Explosives industry

A bound copy of My Family and the Grasselli Chemical Company by Caesar A. Grasselli, published posthumously, recounting his family history and the history of the Grasselli Chemical Company.

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.