LibGuides: Archival Collections: Chemical Enterprise

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These are the papers and corporate files of chemical businesses both large and small. There is also a reference collection dealing with the history of the chemical industry in the United States.

Saran Bubble, 1987

Dow Chemical Historical Image Collection, Science History Institute Archives.

List of Collections

Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection
A collection of print advertisements, leaflets, posters and other ephemera created by the Dow Chemical Company, ranging from 1921-1993.
Alan Klawans Collection
1960s-1970s.
Pharmaceutical advertising.
Allied Chemical Newsletters
Althouse, Bates, and Crompton Chemical Companies Photographs
Manufacture of dyes
Beckman Historical Collection
1911-2011 (bulk 1934-2004)
Business records, correspondence, research files, financial records, photographs, publications, and audio-visual materials of American scientist and industrialist Arnold O. Beckman and the American scientific and medical instrument manufacturer Beckman Coulter, Incorporated.
Chemical Market Research Association Papers and Records
Commercial Solvent Corporation
Records of the Commercial Solvent Corporation, 1939-1987.
David H. Killeffer Collection of Chemical Industry Photographs
1935-1962, (bulk 1940-1950s). Photographs pertaining to various aspects of industrial chemistry collected by science journalist David H. Killeffer for use in his publications.
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Chemical Historical Collection, 1897-2006 (bulk 1900-1990)
Dow Chemical Company Historical Image Collection
Du Pont (standard operating procedures volumes)
1935-1944 (bulk 1943)
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.
The Dyers of Providence, Rhode Island their drug, chemical and dyestuff businesses, 1803-1852 manuscript.
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Nylon Correspondence
Flowtran System Archives
Hercules Incorporated
Records & ephemera of Hercules Incorporated 1913-1997.
Hercules Incorporated Photograph Collection
Photographs chronicling the plants, employees, products, advertising, and brand strategies of Hercules Inc.
Herman Fialkov Papers
John C. Wiarda Company
Dry Cleaning Products
Kir G. Karouna Collection
1943-1996
Many of the industry documents are from companies that sell paints and resins, although some other sectors are represented as well.
Liebig's Extract of Meat Company Advertisement Card
Manufacturing Chemists Association
Letter Books
Mitsubishi Rayon Company brochure, 1954.
A brochure from the Mitsubishi Rēyon company.
New England Nuclear Corporation Materials
New Jersey Chemical Company Superior Fertilizers Brochure,
Norda Essential Oil and Chemical Company
Photographs of manufacture of essential oils
Nuklidkarte chart of the nuclides - tableau des nucleides - tabla de nuclidos / W. Seelmann-Eggebert, G. Pfenning, H. Münzel.
Records of the American Chemical Society Division of Small Chemical Businesses.
Records of the Commercial Development and Management Association
Records of the Commercial Development Association
Robert Baptista, (Dyes, Dyeing & Color)
1922-2006 (bulk 1960-2000)
U.S. colorants industry.
Robert J. Bauman Collection
Rohm & Haas Historical Collection
The Rohm & Haas Company archives, 1743-1998 (bulk 1907-1983)
Sales Association of the Chemical Industry Membership Materials.
Uniroyal Chemical History Materials
Vanadium Corporation of America
Photographs of mining of metals and ferro alloys
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company Pocket Notebook.
W.L. Badger Associates Collection
Weibel-Hewlett Packard HP 5930A Mass Spectrometer Materials
Williams Haynes Research Collection
1904-1960 (bulk 1926-1939)