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Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, 1902-1950
- Notes
- Company founded by Dr. Samuel P. Duffield, physician and pharmacist. Partnership of Duffield and Harvey C. Parke formed 1866. George S. Davis third partner, 1867. Duffield withdrew 1869. Name Parke, Davis & Company adopted 1871; incorporated 1875. Company first showed profit 1876, first dividend paid to shareholders 1878; dividends paid until mid-1960s. Research was a major activity. Due to weakening financial position, company susceptible to take-over, purchased by Warner-Lambert early 1970s
- Summary
- Includes engineer's files of equipment used in the Detroit plant; blueprints and linen drawings of the Detroit plant, including building floor layouts, equipment & placement, and computer readouts of the linen drawings; plant operating manuals from the Detroit factory; incomplete sets of the "Parke-Davis Review" and "Parke-Davis Notes"; photographs of the Detroit plant, laboratory, and manufacturing equipment; lantern slides of the Parke-Davis biological laboratory; trademark file, listing product name, registration numbers and dates; product catalogues; the book, Scientific Contributions from the Laboratories, 1866-1966; pocket lab book used by Parke-Davis researchers in their experiments as presented in the research files listed next;
- Bound drug research files (1902-1940s) at Parke-Davis in their Detroit labs, including external and internal correspondence; reprints in loose-leaf binders of articles based on this research; and a card file of these researchers by name and dates
- Cite as
- Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1902
- 1902-1950
- 1900-1950
- 20th century
- author
- Parke, Davis Company
- collector
- Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI
- contractor
- National Underground Storage
- founder of the Parke-Davis Company
- Duffield, Samuel P. Dr (physician pharmacist)
- partner in the Parke, Davis Company
- Parke, Harvey
- Davis, George S
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Howe Scale Company Records, 1868-1963
- Notes
- Frank M. Strong, Vergennes, Vermont, invented the Howe Scale. In 1856, with Thomas Ross, Strong obtained his first patent, which became the first outstanding scale improvement in America, and the foundation of the present business. The first scale with the improved ball bearing was installed at Vernon Village Mills, Oenida County, N.Y., 1856. In 1858 Howe began to win awards consistently at fairs and exhibitions, and by 1859 had no competition. At the Paris Exposition, 1867, Howe took first prizes
- Summary
- Records of various companies, some of which eventually merged into the Howe Scale Company: corporate records, minutes, charters, legal documents, stock certificate books, and correspondence; sales records, newsletters, inter-branch correspondence, catalogs and price lists; financial records, ledgers, journals; cash books, inventories, reports, trial balances with recapitulations; photographs; specifications; and news clippings
- Date
- 1868
- 1868-1963
- 20th century
- 1930-1950
- creator
- Howe Scale Co
- inventor
- Strong, Frank M
- Ross, Thomas
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Elisha Gray Collection, 1871-1938
- Notes
- Elisha Gray (1835-1901) was an inventor and the co-founder of the Western Electric Company. Gray is best known for his part in a bitter controversy with Alexander Graham Bell over the priority of invention of the telephone
- Summary
- Legal documents, photographs, articles, copies of correspondence, three folders of original Gray correspondence on the Gray-Bell controversy; most of the collection consists of copies of material, or printed matter, collected by Lloyd W. Taylor of the museum staff
- Cite as
- Elisha Gray Collection, 1871-1938, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1871
- 1871-1938
- 1850-1900
- 1900-1950
- 1930-1950
- author
- Gray, Elisha (1835-1901) inventor
- collector
- Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Bell, Alexander Graham 1847-1922
- Taylor, Lloyd W
- Western Electric Co
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Harvard University Graduate Photographs, ca. 1840s-1860s
- Summary
- Mounted albumen and salted paper photoprints (some with surface coating) of Harvard University graduates, incl. in many cases name, date, and residence
- Date
- 1840
- 1860
- ca 1840s-1860s
- 1840-1860
- 19th century
- compiler
- Harvard University
- Subject
- Harvard University
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Leo H. Baekeland Papers, 1863-1968
- Notes
- Baekeland came to the U.S. in 1890 from Belgium. His first major invention was "Velox" photographic paper. He started the Nepera Chemical Co. in 1893, and in 1899 sold it to Eastman Kodak. He is best known for inventing the first commercial synthetic resin, to which he applied the trademark "Baeklite." In 1910 the General Bakelite Company, later the Bakelite Corporation, was organized to manufacture and distribute the raw materials for making phenolic parts
- Summary
- These papers include student notebooks; private laboratory notebooks and journals; commercial laboratory notes; diaries; patents; technical papers; biographies; newspaper clippings; maps; graphs; blueprints; account books; batch books; formula books; order books; photographs; and correspondence to, from, and regarding Baekeland, 1887-1943. The photographs include photoprints, as well as original glass plate and film negatives; subject matter includes personal and family documentation, and pictures taken on family travels in the United States and Europe
