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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Sabath, Gloria.
Inclusive Dates:
1971-1998
Abstract:
Operational documents and promotional materials from a McDonald's franchise location owned by Gloria and Fred Sabath in Carson, California
Type of Material:
Business records.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Certificates.
Diplomas.
Training manuals.
Cafeteria trays.
Tote bags.
Catalogs (documents)
Promotional materials.
Subject:
Plastics
Business and industry
Popular culture
Franchises (Retail trade)
Fast food restaurants.
Restaurant management.
Chain restaurants.
Restaurants -- Marketing.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Seibel, Ben.
Inclusive Dates:
1973-1983
Abstract:
American industrial designer, particularly of tableware. Collection includes catalogs, design sketches, scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, and a considerable number of items of table- and kitchen-ware (china, metal, stoneware, plaster, steel, glass, wood).
Type of Material:
Catalogs (documents)
Correspondence.
Design drawings.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Sketches.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Plastics
Industrial Design
Flatware -- Design.
Kitchen utensils -- Design.
Industrial design -- United States.
Industrial design -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial designers -- United States.
Tableware -- Design.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Standard Comb
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Three undated photographs of the exterior of the Standard Comb building (later Standard Pyroxoloid).
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Chemical engineers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastics plants.

Creator:
Standard Pyroxoloid Corp. (Leominster, Mass.)
Inclusive Dates:
1946-1972
Abstract:
Collection contains color formulas and product compositions/formulas in the form of typed reports and on 5 x 8" index cards; records of the Standard Pyroxoloid Company and Stanaloid Corporation; and 38 photographs of an unidentified manufacturing facility, date stamped January 16, 1958 (13 are duplicates).
Type of Material:
Reports.
Photographs.
Business records.
Subject:
Business and Industry
Plastics
Celluloid.
Chemical plants.
Factories.
Nitrocellulose.
Plastics industry and trade.
Product formulas.
Pyralin.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Standard Tool (Leominster, Mass.)
Inclusive Dates:
1940-1969
Abstract:
This collection contains drawings of comb designs created for different companies; publications; and photographic prints and negatives of molds, machinery, factory interiors and building exteriors.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Photographs.
Publications.
Negatives (photographs)
Subject:
Manufacturing.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastics -- Molds.
Combs.

Creator:
Syracuse Ornamental Company
Inclusive Dates:
1908-2005
Abstract:
Syracuse Ornamental Company (Syroco) American manufacturing company, founded in 1890 and based in Syracuse, New York, was best known for molded wood-pulp interior decorations and gift and novelty items that resembled hand-carving. Later they integrated polymers into their molding process and then moved entirely into plastics production. Collection contains illustrated sales catalogues spanning most of the company’s existence and annual reports from the later period after it was sold to non-Syracuse corporations.
Type of Material:
Annual reports.
Catalogs (documents)
Promotional materials.
Subject:
Plastics
Industrial Design
New York State
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastics in interior decoration.
Plastic novelties.
Molding (Plastics)
Moldings -- Catalogs.
Wooden novelties.