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Medicine for the Millions!
- 1943
Color print advertisement for Dow Pharmaceuticals. The advertisement features a color illustration of an industrial plant, overlaid with illustrations of glass scientific instruments and beakers. Inside the instruments…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Drugs, Pharmaceutical industry, Medicine, Physicians, Nurses, Women in advertising, World War (1939-1945)
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About Penicillin
- 1944
Black and white print magazine advertisement for E.R. Squibb & Sons featuring an image of a micrograph of penicillin, the exterior of the corporation's penicillin manufacturing building, and the factory interior.
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Letter from S. S. Prentiss to Julius Kauffman
- 1945-Sep-05
Prentiss responds to Kauffman's assessment of the hospital oxygen analyzer, with emphasis upon the question of its ruggedness.
Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman…
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The Doctor...In Shirt Sleeves
- 1945-Sep-15
Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical Pharmaceutical Division. The advertisement features an illustration of a man in a well-furnished study consulting a book, with a microscope in view on his desk. He is seen…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Advertising, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Corporations, Pharmaceutical industry, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Medicine, Physicians
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More Penicillin...because Nickel guards purity...prevents spoilage
- 1946-Apr-27
Black and white advertisement from the International Nickel Company, Inc. highlighting the use of nickel to produce corrosion-resisting stainless steel for a variety of applications. The advertisement features an…
- Artist Flanagan, John Richard, 1895-1964
- Creator Of Work International Nickel Company
- Subject International Nickel Company, Penicillin, Women employees, Employees, Nickel, Nickel industry, Drugs
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Beckman D2 Oxygen Meter in use with an infant's incubator
- 1950s
This nurse is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions, but until the 1950s doctors did not realize…
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Beckman Model D Oxygen Meter in use with an infant's incubator
- 1950s
Los Angeles County General Hospital nurse Mary Finlay is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions,…
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Beckman Model E Analytical Ultracentrifuge
- 1950s
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…
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Beckman Model E Ultracentrifuge Rotor
- 1950s
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…
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Beckman Spinco Division Model E Centrifuge
- Undated
- 1950s
- 1963-Oct
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…
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Zenith Royal Hearing Aid
- 1950s
Gold colored plastic box with a black circular grate and gold steel clips on the front; on the left top corner is a black plastic tone dial and on the right top corner is the volume dial; on the right side is a black…
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Biological Chemical Laboratory at Dow Chemical Company
- 1952
General view of an unidentified employee working with assorted test tubes in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly conducted research and testing related to the development…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Biochemistry, Tubes--Testing, Glassware, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Biological Chemical Laboratory at Dow Chemical Company
- 1952
General view of an unidentified employee conducting an experiment with assorted fruit specimens in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly conducted research and testing…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Biochemistry, Glassware, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Biological Chemical Laboratory at Dow Chemical Company
- Circa 1952
General view of an unidentified employee holding a mouse while standing in front of several rows of cages used to house mice at the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Biochemistry, Laboratory animals
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Thomas-Van Slyke Manometric Blood Gas Apparatus
- Circa 1953
The Manometric Blood Gas Apparatus was a revision on the original, fairly simple volumetric glass apparatus designed by Dr. Van Slyke in around 1917. The instrument liberated and isolated "the desired gas contained in a…
- Manufacturer Arthur H. Thomas Company
- Subject Blood gases, Medicine, Clinical chemistry
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Protecting the Public Health
- 1954
Promotional booklet describing the infrastructure for health and safety testing of various products manufactured and sold by the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company. Highlights du Pont's toxicology program. Fully…
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Biological Chemical Laboratory at Dow Chemical Company
- 1955
General view of an unidentified employee weighing a rabbit in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. Several rows of pens containing other rabbits are visible in the background. The laboratory…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Biochemistry, Laboratory animals
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"Frog In Your Throat?" lozenges
- Circa 1957
Package states the "Medicated lozenges are beneficial in alleviating coughs due to smoking or colds, hoarseness, rawness, irritation, tickling and soreness, resulting from dryness of the through or from clearing the…
- Manufacturer Hance Brothers & White Company
- Subject Medicine, Drugs, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Animals in advertising, Drugs, Nonprescription
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Should your child be a Medical Technologist?
- 1957-Oct-21
Article from Life magazine, October 21, 1957.
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DeBakey knitted arterial graft of Dacron
- 1958
Hollow 8 mm tube of crimped, flexible Dacron (synthetic polyester fiber), off-white in color, and pink orange product label housed in original sealed plastic bag. Typically in the shape of a tube, Dacron grafts are…
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Peruvian postage stamp commemorating the centenary of the birth of Daniel Alcides Carrión García
- 1958
Peruvian postage stamp commemorating the centenary of the birth of Daniel Alcides Carrión García (1857-1885), a Peruvian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named. The stamp depicts Saint Martin de Porres…
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A nurse using a Beckman D-2 Oxygen Meter
- Circa 1959
A nurse uses a Beckman Oxygen Meter to monitor the oxygen flowing through an isolette containing a baby. Monitoring oxygen flow greatly reduced the rate of blindness (retrolental fibroplasia) among premature infants in…
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Beckman Glucose Analyzer warranty
- 1959
The text of the warranty is apparently a standard statement drafted before the development of the instrument in question.
The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and was one of several very…
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Beckman Model D Oxygen Meter in use with an infant's incubator
- Circa 1959
This nurse is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions, but until the 1950s doctors did not realize…
- Photographer Kassler Studios
- Subject Hospitals, Oxygen--Measurement, Newborn infants--Medical care, Infants, Women in medicine, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Robert Bruce Merrifield notebook
- 1959-May-26 – 1960-Jan-25
Notebook #321 kept by Robert Bruce Merrifield from May 26, 1959 through January 25, 1960 in which he sets out his general conception of solid phase peptide synthesis. This work earned him a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in…