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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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
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12 items
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
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15 items
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…
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Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Mexico
- 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.
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Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Scandinavia
- 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.
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Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – South Africa
- 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.
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Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Netherlands
- 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.
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Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Scotland
- 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.
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Beckman Instruments 50th Anniversary – Germany
- 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.
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Beckman Instruments (Japan) Limited - 50th anniversary album
- 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.
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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),…
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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,…
