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ABS resins.
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Antiques.
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Armored vehicles, Military
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Automobiles
2
Bakelite
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Beverage containers
1
Beverage containers.
2
Billiards
1
Biodegradable plastics.
1
Blow Molding.
1
Brooms and brushes.
1
Business and Industry
45
Celluloid.
2
Chemical engineering
1
Chemical plants.
1
Combs.
4
Conservation of natural resources.
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Container industry.
1
Engineers
3
Eyeglasses.
1
Factories
1
Factories.
2
Flatware
1
Food
1
Food containers.
1
Gearing.
1
Glass fibers.
1
Gums and resins, Synthetic.
1
Gums and resins.
1
Hair
1
Heat resistant plastics.
1
Hydraulic machinery.
1
Industrial Design
4
Industrialization
1
Injection molding of plastics.
6
Manufacturing processes.
2
Mechanical drawing
1
Melamine.
1
Methyl methacrylate.
1
Mirrors
1
Molding materials.
1
Nitrocellulose.
1
Ornamental combs.
3
Packaging.
1
Patent infringement.
1
Patent suits.
1
Patents.
2
Phenolic resins.
1
Piping.
1
Plastic bottles
1
Plastic containers.
2
Plastic tableware
1
Plastic tableware.
2
Plastic toys.
1
Plastics
45
Plastics as art material.
2
Plastics in automobiles.
2
Plastics in boatbuilding.
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Plastics in building.
2
Plastics in electric engineering.
1
Plastics in household appliances.
2
Plastics in interior decoration.
1
Plastics in medicine
1
Plastics in packaging.
4
Plastics industry and trade
12
Plastics industry and trade.
32
Plastics machinery industry
2
Plastics machinery.
6
Plastics plants
1
Plastics plants.
3
Plastics workers
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Polyethylene
1
Polyethylene terephthalate.
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Polystyrene.
1
Polytef.
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Product formulas.
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Pyralin.
1
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
1
Recycling industry.
1
Reinforced plastics.
1
Rotational molding of plastics.
1
Science and medicine
1
Styrene.
2
Sunglasses industry.
1
Sunglasses.
1
Technical drawings.
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Thermoforming.
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Thermoplastics.
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Thermosetting composites.
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Thermosetting plastics.
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Toothbrushes.
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Trade literature.
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Traffic engineering.
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Traffic flow.
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Tupperware Home Parties.
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Manuscripts

The plastics manuscript collections include personal papers and company records related to the development of the plastics industry, mostly in the United States. The collections contain product and process designs and patents; printed company advertising and published catalogues; technical specifications and reports; and papers, articles and other writings by a variety of notable individuals.

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Amorosi Family Collection

Collection contains pencil drawings of comb designs presumably drawn by George and/or Samuel Amorosi; bound volume of photopies of sketches; and 2 photographs, of George Amorosi and Samuel Amorosi.

 

Armand G. Winfield Papers

Collection contains the professional and personal papers of Armand G. Winfield. It focuses on the client files of Winfield's consulting company, which he formed in 1964.

 

Bakelite Collection

Collection contains correspondence, printed material, and technical reports related to the Bakelite Corporation.

 

Bolta Products Collection

Collection includes product literature and advertisements for Boltaware, and blueprints for pieces of Boltaware.

 

Claude Hill Image Collection

Collection consists largely of slides, and three filmstrips, of plastic applications and industrial processes related to plastics collected by Claude Hill during his career as a professor of Plastics Engineering Technology, 1965-1995.

 

Ed Michaels Papers

Collection contains papers, reports and newspaper articles on resin transfer molding, including the renovation of the Truman balcony at the White House; photographs and slides from Michaels' career and the products he created; and videotapes.

 

Edward Hellmich Papers

Photographs, company documents, memorabilia and artifacts relating to Edward J. Hellmich, co-founder of The Branchell Company and Hellmich Manufacturing Corp, which designed, manufactured, and sold melamine dinnerware

 

Edwin F. Bushman Papers

Collection contains correspondence, technical reports, product literature, photographs, hand drawings, technical drawings and blueprints that relate to acrylic and fiberglass production.

 

Erik Furholmen Papers

Patent information, technical reports, publicity, company data, product data; bulk relates to Chicago Molded Plastics Corporation and some of its products.

 

Eugene F. Phillips Papers

American mechanical engineer; collection includes papers, research files, samples of plastic and plastic products, and memorabilia

 

Evarts G. Loomis Company Collection of Hydraulic Sheeter Drawings

Collection consists of copies of 16 drawings, a materials list, and instructions for installation, operations and maintenance related to a hydraulic sheeter.

 

F. Reed Estabrook Papers

Contains the personal and professional papers of F. Reed Estabrook, businessman in the plastics field.

 

F. W. Gray Comb Designs

Collection consists of two scrapbooks containing templates of designs for plastic hair combs. The templates are pasted onto the pages of printed books.

 

Foster Grant Collection

Foster Grant was an American plastics molding and manufacturing firm specializing in eyewear. Originally founded in 1919 by Sam Foster to produce ladies hair accessories, the first piece of eyewear sold in 1929 at the Woolworth in Atlantic City. Collection contains company publications and sales materials including a training binder from the 1970s containing photographs and handwritten directions on how to create an epoxy mold; and photographs of die molds, Foster Grant products from World War II and sales displays.

 

Fred Conley Collection

Clippings, memorabilia, photographs of the American plastics pioneer.

 

George Friese Collection of Plastics Union Ephemera

Collection consists of union-related pieces of ephemera from George Friese’s career in the plastics industry in the Leominster, Massachusetts area.

 

George Marshall Papers

Collection contains correspondence from Wasco Chemical from 1959, photographs of plastics manufacturing facilities, plastics industry-related publications, and piping diagrams for a factory for Great American Plastics in Fitchburg, MA.

 

Irvin I. Rubin Papers

Professional papers related to the career of Plastics Hall of Fame member Irvin I. Rubin; including correspondence, company records, illustrations and other materials related to injection molding companies Robinson Plastics Corp. and Irvin I. Rubin Plastics Corp.; texts and illustrations used in Rubin's writing about injection molding; and copies of many of his publications.

 

Irwin Casper Collection of Brush Product Literature

Collection contains catalogs and product literature on various brands of hair brushes, combs, toothbrushes, household brushes, and industrial brushes from American and international companies.

 

J. Harry DuBois Papers

Collection consists of the personal and professional papers of J. Harry DuBois, covering his long career in the plastics industry. It includes scrapbooks and photograph albums of his family and world-wide travel for business, photographs and slides, and audio and film reels.

 
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