Creator:
Hyatt, John W. (John Wesley), 1837-1920.
Inclusive Dates:
1869- 1945
Abstract:
Collection consists of the Executive
Committee Meeting Minutes of the Celluloid Company, 1890 to 1905, two bound volumes of
patents obtained by John Wesley Hyatt, including one for the first celluloid billiard
ball and several other patents for billiard ball coatings and knife-handles; a booklet
on Hyatt's acceptance of the Perkin Medal, 1914; six photographic
portraits; and a relief sculpture of the John Wesley Hyatt commemorative award.
Type of Material:
Minutes (administrative records)
Patents.
Programs (documents)
Photographs.
Subject:
Manufacturers.
Inventors.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Celluloid.
Billiards -- Equipment and supplies.
Patents.
Plastics industry and trade.
Creator:
DuBois, J. Harry (John Harry), 1903-
Inclusive Dates:
1940- 1993
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Negatives (photographs)
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Marshalltown (Iowa)
Businessmen.
Industrialists.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Bakelite -- History.
Industrialization -- India.
Plastics industry and trade.
Creator:
Kretzschmar, John.
Inclusive Dates:
2006- 2018
Abstract:
Clippings, correspondence, printed material relating to American engineer and to plastics generally.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Journals (periodicals)
Newsletters.
Research notes.
Subject:
Engineers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Engineers -- United States.
Plastics -- Societies, etc.
Plastics industry and trade -- Great Britain.
Plastics industry and trade -- United States.
Polyethylene -- History.