Creator:
Ptacek, Robin.
Inclusive Dates:
1945- 2011
Abstract:
Collection contains research files
written and compiled by Robin Ptacek as they relate to melamine and, most particularly,
Melmac; bulk of the materials are advertisements, correspondences, and e-bay
communications.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Research notes.
Subject:
Art historians.
Collectors.
Plastics
Melamine.
Moldings (object components)
Plastics industry and trade.
Creator:
Antique Comb Collectors Club (U.S.)
Inclusive Dates:
1985- 2001
Abstract:
Correspondence, publicity, board materials, membership lists, etc.
for the Antique Comb Collectors Club (U.S.)
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Membership lists.
Minutes (administrative records)
VHS.
Videocassettes.
Subject:
Plastics
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.
Ornamental combs -- Collectors and collecting.
Ornamental combs -- Societies and clubs.
Creator:
Antique Comb Collectors Club (U.S.)
Inclusive Dates:
1985- 2014
Abstract:
Index to club newsletters, bibliography of publications of interest, history of the club, more.
Type of Material:
Newsletters.
Bibliographies.
Indexes (reference sources)
Subject:
Plastics
Ornamental combs -- Collectors and collecting.
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1990- 2007
Abstract:
Newsletters and miscellaneous material
related to the American Plastics History Association
Type of Material:
Newsletters.
Obituaries.
Subject:
Chemical engineers.
Historians.
Plastics
Plastics -- History.
Plastics -- Societies, etc.
Creator:
Bachman, Mary.
Inclusive Dates:
1850- 1969
Abstract:
Hair combs, decorative and functional, dating from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.
Type of Material:
Combs (hair ornaments)
Subject:
Plastics
Combs -- History.
Combs -- Specimens.
Hair ornaments.
Creator:
Bachman, Mary.
Inclusive Dates:
1985- 2018
Abstract:
Files, correspondence, research notes, and other material relating to the American comb collector. Includes photocopies of material dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century.
Type of Material:
Bibliographies.
CD-ROMs.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
DVDs.
Newsletters.
Photocopies.
Photographs.
Research notes.
Slides (photographs)
VHS.
Video recordings.
Subject:
Plastics
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.
Ornamental combs -- Collectors and collecting.
Ornamental combs -- Societies and clubs.
Creator:
Bakelite Museum
Inclusive Dates:
1985- 1994
Abstract:
Printed material and a photograph from
the Bakelite Museum in England
Type of Material:
Posters.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Postcards.
Brochures.
Subject:
Plastics
Bakelite.
Plastics -- History.
Plastics -- Museums.
Creator:
Beall, Glenn.
Inclusive Dates:
1830- 1930
Abstract:
Collection of antique and modern plastic hair combs.
Type of Material:
Combs (hair ornaments)
Subject:
Plastics
Combs -- History.
Combs -- Specimens.
Hair ornaments.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1947- 1947
Abstract:
Letter from H. W. Walsh describing
visit to British Celanese Ltd.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Businessmen.
Chemical engineers.
Chemists.
Plastics
Cellulose acetate.
Plastics industry and trade -- Technological innovations.
Plastics industry and trade -- Great Britain.
Creator:
Cruse, Jen.
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Collection of plastic hair combs
Type of Material:
Combs (hair ornaments)
Subject:
Plastics
Hair ornaments.
Combs -- History.
Creator:
Green, Belva
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Papers of the author, editor and comb
collector.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Brochures.
Combs (hair ornaments)
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Authors.
Women collectors.
Plastics
Ornamental combs.
Plastics -- History.
Plastic jewelry.
Plastics -- Research.
Creator:
Halkett, James A. E.
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Artifacts and a few papers related to plastics engineer James A. E. Halkett.
Type of Material:
Artifacts.
Subject:
Chemical engineers.
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Creator:
Herlihy, Margaret Kimball.
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Manuscript of book on hair combs, with related photographs
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Subject:
Plastics
Hair ornaments -- History.
Ornamental combs -- History.
Creator:
Maddock, Bruce H.
Inclusive Dates:
1943- 1988
Abstract:
Personal patents, writings, and
schematics from Union Carbide Plastics Division employee Bruce H. Maddock.
Type of Material:
Patents.
Technical drawings.
Typescripts.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Subject:
Plastics
Plastics -- Extrusion.
Plastics industry and trade.
Thermoplastics.
Creator:
Miller, Betty Albertus, 1933-2019.
Inclusive Dates:
1829- 2020
Abstract:
Files, correspondence, photographs, printed material, posters, and artifacts (hair combs)
relating to Betty Miller, the Miller Hair Comb Museum, and the Antique Comb Collectors Club International (AC3I)
Type of Material:
Combs (hair ornaments)
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Magazines (periodicals)
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Celluloid (cellulosic)
Ivory (material)
Jet (coal)
Tortoise-shell.
Administrative records.
Minutes (administrative records)
CD-ROMs.
Museum records.
Research notes.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Massachusetts -- Leominster.
Plastics
Ornamental combs -- History.
Ornamental combs -- Specimens.
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.
Celluloid.
Tortoiseshell.
Ivory.
Jet (Precious stone)
Clothing and dress.
Material culture.
Ornamental combs -- Societies and clubs.
Small museums -- Alaska.
Creator:
Morgan, John.
Inclusive Dates:
1900- 1945
Abstract:
Collection of casein plastic
artifacts
Type of Material:
Artifacts (object genre)
Casein plastic.
Subject:
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastic jewelry.
Creator:
Amorosi family.
Inclusive Dates:
1930- 1940
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Photographs.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Combs.
Ornamental combs.
Mirrors -- Frames.
Plastics industry and trade.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1912- 2010
Abstract:
Collection contains correspondence, printed material, and technical reports related
to the Bakelite Corporation.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Booklets.
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Newsletters.
Technical reports.
Subject:
The Bakelite jewelry book -- Corinne Davidov and Ginny Redington Dawes.
Trefoil.
Wyandotte Peace Pipe.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Bakelite -- History.
Plastics industry and trade.
Creator:
Belcher, Samuel L., 1933-
Inclusive Dates:
1991- 2008
Abstract:
Biographical material, patent information, and product data related to Samuel Belcher's innovations in blow molding.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Brochures.
CD-ROMs.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Design patents.
Drawings (visual works)
DVDs.
Photographs.
Videotapes.
Subject:
Engineers.
Entrepreneurs.
Inventors.
Plastics
Industrial Design
Engineers -- United States.
Blow Molding.
Plastics in packaging.
Plastics industry and trade -- United States.
Plastics machinery industry -- United States.
Plastics machinery.
Plastics industry and trade -- Equipment and supplies.
Polyethylene terephthalate.
Creator:
Blitz, Saul.
Inclusive Dates:
1938- 1961
Abstract:
Collection contains copies of patents from the
United States Patent Office for processes, materials and machinery used in creating, shaping & molding
plastic; also one folder of correspondence from Arthur Cyr to Saul Blitz about blow molding
patents.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Patents.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Inventors.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Blow molding.
Injection molding of plastics.
Plastics industry and trade.