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Three chemical industry catalogs: General Chemical Company, Clive & Co., and Reynolds & Branson Limited

 Collection
Identifier: 86-06

Scope and content

General Chemical Company and Reynolds & Branson Limited. provided chemicals. The catalogs date from the 1930s. Clive& Company provided chemical apparatus. Their catalog is undated.

Dates

  • Creation: 1931-1932

Creator

Language of Materials

Text in English.

Biographical sketch

Roberta M. Tremain was a textile chemist employed in the Research Department. Her group would report each year on their research work recording their findings in notebooks illustrated with samples of the textiles or fibers that they studied.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (3 catalogs)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--William Helfand. Method of acquisition--Gift;; Date of acquisition--1986..

General Note

This is a collection of three unrelated catalogs produced by chemical manufacturers.

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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