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Photograph collections

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs from the Records of the Althouse, Bates, and Crompton Chemical Companies

 Collection
Identifier: 2004-012-002
Abstract

Black and white print photographs of the instrumentation and facilities used in the manufacture of dyes at the Althouse, Bates, and Crompton Chemical Companies.

Dates: 1946-1974 ; Majority of material found within 1951-1966

Photographs from the Records of the American Chemical Society Division of Cellulose Chemistry

 Collection
Identifier: 1985-001-002
Abstract

Black and white photographs, primarily portraits, related to the history of the American Chemical Society Division of Cellulose Chemistry.

Dates: 1920-1976

Photographs from the Records of the Commercial Solvent Corporation

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-026-002
Abstract

Print photographs and scrapbook pages documenting the Commercial Solvents Corporation's nitroparaffin plant, explosions, tests for shipping nitromethane, and portraits of CSC employee Richard S. Egly.

Dates: 1942-1976; Majority of material found within 1958-1976

Photographs from the Records of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-600-002
Abstract

Print photographs documenting the officers and activities of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) between 1925 and 1995.

Dates: 1925-1995 (bulk 1980s)

Review of Nylon Textile Fibers Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-025
Abstract

Black and white print photographs comprising a promotional scrapbook entitled "A Review of Nylon Textile Fibers."

Dates: July 1948

Robert Alcott Collection of Crystalline Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-063
Abstract

Photographs, digital photographs and notes on Alcott's work as a "crystallographer", making art pieces by exposing chemical compounds to light to make flat crystalline structures.

Dates: 1994-2012

Robert H. Burris Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P00-09-002
Abstract

Photographs depicting the colleagues of Robert Harza Burris, a professor of Biochemistry and pioneer in the use of mass spectrometry to study biological nitrogen fixation.

Dates: 1960s-2000; Majority of material found within 1960s-1970s

Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-501
Abstract

A series of slides of scientific apparatus, laboratories, and other objects related to the history of chemistry in the collections of European science and technology museums. The slides were taken by Robert K. Wismer in the spring of 2000 while on sabbatical from Millersville University.

Dates: February-March 2000

Samuel Ruben Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-038-002
Abstract

Black and white and color photographs of inventor Samuel Ruben, his family, and colleagues.

Dates: circa 1890s-1960s

Thomas J. Porro Collection of Perkin-Elmer Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-035
Abstract

Print photographs and slides depicting the instrumentation and staff of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation predominately dating from the 1950s and the 1980s.

Dates: 1950s-1980s