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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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Julian Black Scrapbooks of Joe Louis, 1935-1944
- Notes
- Joe Louis's manager, Julian Black, assembled these scrapbooks. Louis was heavyweight boxing champion of the world, 1937-1949. John Roxborough had encouraged Louis all along his career and became his manager when Joe turned pro. Roxborough hired Jack Blackburn, a boxer himself, to coach and train the young Louis, and teamed up with Julian Black of Chicago in a business venture which carried over into the management of Joe Louis. In his thirty-sixth professional fight, June 22, 1937, Louis won the heavyweight crown at 23 by defeating James J. Braddock in Chicago in eight rounds. He defended his title twenty times before World War II interrupted his career. He defended his title more times than any man in history
- Summary
- Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings from all over America, 1935-1941, and articles from "Ring" magazine. Collection documents most Joe Louis fights of the period. Clippings identified by source, date, and author, artist, or photographer; include full-length articles and brief sketches, cartoons, photographs, and records and statistics on boxers. While the scrapbooks are about the Louis fights, there is much material on others connected with boxing in this period--including all of Louis's opponents, trainer, managers, promoter, Mike Jacobs; and most of the sports reporters and writers of the time. Many important figures in boxing of this period are represented in these volumes
- Two sets of scrapbooks with different numbering systems: Series 1, Vols. 1-92; and Series 2, Vols. 17-20, 52-58, 61-63, and 71 & 72. Some volumes from the two sets contain the same information. For example, Louis Vol. 17 is similar to Black Vol. 27
- Cite as
- Julian Black Scrapbooks of Joe Louis, 1935-1944. Gift of Mrs. Julian Black
- Date
- 1935
- 1935-1944
- 1930-1950
- 20th century
- collector
- Black, Julian (boxing manager)
- donor
- Black, Julian Mrs
- publisher
- Chadwyck-Healey
- collector
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Roxborough, John
- Louis, Joe 1914-1981
- Jacobs, Mike
- Local number
- 1980.0683 (NMAH Acc.)
- 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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Lloyd Espenschied Papers, 1907-1969
- Notes
- Espenschied was born in St. Louis and graduated from Pratt Institute in electrical engineering, 1909; on staff of the Telefunken Wireless Telegraph Company, 1909-10; worked for American Telephone and Telegraph Company in various capacities, 1910-34; directed high-frequency transmission development for Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1934-37. Chief interests seem to have been wide-band and carrier waves and wide band systems for communications
- Summary
- Miscellaneous information on the history of telephonic and wireless communication; considerable personal correspondence about men and events in the field, especially disputed claims of inventions, development, and the like
- Cite as
- Lloyd Espenschied Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1907
- 1907-1969
- author
- Espenschied, Lloyd (electrical engineer) 1889-?
- collector
- Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Telefunken Wireless Telegraph Company
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company
- Bell Telephone Laboratories
- 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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DuPont Nylon Collection, 1939-1977
- Notes
- The E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company was founded July 19, 1802 by Eleuthere Irenee DuPont on Brandywine Creek to manufacture gunpowder. From this beginning the company engaged in the research, development and manufacture of a variety of products, including synthetic materials such as nylon, announced in 1938
- Summary
- Promotional booklets and pamphlets, 1940-1963, regarding nylon; catalogues on the industrial use of nylon; 25th anniversary book on nylon; photographs, and a variety of other documents. Includes memo to DuPont employees concerning the company's wartime involvement in the development of the atomic bomb
- Cite as
- DuPont Nylon Collection, 1939-1977, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1939
- 1939-1977
- creator
- DuPont (E. I.) de Nemours & Company
- collector
- Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution)
- Subject
- DuPont, Eleuthere Irenee
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Celluloid Corporation Records, 1892-1935
- Notes
- The Celluloid Manufacturing Company is the original corporate name of the present Celluloid Corporation. It was founded in 1872 to present celluloid to the world. The word "celluloid" was registered as a trademark in 1873 by its inventor, John Wesley Hyatt
- Summary
- Trade catalogs; price lists; notebooks; promotional literature; patents; a salesman's kit including samples; photographs and prints of plant buildings, personnel, celluloid molds and by-products
- Cite as
- Celluloid Corporation Records, 1892-1935, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1892
- 1892-1935
- creator
- Celluloid Corporation
- collector
- Hyatt, John Wesley inventor
- Subject
- Celluloid Manufacturing Company
- Nepera Chemical Company
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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American Scale and Service Company Records, 1912-1956
- Summary
- These records of this company, located in Kansas City, Missouri, include invoices; bills of material (quantity surveys); sales records with model name, number, date, customer; and promotional literature and specifications
- Cite as
- American Scale and Service Company Records, 1912-1956, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1912
- 1912-1956
- 1910-1960
- 20th century
- author
- American Scale and Service Company
- Creator
- Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, 1869-1973
- Notes
- The Albany Billiard Ball Company is possibly the earliest successful plastics firm and certainly one of the oldest plastics companies in the world. The business was started in 1868 on Albany's South End. At present the company is the only major billiard ball firm in the United States (renamed in September, 1977 the Albany-Hyatt Billiard Ball Company). John Wesley Hyatt was one of the company's founders and the American inventor of celluloid. Celluloid, besides being the base of photographic film, was a substitute for ivory, long the prime substance in billiard ball manufacture. The Hyatt "composition" ball, with a celluloid base, dominated the sport until the 1960s
- Summary
- These records include documents relating to Hyatt; legal documents, 1871-1966; bank books; patents; patent certificates; patent assignments; memoranda and articles of association; union contracts; balance sheets; profit and loss accounts; journals and cashbooks; ledgers; time books; invoices; photographs; and correspondence to and from the company, 1881-1973
- Cite as
- Albany Billiard Ball Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1869
- 1869-1973
- creator
- Albany Billiard Ball Company Albany, New York
- collector
- Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution)
- Subject
- Koener, Max
- Hyatt, John Wesley inventor
- Local number
- 83-5647 to 83-5652 (OIPP Neg. nos.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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