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Key punch operators at Dow Tabulating Department
- 1947-Dec-16
General view of key punch operators (front to back) Ilene Allen, Janet Dyer, Jesse Haven, Marion McFadden, and Margaret Preznowiak transcribing written data into tabulating cards in the Tabulating Department at the Dow…
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Chemical and Engineering News profiling Dr. Betty J. Sullivan (1902-1999)
- 1948-Jul-12
Two-page article from the July 12, 1948 edition of Chemical and Engineering News profiling Dr. Betty J. Sullivan (1902-1999).
Betty J. Sullivan was born on May 31, 1902 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and educated at the…
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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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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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Caroline Cooper and staff at nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia
- 1950s
Group photograph of staff from DuPont's nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia. Caroline Cooper, the first forewoman promoted to shift supervisor, is visible in the front row, fourth from right. The rest of the…
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Checking Odor Values
- 1950s
View of chemists checking the odor values of the fractions of the distilled oil before bulking at the Norda Company plant in Boonton, New Jersey.
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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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Group photograph of staff at nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia
- 1950s
Group photograph of staff from DuPont's nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia. Supervisor C.P. White is visible in the front row, far left side. The rest of the individuals depicted in the photograph are unidentified.
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Portrait of Gae Adamson Bennett (b. 1917)
- 1950s
Portrait of agricultural economist Gae Adamson Bennett (b. 1917). While working for the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Bennett co-authored numerous volumes on agricultural production…
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Workshop in an unidentified Beckman Instruments plant
- 1950s
Women assembling unidentified instruments at Beckman Instruments or one of its divisions.
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Mexican postage stamp commemorating the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (25th anniversary)
- 1951
Mexican postage stamp issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México (the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) on January 1, 1936. Established during the…
- Creator Of Work Mexico. Dirección General de Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores
- Subject Commemorative postage stamps, Mexico, Postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexico), Women in science, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Science--Study and teaching
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Printing Department at the Althouse Customer Service Laboratory
- 1951
General view of the Printing Department at the Althouse Chemical Company Customer Service and Quality Control Laboratory in Reading, Pennsylvania. Omer Bixler (left) is seen cutting fabric samples while technicians near…
- Contributor Feeman, James
- Subject Dye industry, Employees, Dyes and dyeing, Althouse Chemical Company, Women employees
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Printing Department at the Althouse Customer Service Laboratory
- 1951
General view of the Printing Department at the Althouse Chemical Company Customer Service and Quality Control Laboratory in Reading, Pennsylvania. Omer Bixler (left) is seen cutting fabric samples while technicians near…
- Contributor Feeman, James
- Creator Of Work Tenschert Commercial Photo Studio
- Subject Dye industry, Employees, Dyes and dyeing, Althouse Chemical Company, Women employees
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Dyeing technicians at Althouse Customer Service Laboratory
- 1952
View of dyeing technicians working in the Customer Service and Quality Control Laboratory at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania. The technicians are engaged in a skein dyeing process whereby…
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Skein dyeing and color matching at Althouse Customer Service Laboratory
- 1952
View of dyeing technicians working in the Customer Service and Quality Control Laboratory at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania. The technicians are engaged in a skein dyeing process whereby…
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Group portrait of U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel
- 1952-May
Group photograph of unidentified female personnel at an unidentified United States Department of Agriculture facility. A large board bearing a sheaf of wheat is visible in front of the group.
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Bertha Warren trimming platinum wires at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
General view of employee Bertha Warren using embroidery scissors to trim platinum wires used in the electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Warren, Bertha
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Emily Port inserting plug and bridge wire into electric blasting caps
- 1954
General view of employee Emily Port inserting plugs and bridge wires into the shells of electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Port, Emily
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Group photograph of Perkin-Elmer Corporation employees
- Circa 1954
Group photograph of unidentified employees of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation, a manufacturer of analytical instruments, diagnostic tools, and medical imaging equipment. A copy of The Perkin-Elmer News , an in-house…
- Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
- Subject Employees, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Corporations, Women employees
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Product demonstration at chemical industry trade show (circa 1954)
- Circa 1954
Two views of a product demonstration at the Hercules Powder Company exhibition display at an unidentified chemical industry trade show. The individuals visible in the photograph are unidentified.
Formed in 1912 as part…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Advertising, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical industry, Corporations, Trade shows, Employees, Women employees, Hercules Incorporated
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Joseph X. Labovsky and staff at nylon plant in Martinsville, Virginia
- 1954-Dec-10
Group photograph of staff responsible for the development and manufacture of the "Type 9" textile at the DuPont plant in Martinsville, Virginia. Team supervisor Joseph X. Labovsky is seated at the center of the…
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Analytical Laboratory at Dearborn Chemical Company facility
- 1955
General view of employees (left to right) Ruth Johnson Dugo, Lillian Kazmierzki, Valentine I. Miciulis, and Serge Levicki at work in the Analytical Laboratory at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory…
- Creator Of Work Dearborn Chemical Company
- Subject Women in science, Employees, Chemical industry, Laboratories, Water purification chemicals industry, Corporations, Women employees, Glassware, Dearborn Chemical Company, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dugo, Ruth Johnson, Kazmierzki, Lillian, Miciulis, Valentine I., Levicki, Serge
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Dorothy Locke working with blasting caps at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1955
Close-up view of employee Dorothy Locke setting lead wires in a mold, part of the assembly line production of electric blasting caps, at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. During the production of…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Assembly-line methods, Locke, Dorothy
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Emily Port inserting plug and bridge wire into electric blasting caps
- 1955
General view of employee Emily Port inserting plugs and bridge wires into the shells of electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Port, Emily