LibGuides: Archival Collections: Industrial Chemistry

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By far the largest number of the Science History Institutes's archival collections deals with the manufacture of chemical products. There are both corporate records and collections of personal papers listed herein.

Hercules Worker Cutting Powder Strands

Photographs from the Records of Hercules Inc., 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.
American Society of Brewing Chemists Program, 1960
Attendee program from the 1960 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Brewing Chemists.
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 Historical Image Collection
E. B. Badger & Sons, Company Ledger
Eastman Kodak Company Distillation Products Industries postcards.
Fertilizer History Material
Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory
Nitrogen fixation and fertilizer industry
Hercules Inc. Image Collection
Hercules Powder Company records and photographs
Howard S. Turner Letter Accompanying a Donation of Corfam Shoes
Julius Reiver Collection, 1939-1940
This is a comprehensive collection dealing with the construction of the Seaford Plant in Delaware.
The L. Arthur D'Asaro Papers.
Norda Essential Oil and Chemical Company
Photographs of manufacture of essential oils
Papers of Chester M. Brown, 1942-1981.
1943-1945, Plant Manager of the Point Pleasant West Virginia Ordnance Works where dynamite for the war effort was being produced, then, in 1962-1968 as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman-of-the-Board of the Allied Chemical Corporation.
Patent application for fibrous boehmite, 1955
A hardbound copy of a 176 page patent application by John Bugosh for fibrous boehmite
Paul J. Hartsuch, A Non-H2S Scheme of Qualitative Analysis Document
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh: steel & smoke print.
Records of the Burman- Rennerfelt acid aluminia process, 1932-1954.
Spinco Historical Collection
Swiss Villa Mixed Paints Sample Card.
USDA Bureau of Chemistry
USDA laboratories and equipment
Vanadium Corporation of America
Photographs of mining of metals and ferro alloys