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Dow Chemical Company saran film manufacturing facilities
- 1951
General view of employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Fourdrinier machine in use at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
Close-up view of a Fourdrinier machine in use at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, this Fourdrinier machine was used to dewater sheets of so-called…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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John Coleman operating roll rewinder at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
General view of back tender John Coleman operating a roll rewinder in the Cellulose Department at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the roll rewinder was…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery, Coleman, John
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Leroy Brown and John Williams operating automatic banding machine at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
General view of Leroy Brown and John Williams operating an automatic banding machine in the Cellulose Department at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, African Americans, Cellulose, African American men, Machinery, Brown, Leroy, Williams, John
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Paul F. Brown operating bale breaking machine at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
Two views of employee Paul F. Brown feeding raw cotton linters (short fiber residues left on the cottonseed after the longer staple, aka the "lint" fibers, are removed by ginning) into a bale breaking machine in the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Cotton, Polymers, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, African Americans, Cellulose, African American men, Machinery, Brown, Paul F.
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Production of cellulose gum at Hercules Hopewell plant
- 1951
General view of the production of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Also known as cellulose gum or tylose powder, CMC is a cellulose derivative commonly used as a…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
- Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Research Laboratory at Althouse Chemical Company plant
- 1951
General view of the Research Laboratory at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania showing various equipment and apparatus used for the production and testing of dyestuffs.
Based in Reading,…
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Research Laboratory at Althouse Chemical Company plant
- 1951
General view of the Research Laboratory at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania showing various equipment and apparatus used for the production and testing of dyestuffs.
Based in Reading,…
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Saran bubble at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
General view of an unidentified employee inspecting a saran bubble as it is extruded from a machine during the production of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, the film…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Saran bubbles at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
General view of saran bubbles being extruded from rolling machines during the production of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, the film passed through a series of…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Saran film manufacturing at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
General view of two unidentified employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. The employees are seen stretching a length of film between two rollers. During…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Saran film manufacturing at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. Saran plastic is seen passing through some type of bath or wash by virtue of a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Saran film production at Dow Chemical Company
- 1951
Elevated view of employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film was trimmed and wound into so-called inventory rolls, such as…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Extruder at Hercules Parlin plant
- 1951-May-01
Retouched photograph with a general view of an extruder used at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. Extruders were commonly used to process and shape a variety of raw materials produced at the…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer Bussa Studio
- Subject Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Cellulose, Machinery
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Bill Beamer at work in Dow Spectroscopy Laboratory
- 1952
General view of technician Bill Beamer operating an unidentified machine in the Dow Chemical Company's Spectroscopy Laboratory.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Machinery, Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beamer, Bill
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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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Employee at work in Dow Agricultural Research Laboratory
- 1952
General view of an unidentified employee using an apparatus to conduct an analysis at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Research Laboratory facilities in Seal Beach, California. The laboratory was commonly used to…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Agricultural chemicals, Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Soil fumigation, Agricultural chemistry, Glassware, Laboratories
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Employees at work in Dow Glass Fabrication department
- 1952
View of two unidentified employees shaping assorted laboratory glassware in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. The man on the left (closest to the camera) is seen using a table-top blow torch to…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Glass manufacture, Glassware
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Magnesium rolling mill at Dow plant in Madison, Illinois
- 1952
General view of several unidentified employees surveying the magnesium rolling mill at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Madison, Illinois. Dedicated in 1954, the magnesium fabrication plant in Madison was…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Magnesium, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Rolling-mill machinery, Machinery, Rolling-mills, Magnesium industry and trade
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Magnesium rolling mill at Dow plant in Madison, Illinois
- 1952
Overhead view of the magnesium rolling mill at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Madison, Illinois. Dedicated in 1954, the magnesium fabrication plant in Madison was the world's first facility designed for…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Magnesium, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Rolling-mill machinery, Machinery, Rolling-mills, Magnesium industry and trade
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Drillability apparatus at the Agricultural Engineering Laboratory
- Circa 1953
General view of an unidentified room at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Engineering Laboratory showing a drillability apparatus with fertilizer hoppers, a starwheel, and rotating plate mechanism.
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Granulation equipment at the Agricultural Engineering Laboratory
- Circa 1953
General view of granulation equipment used at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Engineering Laboratory located in Beltsville, Maryland. This equipment is believed to have been used by chemist John O.…
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Reaction vessels at Dow Chemical Company plant
- 1953
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company plant facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Several industrial-sized reaction vessels are visible in the photograph.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Machinery
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Small-scale continuous granulation equipment
- Circa 1953
General view of small-scale continuous granulation equipment used at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Engineering Laboratory.