Call Number:

008

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

0.1 linear feet (1 folder.)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Item Description, Andrea Allen Collection, 2020, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Date:

2020

Creator:

Allen, Andrea, active 21st century

Form:

Archival materials and Photographs

Abstract:

Letter of correspondence, photograph, and memorial service program collected by Andrea Allen, the daughter of American chemist and Perkin-Elmer Corporation employee Thomas J. Porro.

The Andrea Allen Collection consists of three items collected by Andrea Allen, the daughter of American chemist and longtime Perkin-Elmer Corporation employee Thomas J. Porro. The collection contains a handwritten letter to "Hillary," which is written on stationary belonging to Thomas J. Porro. It also includes a black and white photograph from the 1960s of Richard Perkin and Kurt Wilde of Perkin-Elmer in a company laboratory located at the firm's European branch in Bodensee, Germany. Also included is a memorial service program for the late American organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward, who Andrea Allen states was an advisor to her late father when he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The letter also refers to two additional Perkin-Elmer marketing photographs featuring Thomas J. Porro that Andrea Allen could not locate at the time of writing the letter.