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:
DeBell, John M.
Inclusive Dates:
1924- 1986
Abstract:
Professional papers related to the
career of Plastics Hall of Fame member John M. DeBell; including biographical material
and memorabilia, correspondence, company records,technical reports, and other materials
related to DeBell's work for the U.S. military and DeBell and Richardson.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Technical reports.
Subject:
Engineers.
Inventors.
Businessmen.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade -- Technological innovations.
Plastics industry and trade -- United States -- History.
Injection molding of plastics.
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.