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1.

Collection Title:
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.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Hill, Jack E.
Inclusive Dates:
1967-1974
Abstract:
Correspondence, technical reports, biographical material of the American plastics engineer
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Articles of incorporation.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Technical reports.
Subject:
Engineers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Blow molding.
Plastic toys.
Plastics -- History.
Plastics -- Marketing.
Plastics -- Molding.
Plastics industry and trade.
Thermoforming.

3.

Collection Title:
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.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Deferiet, James.
Inclusive Dates:
1830-1830
Abstract:
Letter from Deferiet to Juston Butterfield of Watertown, N.Y.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Watertown (N.Y.) -- History.
New York State
Business and Industry
Business enterprises -- New York (State) -- Watertown.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Gould, Jay, 1836-1892.
Inclusive Dates:
1866-1881
Abstract:
Papers of the American financier, railroad entrepreneur. Correspondence, among which is a letter to N.Y. Governor John Thompson Hoffman concerning a bill which would amend an Act enabling towns and municipalities to bond in favor of railroad corporations.
Type of Material:
Letters (correspondence)
Subject:
Capitalists and financiers.
Entrepreneurs.
Business and Industry
Capitalists and financiers -- United States.
Entrepreneurs -- United States.
Municipal bonds -- Law and legislation.
Railroads -- Political aspects -- New York (State)

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Commins, Jedediah D.
Inclusive Dates:
1808-1829
Abstract:
Papers, mostly financial, illustrating the business activities of Jedediah Commins (Commins) in Central New York.
Type of Material:
Agreements.
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Ledgers (account books)
Legal instruments.
Promises to pay.
Receipts (financial records)
Subject:
Lima (N.Y.) -- History.
Lima (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Livonia (N.Y.) -- History.
Business and Industry
New York State
Business enterprises -- Lima (N.Y.) -- 19th century.
Business enterprises -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History.

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Wheeler, John C.
Inclusive Dates:
1825-1825
Abstract:
Account book for a 19th century Oxford, Pennsylvania dealer in carpets and woollen goods.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Subject:
Oxford (Pa.) -- History.
Merchants.
Business and Industry
Merchants -- Pennsylvania.
Rug and carpet industry -- United States -- History.

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Archbold, John Dana
Inclusive Dates:
1929-1962
Abstract:
John Dana Archbold (1910-1993), philanthropist and trustee emeritus of Syracuse University. The contents consist of personal and business correspondence, as well as research notes and manuscripts on Archbold family genealogy and the life and career of John Dana's maternal grandfather, John Dustin Archbold (1848-1916.)
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts for publication.
Patents.
Research notes.
Subject:
Businessmen.
Business and Industry
New York State
Science and medicine
Business -- New York (State)
Patent laws and legislation -- United States.
Diesel motors -- Drawings.
Marine diesel motors.
Marine engineering.
Photography -- Printing processes -- Patents.
New business enterprises -- Finance.
Patent law and legislation.
Archbold family -- Genealogy
Petroleum industry and trade -- United States.
Cooking, American.
Rotary combustion engines.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Goodwin, John, fl. 1843-1870.
Inclusive Dates:
1843-1888
Abstract:
Account book, one volume, of what appears to be a lumber and hardware business, probably located in East Corinth, Vermont. There are also a few loose papers and one letter.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Correspondence.
Receipts (financial records)
Subject:
Corinth, Vt. -- History.
Merchants.
Business and Industry
Merchants -- Vermont.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Knox, John Jay, 1828-1892.
Inclusive Dates:
1870-1894
Abstract:
Papers of the American banker, author, politician. Knox was president of the National Bank of the Republic. Personal and business correspondence reflecting the esteem with which Knox was held for his understanding of fiscal policy among economists (Francis M. Burdick, J. L. Laughlin, Horace White), journalists (H. C. Bowen, R. R. Bowker, William B. Dana, L. S. Metcalf), and politicians (A. S. Hewitt, John R. McPherson, R. C. Winthrop).
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Bankers.
Business and Industry
Bankers -- United States.
Banks and banking -- United States.
Finance, Public -- United States.

11.

Collection Title:
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.

12.

Collection Title:
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.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Young, John Orr, 1886-
Inclusive Dates:
1907-1965
Abstract:
Papers of the American advertising executive. Includes manuscript of an article; published material by Young; correspondence, 1951-1952; and personal miscellany.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts (document genre)
Photoprints.
Correspondence.
Subject:
Advertising.
Business and Industry
Advertising agencies -- United States.

14.

Collection Title:
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:
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.

16.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Forman, Joshua, 1777-1849
Inclusive Dates:
1821-1821
Abstract:
Two letters sent to the Joshua Forman, a nineteenth-century politician and businessman, and one of the founders of Syracuse.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Industries.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Politicians.
Lawyers.
Businessmen.
Business and Industry
New York State
Salt industry and trade -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.