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Corporations -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Chester M. Brown

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-171
Abstract

This collection offers snapshots of Chester M. Brown at two stages of his career. In 1943-1945, taking on major responsibility as Plant Manager of the Point Pleasant West Virginia Ordinance Works where dynamite for the war effort was being produced, then, in 1962-1968 as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman-of-the-Board of the Allied Chemical Corporation, acting as corporate spokesman and a driving force for modernization within the company.

Dates: 1942-1981; Majority of material found within 1962-1968

Patents and records of the C. M. Kemp Manufacturing Company

 Collection
Identifier: 89-12
Abstract

There are instrumentation manuals published by the C. M. Kemp Mfg. Co. included in the CHF Instrumentation Manuals Collection.

Dates: 1884-1958

Paul M. Grinder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-047-001
Abstract

Dyestuff industry sample dye books and test cards collected and maintained by American dyestuff industry salesman Paul M. Grinder.

Dates: 1965-1995

Perkin-Elmer-Applera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GB01-036
Abstract

This material offers a broad overview of the Perkin-Elmer instrument Corp. as it prepared to celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 1987. It also includes material from the Perkin-Elmer Corporation mostly concerned with internal and external publicity.

Dates: 1943-1998; Majority of material found within 1950-1989

Perkin Elmer Corporation miscellaneous materials

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-521
Scope and content

Included in this collection is brief illustrated history of the firm by then president Horace G. McDonell and several pieces by and about John G. Atwood, Senior Scientist, Instruments Group at the corporation.

Dates: 1977-1999

Photographs from the Perkin-Elmer-Applera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GB01-36-002
Abstract

Print photographs and slides depicting the staff, facilities, and instrumentation of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation dating from the 1930s through the 1980s.

Dates: 1937-1985; Majority of material found within 1960s-1970s

Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-017-002
Abstract

Photographic prints, negatives, slides, and ephemera chronicling the plants, employees, products, advertising, and brand strategies of the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Incorporated), predominately dating from the second half of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1912-2007; Majority of material found within 1940s-1970s

Publications relating to Union Carbide Corporation

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-017
Scope and content

Three bound publications regarding Union Carbide collected by Peter H. Spitz. Titles include "Informal Personal Observations on the History of the Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation" (1937)"A Brief History of Chemistry in the Kanawha Valley" (1977), and "A Marketing Revolution Early Sales Efforts of the Union Carbide Corporation" (circa 1960).

Dates: 1937-1977

Records of Carbogel, Incorporated

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-021
Abstract

Administrative and research and development records of Carbogel, Incorporated, a United States subsidiary of AB Carbogel, a Swedish alternative fuels firm. Specifically, these records deal with attempts to develop coal water slurry fuels.

Dates: 1958-1990; Majority of material found within Bulk 1984-1987

Records of Hercules Incorporated

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-017
Abstract

This is a fragmentary set of corporate records dealing mainly with the public image of Hercules Inc.

Dates: 1913-1997