemical Company lead arsenate plant
- 1950s
Interior view of the Dow Chemical Company's lead arsenate plant with partial view of industrial machinery and barrels used for storage and transport. An inorganic pesticide, lead arsenate was first used to combat gypsy…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Factories, Pesticides industry, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Pesticides, Lead arsenate