Creator:
Milgrom, Jack.
Inclusive Dates:
1958- 2005
Abstract:
Collection consists largely of published material
and reports collected and written by Jack Milgrom on the subjects of plastics in general, and specifically
on the use of plastics in packaging and the recycling of plastics, as well as utility scrap and recycling in the auto
industry.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Publications.
Reports.
Scrapbooks.
Technical reports.
Subject:
Researchers.
Consultants.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Beverage containers.
Conservation of natural resources.
Container industry.
Food -- Packaging.
Packaging.
Plastics in packaging.
Plastics industry and trade.
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Recycling industry.
Biodegradable plastics.
Creator:
Ingersoll, Robert.
Inclusive Dates:
1949- 1954
Abstract:
Design work and miscellaneous biographical material, from the American industrial designer.
Type of Material:
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Essays.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Sketches.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Industrial Design
Industrial design -- United States.
Industrial designers -- United States.
Packaging -- Design.
Creator:
Myers, C. Stowe (Charles Stowe).
Inclusive Dates:
1930- 1995
Abstract:
American industrial designer. Correspondence-subject files,
memorabilia, photographs, audio and video recordings, and slides.
Type of Material:
Brochures.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Posters.
Renderings (drawings)
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Industrial Design
Industrial design -- United States.
Industrial designers -- United States.
Packaging -- Design.
Creator:
Chinn, Harry G.
Inclusive Dates:
1952- 1967
Abstract:
Papers of plastics engineer Harry G. Chinn.
Type of Material:
Patents.
Research notes.
Technical reports.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Specimens.
Periodicals.
Subject:
United States.
Inventors.
Physicists.
Plastics -- Analysis
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastic coating.
Plastic films.
Plastics.
Plastics in packaging.
Creator:
Gerard Designs.
Inclusive Dates:
1972- 1997
Abstract:
Collection consists of drawings of
molds created by Gerard Designs for various companies in the plastics and other
industries. Most drawings contain initials of Robert McGee.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Molds (shaping tools)
Subject:
Industrial Design
Plastics
Plastics in packaging.
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastics -- Molds.
Creator:
Steinhilber, Budd
Inclusive Dates:
1942- 2007
Abstract:
Papers of the American industrial designer and environmental activist.
Collection includes slides and high quality digital photos on CD-ROM. Clients and products represented span more
than sixty years and include Tucker Corporation (the Tucker automobile, 1940s), Greyhound, Bell Aircraft (personal
helicopter, 1946), Antioch College (signs, catalogs, programs, 1950s), General Electric (shipping cartons, 1962),
Lockheed (data entry console, 1967), MultMode Transit System (electric car, 1967), Fresno Air Terminal (signage, 1970s),
Atari (exhibit booth and staging, 1970s-80s), Pabst (can and bottle designs, 1984), several California vineyards
(labels and packaging, 1980s), Christen Industries (biplane, 1977), and dozens more.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Slides (photographs)
Digital images.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Industrial Design
Art, American -- 20th century.
Communication in design.
Industrial design -- United States.
Ecological engineering.
Graphic arts.
Graphic design (Typography)
Industrial designers -- United States.
New products -- Design
Packaging -- Design
Product engineering
Sustainable engineering.
Tucker automobile.
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:
McDonald, Joseph.
Inclusive Dates:
1930- 1989
Abstract:
Collection contains copies of patents
for plastic food and beverage containers collected by Joseph McDonald from 1951 to 1989,
in the course of his work for Sweetheart Plastics, Inc. and a selection of technical
offprints and reports.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Notes (documents)
Reports.
Patents.
Subject:
Engineers.
Inventors.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Patents.
Beverage containers.
Food containers.
Plastic containers.
Plastics -- Extrusion.
Plastics in packaging.
Styrene.
Thermoplastics.
Plastics machinery.
Creator:
Hill, Claude.
Inclusive Dates:
1965- 1995
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Slides (photographs)
Filmstrips.
Subject:
Inventors.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Thermosetting composites.
Thermoplastics.
Injection molding of plastics.
Plastics as art material.
Plastics in automobiles.
Plastics in boatbuilding.
Plastics in building.
Plastics in electric engineering.
Plastics in household appliances.
Plastics in medicine
Plastics in packaging.
Plastics -- Extrusion.
Plastics -- Calendering
Gums and resins.