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Archival materials

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 573 Collections and/or Records:

Civil defense / radiological defense educational material

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-504
Scope and content

All of the materials except for a manual published by Victoreen Instrument Co. for use with its Radiation Survey Meter, Model No. 3 was issued by the U.S. government's Civil Defense Administration. Topics include use of a Geiger counter, construction of home fallout shelters, etc. There is also a set of lesson plans to teaching about radiation and its effects in high schools.

Dates: 1958-1959

Claire Schultz collection

 Collection
Identifier: 98-06
Scope and content

This is material relating to the early days of Information Science. The material dates from the punch card era of information retrieval and slightly thereafter. It includes an Port-A-Punch board for cutting cards to use on the IBM 101, cards for the Termatrex sorting system, a card punch and a copy of AIChE's Technical Information Thesaurus (Preliminary Edition).

Dates: 1960

Clinical laboratory manual: by John W. Sloan.

 Collection
Identifier: 00-35
Scope and content

Clinical laboratory manual written by John W. Sloan, dated 1941-1942. The preface of the manual states that its contents are standard procedures and accepted methods used at the Army Station Hospital Laboratory at Camp Roberts, California. There is also a black and white photograph of John W. Sloan in the chemistry laboratory, dated May 7, 1942.

Dates: 1941-1942

Coleman Instrument Company master cut book

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-516-003
Dates: undated

Commercial Solvents Corporation Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-026-001
Abstract

Correspondence, patents, publications, notes, production plans, proposals, memos, reports, and data belonging to the Commercial Solvents Corporation (CSC), as well as the personal files of Richard S. Egly, CSC’s Associate Scientific Director, and Emory E. Toops, Jr., a physical chemist in CSC’s Technical Development Department. The collection deals with the production of nitroparaffins and nitroparaffin derivatives, an area in which Commercial Solvents Corporation was preeminent.

Dates: 1924-1985; Majority of material found within 1938-1981

Contributions from Special Projects Division, Chemical Warfare Service, Camp Detrick, Maryland

 Collection
Identifier: 2022.534
Scope and content

Booklet of articles from the Special Projects Division of the United States Army's Chemical Warfare Service, based at Camp Detrick, Maryland. This booklet is reprinted from the June 1946 issue of the Botanical Gazette. Features one article titled "New Growth-regulating Compounds. I. Summary of Growth-inhibitory Activities of Some Organic Compounds as Determined by Three Tests" written by H.E. Thompson, Carl P. Swanson, and A.G. Norman.

Dates: 1946

David H. Killeffer Collection of Chemical Industry Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2004-525
Abstract

Photographs pertaining to various aspects of industrial chemistry collected by science journalist David H. Killeffer for use in his publications.

Dates: 1935-1962; Majority of material found within 1940s-1950s

David N. Clark Scientific Research Institutions Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-045
Abstract

A collection of materials collected by David N. Clark comprising documents and materials pertaining to several scientific research institutions, organizations, and companies with a focus on chemical and biological warfare.

Dates: 1969-2014

David Spence: Guayule Rubber Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-001-001
Abstract

Reports, correspondence, patent files, reprints of articles, photographs, experiment files, and graphs belonging to Scottish-American rubber chemist David Spence. The materials in this collection document Spence’s involvement in Intercontinental Rubber Company’s efforts in producing rubber from guayule during the 1920s and 1930s and the Guayule Rubber Project during World War II.

Dates: 1910-1951; Majority of material found within Bulk 1926-1946