Trade catalogs from Pfaudler Co.

Date: 1900s

Company Name: Pfaudler Co.Related Companies: Pfaudler Vacuum Fermentation Process Company : Robbins & Myers Corp. ; Sybron Corp. ; Pfaudler Permutit Inc. ; Permutit Co. ; Sohio Co.

Place: Rochester, New York, United States

Topic (Romaine Term): Butchers’ supplies (including meat processing industry)Ceramics; pottery; glass; crystal; china; bricks; and stonesChemicals and chemical productsCosmeticsDrugs; pharmaceuticals and patent medicinesEngineering consultants and contractorsFarm equipment and supplies (including dairy and poultry equipment)Foods and beverage products and processing equipment (including brewing; distilleries; beer; wine; etc.)Industrial equipment or mechanical machinery (including supplies and components)Iron and steel products (castings; sheet steel; steel wire; wire rope; pig iron and structural steel products )Laboratories and laboratory supplies and equipmentMaterials handling equipment (includes barrels; bottling and filling; casters; chains; etc.)Paint; varnishes; adhesives; coatings; etc.Pumping machinery and air compressorsRailroad; streetcar; subway and tramway equipment and suppliesRefinery equipmentWaste Management (including water treatment; recycling; refuse collection; industrial waste; etc.)Topic: "Laboratories -- Furniture, equipment, etc.""Recycling (Waste, etc.)"AdhesivesAir-compressorsBarrelsBeverage industryBottlingButchersCeramicsChemicalsConsulting engineersCosmeticsDairyingDistilleriesDrugsEngineersFarm equipmentFood industry and tradeGlassIndustrial equipmentIron industry and tradeMachineryMeat industry and tradeOil field equipment and supplies industryPaint industry and tradePatent medicines

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Record Id: SILNMAHTL_31552

Type Of Material: Trade catalogsTrade literature

Notes Content: Trade lit for the inventor of glass-lined steel and which is today the world's leading supplier both domestically and worldwide with a complete line of Glasteel® equipment including: reactors, storage vessels, columns, mixer systems, instrumentation, and reglassing services. Circa 1901 catalog for glass enamelled steel tanks from the Pfaudler Vacuum Fermentation Co. ; Bulletin C5, Glass Enameled Steel Equipment for the Chemical Industries ; circa 1950s & 1960s bulletins related to Pfaudler's glass steel reactors and other process equipment ; a November 1968 paper entitled "A Report on Treatment of Plating Wastes" ; circa 1920s-1930s catalogs for chemical equipment ; 1920s catalogs for the canning and other food processing plus beverage industries ; a circa 1927 booklet entitled "Why not try your hand at vacuum?" ; catalog #680 for glass-lined dairy equipment ; heat exchangers and condensers ; truck and train tank cars ; corrosion-resistant equipment ; emulsifier ; catalog no. 714 (c. 1930) covering equipment suitable for the pharmaceutical , cosmetic, rayon, petroleum, sugar and mild chemical industries ; brine maker and syrup machine ; non-corrosive lacquer & shellac equipment ; dairy and ice-cream equipment ; kettles ; mixing and storage tanks ; glass-lined pipes and fittings ; autoclaves ; centrifuges ; circa 1934 installation and operation instructions ; glass-lined steel laundry chutes for hospitals ; circa 1910s-1950s. Interesting graphics: cover of 1922 dairy equipment catalog features a soft-focused pencil-and-pastel drawing of an infant eating, while the cover of the April-May 1942 newsletter "The Glass Lining: features a drawing (by Charles B. Bracker) of a panicked-looking Uncle Sam yelling "Speed! Speed! Speed! We must not die at sunrise!", while standing in front of the rising sun insignia of the Japanese Navy." File also contains partial runs of the company newsletter The Glass Lining from 1925, 1926 and 1942 - six items total.Includes: Trade catalog, price lists, manual and historiesBlack and white imagesColor imagesPhysical Description: 101 pieces; 4 boxes

Record Id: SILNMAHTL_31552

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