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:
Marshall, George, plastics engineer.
Inclusive Dates:
1940- 1965
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Plumbing plans.
Subject:
Engineers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Factories.
Factories -- Fires and fire prevention.
Piping.
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:
Michaels, Ed.
Inclusive Dates:
1962- 1989
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Beta (Betamax)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Hi-8.
Photographs.
Slides (photographs)
Reports.
VHS.
Videocassettes.
Subject:
Inventors.
Manufacturers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Glass fibers.
Gums and resins, Synthetic.
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastics -- Molds.
Automobiles -- Parts.
Molding materials.
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:
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.