- Cite as
- Leo H. Baekeland Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1863
- 1863-1968
- 1880-1970
- 19th-20th century
- author
- Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik) 1863-1944
- Subject
- Nepera Chemical Co
- Bakelite Corporation
- Local number
- 1984.3065 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1988.3001 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1984.3024 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1988.3017 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1988.3002 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Edmund A. Laport Collection, ca. 1920-1950
- Notes
- Edmund A. Laport is a former director of broadcast engineering for the Radio Corporation of America
- Summary
- About 300 photographs of antennas and broadcast installations, including Laport's detailed captions; also some photographs related to television; and four articles by Laport
- Cite as
- Edmund A. Laport Collection, ca. 1920-1950, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1920
- 1920-1950
- ca 1920-1950
- 1900-1950
- donor
- Laport, Edmund A
- collector
- Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Local number
- 1997.3027 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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A. J. Noerager Collection, 1914-1940
- Notes
- Noerager was a mining engineer who worked on several power stations in Chile, South America
- Summary
- Photographs of Chilean power stations and equipment; and engineering drawings and blueprints of the Braden Copper Company, Rancaqua, Chile
- Cite as
- A. J. Noerager Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1914
- 1914-1940
- 1900-1950
- collector
- Noerager, A. J
- creator
- Braden Copper Company
- Local number
- 1997.3026 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection, 1884-1965
- Notes
- Du Mont was an engineer for Westinghouse Lamp Company. From 1928 to 1931 he was chief engineer for the DeForest Radio Company. At that time he established his own firm, Du Mont Laboratories Inc., and directed its work until 1960, when the laboratory was acquired by Fairchild Instrument and Camera Corporation
- Summary
- Materials dealing with the products of the Du Mont firm; also a substantial block of information on the struggles over regulation of the television industry; much publicity and advertising copy related to Du Mont Products; and a few personal items
- Cite as
- Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection, 1929-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1884
- 1884-1965
- 20th century
- collector
- Du Mont, Allen B (Allen Balcom) 1901-1965
- Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Du Mont Laboratories, Inc
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Chevalier Jackson Papers, 1883-1960
- Notes
- Chevalier Jackson, M.D., an American pioneer in the field of endoscopy, was a major figure in Philadelphia medicine. He once held faculty appointments at five medical schools in that city. His experience in treating children who had ingested lye or other caustic materials led to an unremitting campaign to have bottles containing such materials labelled "poison," which eventually led to passage of the Federal Caustic Substances Act in 1927. He also gained renown for surgically removing objects inhaled or swallowed by patients and was active in the effort to educate people to prevent such accidents. He developed and adapted surgical instruments used in endoscopy and wrote a number of text books
- Summary
- Autobiographical and biographical notes, some correspondence, personal mementoes, dried flowers, snapshots, notes for publications, photographs, notes from lectures attended, articles, reprints, reports by Dr. Jackson and a few by other authors, proofs and illustrations for textbooks and other publications, patient case histories, several notebooks with Dr. Jackson's written in by Dr. Jackson, and four books, one of which is by Dr. Jackson
- Cite as
- Chevalier Jackson Papers, 1883-1960, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1878
- 1878-1960
- 1883-1960
- 19th-20th century
- 1930-1950
- author
- Jackson, Chevalier Dr (physician) 1865-1958
- collector
- Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Jackson, William Stanford
- Morage, Katherine Ann
- Foster, Gilmore
- Mackenzie, Morell
- University of Western Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- Jefferson Medical College
- Western Medical College
- University of Pennsylvania
- Temple University
- Women's College of Pennsylvania
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Marconi Family Portraits, 1930s
- Notes
- Copies of other Marconi family photographs: OPPS Negs. 88-16398, 85-10239; 85-10237; 85-10238
- Guglielmo Marconi spent his entire life developing wireless communication into a practical reality
- Summary
- A photomechanical photograph (with plate marks, bearning Marconi's signature) of the Marchese Marconi and two photographic copy prints of the Marchese, the Marchesa, and their daughter Elettra Marconi. Also three copy photographs (in control file) made by OPPS, apparently from a loan
- Cite as
- Marconi Family Portraits, 1930s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Maria and Elletra Marconi
- Date
- 1930
- 1940
- 1930s
- 1930-1940
- 20th century
- collector
- Marconi, Guglielmo marchese 1874-1937
- subject
- Marconi, Elletra Princess
- Marconi, Maria Marchesa
- Subject
- Marconi family
- Local number
- 88-16398 (OPPS Neg., copy of collection photo.)
- 1986.3031 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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