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This digital collection features a broad spectrum of materials related to the production, packaging, and marketing of food, including advertisements, printed ephemera, recipe books, and photographs. Subjects represented in the collection include food additives and adulteration, flavoring essences, and safety standards, as well as food-adjacent topics such as sugar, monosodium glutamate (MSG), and margarine.

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  • Advertising35
  • Employees26
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments25
  • Corporations22
  • Food industry and trade22
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  • Dow Chemical Company19
  • United States. Food and Drug Administration12
  • Liebig's Extract of Meat Company9
  • Perkin-Elmer Corporation8
  • S. Suzuki & Co., Ltd.6
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  • Photographs44
  • Advertisements36
  • Publications28
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  • Image109
  • Text78
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  • Advertisements

    Dow Science. Creating the Brightest Ideas in Household Products Since 1953.

    • 1997-May-18

    Color print newspaper advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company is a photograph of various products DowBrands produces including Scrubbing Bubbles Bathroom Cleaner, Saran Wrap, Glass Plus, fantastik, heavy duty oven…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Dow Chemical Company, Food--Preservation, Cleaning compounds
  • Photograph of Konrad Bloch
    12 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Konrad E. Bloch

    • 1993-Mar-22

    The interview begins with Konrad E. Bloch describing his childhood in Neisse, Germany, and his undergraduate education at Technische Hochschule in Munich. During a research assistantship in Davos, Switzerland, Bloch had…

    • Interviewee Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-
    • Interviewer Bohning, James J.
    • Subject University of Oxford, Biosynthesis, Biochemists, Human Genome Project, Cholesterol, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Organic, Harvard University, Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-, Columbia University, Nobel Prize winners, Cholesterol--Synthesis, Nutrition, Emigration and immigration
  • 15 items
    Photographs

    Arnold Beckman with others

    • Undated
    • 1953
    • 1955-Sep-15
    • 1957-Oct-11
    • 1961-Jan
    • 1982
    • 1987-Mar-23

    The photographs depict Arnold Beckman at a variety of meetings and events. Identified individuals include Arnold Beckman, P. Dodds, V. Rossetti, Robert T. Sheen, W. G. Brombacher, Taylor Fletcher, Jack Bishop, William…

    • Photographer Fontayne Studios, Frey Photos, Isaacs, Robert A., Wallace, Maurice R., Rothschild Photo
    • Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Ballhaus, William F., 1918-, Dinners and dining, Executives, Hewlett, William R., Award presentations, Portraits, Group, Meetings
  • 4 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Mexico

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985

    Pictured individuals are Yolanda Macia (secretary to the general manager), Ignacio Higarda (commercial director) and Jesus Bohorquez (service engineer).

    • Subject Anniversaries, Employees, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 3 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Japan

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985
    • Subject Anniversaries, Beckman, Arnold O., Cake, Executives, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Canada

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985
    • Subject Anniversaries, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 3 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Scandinavia

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985

    Pictured individuals are Lars-Gunnar Sellman (product specialist), Tommy Lindgren (general manager), Bernt Granath (service engineer), and Ingalill Hansson (account assistant).

    • Subject Anniversaries, Employees, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 3 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – South Africa

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985

    Identified individuals are (left to right in the photograph of four people) Tommy Williams (stores supervisor), Arthur Swartz (managing director), Dick Loubser (service manager), and April Dingane (office messenger).

    • Subject Anniversaries, Employees, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Australia

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985
    • Subject Anniversaries, Cake, Australia, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Netherlands

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985

    Pictured individuals are Ingrid van der Meer (secretary), Frits van Marle (stockroom man), and Rob Duetz (workshop engineer).

    • Subject Anniversaries, Employees, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Scotland

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985

    Pictured individuals are Jim Hain (development engineer), Neil Sutherland (quality control technician), Maurice Cheeseman (EAMO director), and Alan Crose (fabrication manager).

    • Subject Anniversaries, Employees, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 3 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Germany

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985

    The pictured employees are Klaus Feike (sales engineer), Volker Bock (product line specialist), Gertrude Heindl (secretary), and Lorenz Baumgartner (shipping supervisor).

    • Subject Anniversaries, Employees, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Brea, California

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985
    • Subject Anniversaries, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • Photographs

    Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Austria

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th anniversary celebrations
    • 1985
    • Subject Anniversaries, Cake, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 10 items
    Photographs

    Beckman Instruments (Japan) Limited - 50th anniversary album

    • Part of Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Japan
    • 1985-Apr

    The photo album documents 50th anniversary celebrations at the Japanese subsidiary of Beckman Instruments, established in Tokyo in 1977. A number of pictured individuals are identified. Unused pages of the album have…

    • Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
    • Subject Anniversaries, Employees, Cake, Executives, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • 3 items
    Photographs

    Coulter Corporation 25th Anniversary

    • 1983

    The photographs show Wallace Coulter cutting a boat-shaped cake at a celebration of Coulter Corporation's anniversary.

