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Creator:
Griffiths, Alan (Plastics engineer and designer)
Inclusive Dates:
1950-2000
Abstract:
Collection of plastic containers for soap
Type of Material:
Artifacts (object genre)
Plastic (material)
Soap boxes (container for personal grooming)
Subject:
Industrial Design
Plastics
Industrial design.
Plastic containers.
Plastics industry and trade.
Product design.

Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1990-2007
Abstract:
Newsletters and miscellaneous material related to the American Plastics History Association
Type of Material:
Newsletters.
Obituaries.
Subject:
Chemical engineers.
Historians.
Plastics
Plastics -- History.
Plastics -- Societies, etc.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Amorosi family.
Inclusive Dates:
1930-1940
Abstract:
Collection contains pencil drawings of comb designs presumably drawn by George and/or Samuel Amorosi; bound volume of photopies of sketches; and 2 photographs, of George Amorosi and Samuel Amorosi.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Photographs.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Combs.
Ornamental combs.
Mirrors -- Frames.
Plastics industry and trade.

Creator:
Antique Comb Collectors Club (U.S.)
Inclusive Dates:
1985-2014
Abstract:
Index to club newsletters, bibliography of publications of interest, history of the club, more.
Type of Material:
Newsletters.
Bibliographies.
Indexes (reference sources)
Subject:
Plastics
Ornamental combs -- Collectors and collecting.
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.

Creator:
Antique Comb Collectors Club (U.S.)
Inclusive Dates:
1985-2001
Abstract:
Correspondence, publicity, board materials, membership lists, etc. for the Antique Comb Collectors Club (U.S.)
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Membership lists.
Minutes (administrative records)
VHS.
Videocassettes.
Subject:
Plastics
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.
Ornamental combs -- Collectors and collecting.
Ornamental combs -- Societies and clubs.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Winfield, Armand G.
Inclusive Dates:
1957-1991
Abstract:
Collection contains the professional and personal papers of Armand G. Winfield. It focuses on the client files of Winfield's consulting company, which he formed in 1964.
Type of Material:
Catalogs (documents)
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Research notes.
Technical reports.
Technical drawings.
VHS.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Subject:
Colombia.
Santa Fe (N.M.).
Businessmen.
Consultants.
Inventors.
Business and Industry
Industrial Design
Plastics
Antiques.
Plastics in building.
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastics -- Research.
Plastics as art material.

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1912-2010
Abstract:
Collection contains correspondence, printed material, and technical reports related to the Bakelite Corporation.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Booklets.
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Newsletters.
Technical reports.
Subject:
The Bakelite jewelry book -- Corinne Davidov and Ginny Redington Dawes.
Trefoil.
Wyandotte Peace Pipe.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Bakelite -- History.
Plastics industry and trade.

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bakelite Museum
Inclusive Dates:
1985-1994
Abstract:
Printed material and a photograph from the Bakelite Museum in England
Type of Material:
Posters.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Postcards.
Brochures.
Subject:
Plastics
Bakelite.
Plastics -- History.
Plastics -- Museums.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1969-1974
Abstract:
Color photographs showing Barbie and Francie dolls in various outfits.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Photography
Plastics
Popular culture
Barbie dolls -- 1970-1980.
Fashion.
Girls in popular culture -- United States.
Mod culture (Subculture)
Toys -- Design and construction.
Toy industry -- United States.
Women in popular culture -- United States.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Green, Belva
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Papers of the author, editor and comb collector.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Brochures.
Combs (hair ornaments)
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Authors.
Women collectors.
Plastics
Ornamental combs.
Plastics -- History.
Plastic jewelry.
Plastics -- Research.

11.

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.

12.

Collection Title:
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.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bolta Products.
Inclusive Dates:
1971-1977
Abstract:
Collection includes product literature and advertisements for Boltaware, and blueprints for pieces of Boltaware.
Type of Material:
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Brochures.
Promotional materials.
Advertisements.
Subject:
Business and Industry
Plastics
Plastics in household appliances.
Plastics in interior decoration.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1947-1947
Abstract:
Letter from H. W. Walsh describing visit to British Celanese Ltd.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Businessmen.
Chemical engineers.
Chemists.
Plastics
Cellulose acetate.
Plastics industry and trade -- Technological innovations.
Plastics industry and trade -- Great Britain.

15.

Collection Title:
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.

16.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Hill, Claude.
Inclusive Dates:
1965-1995
Abstract:
Collection consists largely of slides, and three filmstrips, of plastic applications and industrial processes related to plastics collected by Claude Hill during his career as a professor of Plastics Engineering Technology, 1965-1995.
Type of Material:
Slides (photographs)
Filmstrips.
Subject:
Inventors.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Thermosetting composites.
Thermoplastics.
Injection molding of plastics.
Plastics as art material.
Plastics in automobiles.
Plastics in boatbuilding.
Plastics in building.
Plastics in electric engineering.
Plastics in household appliances.
Plastics in medicine
Plastics in packaging.
Plastics -- Extrusion.
Plastics -- Calendering
Gums and resins.

17.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Creaden, Dave.
Inclusive Dates:
1963-1965
Abstract:
Administrative materials, correspondence, and design materials of Dave Creaden relating to his work on the Stereo 8 cartridge at Lear Jet Corporation
Type of Material:
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Design drawings.
Financial records.
Journals (accounts)
Correspondence.
Research notes.
Subject:
Engineers.
Plastics
Industrial design
Automobiles -- Audio equipment.
Engineering design.
Magnetic recorders and recording -- Installation in automobiles.
Plastics.
Product design.

18.

Collection Title:
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.

19.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Hellmich, Edward J.
Inclusive Dates:
1953-1958
Abstract:
Photographs, company documents, memorabilia and artifacts relating to Edward J. Hellmich, co-founder of The Branchell Company and Hellmich Manufacturing Corp, which designed, manufactured, and sold melamine dinnerware
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Legal documents.
Photographs.
Subject:
Puerto Rico.
Zimmer, Gregory R., 1947 -- Melmac dinnerware.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Flatware -- Specimens.
Melamine.
Plastics -- History.
Plastics -- Marketing.
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastic tableware.
Plastic tableware -- Specimens.

20.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bushman, Edwin F.
Inclusive Dates:
1946-1992
Abstract:
Collection contains correspondence, technical reports, product literature, photographs, hand drawings, technical drawings and blueprints that relate to acrylic and fiberglass production.
Type of Material:
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Newsletters.
Technical reports.
Interviews.
Subject:
Engineers.
Inventors.
Industrial Designers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Armored vehicles, Military -- Safety appliances.
Plastics industry and trade -- Technological innovations.
Plastics industry and trade -- United States -- History.