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Portrait of H. Jermain Creighton

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Sepia toned photograph of H. Jermain Creighton. The lower right has a note from Creighton to Georg Bredig (1868-1944).

Creighton was the head of the chemistry department at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania in 1928. He previously was a professor in physical chemistry. Creighton is a pioneer of electrochemistry and is the inventor of the commercial process for producing alcohol from sugars by electrolytic reduction.

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  • 14.5 cm W x 21.5 cm H
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  • (Front bottom right) "Verry Sincerely H. Jermain Creighton"
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute
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  • Council on Library and Information Resources

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  • Series IV – Photographic Materials, 1894-1930
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  • Box 21

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Creighton, H. Jermain. “Portrait of H. Jermain Creighton,” n.d. Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, Box 21. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/q6s5vv1.

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