    Wallace and Joseph Coulter founded the Coulter Corporation to market Coulter Counters, instruments…

    • Subject Anniversaries, Cameras, Cake, Executives
  • Photographs

    Peanut oil testing using Perkin-Elmer infrared spectrophotometer

    • 1970s

    General view of Dr. Giovanni Bigalli posed with a Perkin-Elmer Grating Infrared Spectrophotometer at an unidentified laboratory facility. Per notations accompanying the photograph, this spectrophotometer is being used…

    • Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    • Subject Employees, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hershey Company, Spectrophotometer, Infrared spectroscopy, Corporations, Food--Analysis, Laboratories
  • Photographs

    Perkin-Elmer instruments in use at Hershey Company facility

    • 1970s

    General view of laboratory technician Margaret Kreiser using assorted Perkin-Elmer atomic absorption instruments at a Hershey Company facility to determine the metal constituents of finished food items and raw…

    • Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    • Subject Women in science, Chocolate industry, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Food--Analysis, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hershey Company, Corporations, Women employees, Chocolate, Employees, Laboratories
  • Photographs

    Perkin-Elmer atomic absorption spectrophotometer in use at Hershey Company facility

    • 1970s

    General view of laboratory technician Margaret Kreiser using the heated graphite atomizer (HGA) attachment of a Perkin-Elmer Model 403 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer to test a chocolate sample for volatile elements…

    • Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    • Subject Women in science, Chocolate industry, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Employees, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hershey Company, Corporations, Women employees, Chocolate, Atomizers, Food--Analysis, Laboratories
  • Photographs

    Perkin-Elmer atomic absorption spectrophotometer in use at Kellogg's laboratory

    • 1970s

    General view of chemist Harvey Beatty operating a Perkin-Elmer Model 503 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer at the Kellogg Company Quality Assurance laboratory located in Battle Creek, Michigan. Per notations…

    • Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    • Subject Kellogg Company, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Employees, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Chemists, Corporations, Food industry and trade, Food--Testing, Laboratories
  • Photographs

    Perkin-Elmer atomic absorption spectrophotometer in use at Kellogg's laboratory

    • 1970s

    Close-up view of a Perkin-Elmer Model 503 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer in use at the Kellogg Company Quality Assurance laboratory located in Battle Creek, Michigan. At the laboratory, atomic absorption…

    • Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    • Subject Kellogg Company, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Corporations, Food industry and trade, Food--Testing, Laboratories
  • 11 items
    Photographs

    Arnold O. Beckman with employees

    • Circa 1940 – circa 1979

    Though the photo set is identified as Beckman with "employees," some of the photographs depict ceremonies and visits to non-corporate locations, like CalTech. Some photographs are attributed, dated (1941, 1962, 1967),…

    • Photographer Romaine-Skelton, McClanahan, James, Illig, Russell
    • Subject Employees, Beckman, Arnold O., Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dinners and dining, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
  • Photographs

    Perkin-Elmer instruments in use at Kellogg Company laboratory

    • 1970s

    General view of an unidentified employee operating a Perkin-Elmer Model 5000 Inductively Coupled Plasma atomic emission analyzer at the Kellogg Company Corporate Quality Sciences laboratory located in Battle Creek,…

    • Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    • Subject Food--Testing, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Employees, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Corporations, Food industry and trade, Kellogg Company
  • Photographs

    Chocolate sample testing at Hershey Company facility

    • 1970s

    General view of laboratory technician Margaret Kreiser grating a sample of chocolate prior to testing at a Hershey Company facility. Per notations accompanying the photograph, testing included an analysis of the…

    • Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    • Subject Women in science, Chocolate industry, Food--Analysis, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hershey Company, Corporations, Women employees, Chocolate, Employees, Laboratories
  • Photographs

    Perkin-Elmer atomic absorption spectrophotometer in use at Kellogg's laboratory

    • Circa 1975-Apr-21

    General view of an unidentified employee prepping a Perkin-Elmer Model 503 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer to analyze a food sample in the Kellogg Company Quality Assurance laboratory located in Battle Creek,…

    • Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
    • Subject Kellogg Company, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Employees, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Corporations, Food industry and trade, Food--Testing, Laboratories
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