James Cloyd Downs Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2018-016
James Cloyd Downs Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2018-016
The James Cloyd Papers contain the personal and professional papers of American chemical engineer James Cloyd Downs. The collection is arranged into the following six series:
- Diaries
- Correspondence Files
- Downs Cell Files
- Miscellaneous
- Printed Materials
- Photographs
- Access Restrictions
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There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes and the collection is open to the public.
- Dates
- Creation: 1902-2018
- Creation: Bulk 1923-1957
- Extent
- 3.5 Linear Feet (2 Record Boxes and 1 Hollinger Box.)
- Related Names
- Downs, James C. (Cloyd), 1885-1957
- Downs, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1913-1991
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
- National Distillers and Chemical Corporation
- Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co
- Language of Materials
- English
Series I. Diaries, 1914-1957, undated
Series
Identifier: I
- Dates
- Creation: 1914-1957, undated
Diary Index - “Pages in the Personal Diaries of James Cloyd Downs with Notes of Technical Interest”, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Diary, 1914
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1914
Diary, 1923
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1923
Diary (Includes magazine clipping and newspaper clippings.), 1929
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1929
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings and magazine clippings.), 1930
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1930
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings.), 1931
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1931
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, notes, and a price tag.), 1932
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1932
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, a securities list, a business card, and notes.), 1933
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1933
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, a securities list, and a hotel logo.), 1934
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1934
Diary (Includes postal stamps, a securities list, newspaper clippings, and notes.), 1935
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1935
Diary (Includes notes, newspaper clippings, a receipt, and a magazine clipping.), 1936
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1936
Diary (Includes postal stamps and newspaper clippings.), 1937
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1937
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings and a commission charge list.), 1938
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1938
Diary (Includes a business outlook list, newspaper clippings, notes, and Christmas seals.), 1939
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1939
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, an election campaign sticker, and Christmas seals.), 1940
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1940
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings and business cards.), 1941
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
- Dates
- Creation: 1941
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, a magazine clipping, a receipt, notes, and Christmas seals.), 1942
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1942
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, a tax stamp, and a magazine clipping.), 1943
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1943
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and notes.), 1944
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1944
Diary (Includes notes, a brochure, newspaper clippings, and a magazine clipping.), 1945
File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1945
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, notes, and typed transcript re: Wilbur G. Down’s Bronze Star Award.), 1946
File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1946
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings and notes.), 1947
File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1947
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, notes, and a receipt.), 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: 1948
Diary (Includes notes, newspapers clippings, magazine clippings, a receipt, a postcard, and a business card.), 1949
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
- Dates
- Creation: 1949
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, a magazine clipping, notes, and a shopping list.), 1950
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
- Dates
- Creation: 1950
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, notes, and shopping lists.), 1952
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1952
Diary (Includes a newspaper clipping, a magazine clipping, and notes.), 1953
File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
- Dates
- Creation: 1953
Diary (Includes magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, an invitation, a business card, and 1 black and white photograph.), 1954
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1954
Diary (Includes notes, newspaper clippings, an invitation, and a business card.), 1955
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1955
Diary (Includes notes, a receipt, newspaper clippings, business cards, and a magazine clipping.), 1956
File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1956
Diary (Includes newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, an automobile registration card, notes, and business cards.), 1957
File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1957
Series II. Correspondence Files, 1902-1956
Series
Identifier: II
- Dates
- Creation: 1902-1956
Anthony, William A., 1902-1904
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1902-1904
Coopey, Walter, 1949
File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1949
Downs, Wilbur G., 1934 July 17
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: 1934 July 17
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1937
File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: 1937
Hulse, Robert E., 1956
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1956
Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal Lectures, 1934
File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1934
Citation
Cite Item
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, James Cloyd Downs Papers, 1902-2018, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Cite Item Description
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, James Cloyd Downs Papers, 1902-2018, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. https://sciencehistory.libraryhost.com/repositories/3/resources/153 Accessed March 13, 2025.