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  1. Card, Trade - 01:12.002

    Image depicts two men in a laboratory surrounded by glassware; the two figures are reading from scrolls; there is a circular inset vignette of Geber on the right side. The texts is printed on green background. Extensive text also located on verso.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    Trade Card for Véritable Extrait de viande Liebig [Real Liebig Meat Extract] depicting Geber on the front.
Back: Le besoin de viande
  2. Card, Trade - 01:12.004

    Main image depicts two figures in a laboratory; one is dressed in breaches and a long coat with hat in hand and is leaning on a chair. The other figure is dressed in breaches with a blue apron and is holding a glass tube. There is a circular inset vignette of Berthollet on the right side of the card. Front textsprinted on a pink feild. Extensive text also located on verso Back"L'homme d'esprit seul sait manger!"

    Record Type: Ephemera

    Trade Card for Véritable Extrait de Vande Liebig [Real Liebig Meat Extract] depicting Antoine Lavoisier and Claude Louis Berthollet
  3. Card, Trade - 01:12.006

    The main image is a reproduction of a famous engraving depicting Liebig's laboratory in Giessen in 1840; there is also a circular inset vignette of Liebig on the left side. Recto texts are printed on a green background. Extensive text is also located on verso.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    Trade Card for Véritable Extrait de viande Liebig [Real Liebig Meat Extract] depicting the laboratory of Justus von Liebig in Giessen
  4. Magazine - 2007.095

    Record Type: Ephemera

    Life Magazine with U.S. Scientists plotting Sputnik Orbit.  Headlines include "The Satellite: Why Reds got it First, What Happens Next."
  5. Postcard - 2005.019

    Blank post card depicting the DuPont Chemistry Building at the New York World's Fair in 1939. A crowd of people are depicting in silhouette in the foreground of the image on the recto. A one-cent green stamp is attached on the verso.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    The DuPont Chemistry Building, New York World's Fair, 1939
  6. Pamphlet - 2005.041

    Six-fold pamphlet. The cover depicts a woman wearing a yellow dress. The interior includes a brief history of the DuPont company, as well as the song list and cast and credits for the "Wonderful World of Chemistry"; a show performed at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City .

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "Dupont presents Wonderful World of Chemistry"
  7. Ad, Magazine - 2005.052

    Color print magazine advertisement for Monsanto Chemical Co.'s product Santocel, a silica aerogel used in insulation. The advertisement depicts Rosie the Riveter wearing a red hat, yellow gloves, and brown uniform at work and suggests that Santocel Deepfreeze units are useful in both riveting work and in household refrigerators, for when Rosie transitions to "Rosie the Housewife."

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "WHAT HAS ROSIE THE RIVETER / TO DO WITH / Fresh Strawberries / for Thanksgiving?"
  8. Ad, Magazine - 2005.056

    Black and white print advertisement for A.C. Gilbert Chemistry Sets. A boy and a male adult are depicted in two images using the laboratory glassware included in the chemistry set at both the top center and lower center of the page, respectively.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "Take / One / Giant / Step"
  9. Manual - 2005.085.002

    Carmen-Bronson Company handbook on the short history, manufacture, types of plastic, and instructions for handling different types of plastic.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    C-B Plastics Handbook
  10. Ad, Magazine - 2005.119

    Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical Company. Images symbolic of war and labor foreground a young, blonde-haired girl in a pink dress sitting on the ground looking hopefully at a freshly planted sapling.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "The Chemistry of Hope"
  11. Pamphlet - 2005.120A-C

    Set of three federal nuclear attack booklets. A: yellow cover & a circle logo with a bird symbol on reverse B: brown printed cover & a family of four people in a circle on top left of reverse cover C: black & white printed cover & with a woman on reverse

    Record Type: Ephemera

    A: "Fallout Protection, what to know and do about nuclear attack"
B: "Defense Against: Radioactive fallout on the farm"
C: "Family Food Stockpile for Survival"
  12. Ad, Magazine - 2005.136

    Black and white print magazine advertisement for DuPont's nylon tire cords. Image is centered on a family in traffic passing through the Lincoln Tunnel, for "when you need tires that assure greatest dependability."

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "Only nylon cord tires can give you / utmost safety - surest protection / against tire trouble"
  13. Ad, Magazine - 2005.139

    Color print magazine advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company. Image depicts a peaceful town on a snowy winter night.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "THE Chemistry OF PEACE"
  14. Ad, Magazine - 2006.004

    Color-printed magazine in red an black colorways, issued in Oct. of 1943. Page 177 depicts a man's face in profile next to a microscope at the top center of the page. Black & white text is printed on page 178.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "Exploring A New Universe"
  15. Magazine - 2006.117

    Record Type: Ephemera

    Newsweek featuring Glenn Seaborg in center of Atom on cover
  16. Ad, Magazine - 2006.031

    Color-printed ad for Socony-Vacuum Bug-a-boo. Illustrations of 3 mosquitos on top, and 2 Bug-a-boo bottles on lower right side of page 79.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "Bug-a-boo / With and Without D.D.T. / Kills all 9 / major pests"
  17. Ad, Magazine - 2006.034

    Black and white print magazine advertisement for E.R. Squibb & Sons featuring an image of a micrograph of penicillin, the exterior of the corporation's penicillin manufacturing building, and the factory interior. Ad located on page 7. E.R. Squibb & Sons was founded in Brooklyn, NY in 1887 as a pharmaceutical company.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    "About / Penicillin"
  18. Book, Instruction - 2006.037.001D

    An instruction manual with a green cover for using the Rotarule Model AA circular slide rule. It came with the circular slide rule, a case, and an attachable magnifying glass. Written on cover: "DIRECTIONS for using the ROTARULE / TRADE MARK / Model AA".

    Record Type: Ephemera

    Directions for using the Rotarule Model AA
  19. Book, Instruction - 2006.077A-F

    A: Chemcraft Chemical Magic (1937) B: Chemcraft Experiment Book C: Gilbert Chemistry (1936) D: Gilbert Chemical Magic (1920) E: Gilbert Glass Blowing

    Record Type: Ephemera

    Set of Chemistry Set Books
  20. Ad, Magazine - 2006.132

    Color printed ad for Dow Chemical Company. Image depicts a little girl on a see-saw over a background of a map.

    Record Type: Ephemera

    The Chemistry of Health

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