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Papers of Mildred Hicks-Bruun
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Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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The collection is mostly reprints of Mildred Hicks-Bruun's work. The collection also includes papers and notebooks. All of the journals included in Boxes 4 and 5 include articles written by Mildred Hicks-Bruun or her husband, Johannes Bruun.
Source of acquisition--Mildred Hicks-Bruun. Method of acquisition--gift; Date of acquisition--1984.
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American Petroleum Institute Project #6 Copy 1 (progress reports, typed and written pages, black and white photos and schematics of apparatus, original graphs), undated.
Box 1
Folder 1
API Project #6 Copy 2 (progress reports), undated.
Box 1
Folder 2
Preparation of Dyes and Acids (typed and handwritten pages, some in German, contains USDA bulletin #1390), undated.
Box 1
Folder 3
Magazine and newspaper articles, undated.
Box 2
Folder 1
Lab notebooks of Johannes Bruun written in German, undated.
Box 2
Folder 2
Masters Thesis of M. Hicks (mostly handwritten), undated.
Box 2
Folder 3
PhD Thesis of Johannes Bruun, undated.
Box 2
Folder 4
Exam questions of M. Hicks, undated.
Box 2
Folder 5
Set of thesis pictures, undated.
Box 2
Folder 6
Proof and original figures for publication of M. Hicks thesis, undated.
Box 2
Folder 7
Lab book of Johannes Bruun, undated.
Box 3
Folder 1
Typed copy of Masters Thesis of M. Hicks, undated.
Box 3
Folder 2
Figures and pages from Research paper #215, undated.
Box 3
Folder 3
Copies of published PhD dissertation of J. Bruun, undated.
Box 3
Folder 4
Photos, undated.
Box 3
Folder 5
Blueprints and drawings, undated.
Box 3
Folder 6
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 2 No. 3 (2), March 1929.
Box 4
Folder 1
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 5 No. 3, September 1930.
Box 4
Folder 2
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 5 No. 4 (3), October 1930.
Box 4
Folder 3
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 6 No. 3 (2), March 1931.
Box 4
Folder 4
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 6 No. 5 (2), May 1931.
Box 4
Folder 5
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 7 No. 3 (2), September 1931.
Box 4
Folder 6
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 7 No. 5, November 1931.
Box 4
Folder 7
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research Vol. 8 No. 4 (2), April 1932.
Box 4
Folder 8
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 8. No. 5 (2), May 1932.
Box 4
Folder 9
Bureau of Standard Journals of Research: Vol. 9 No. 1, July 1932.
Box 4
Folder 10
Reprints of research papers: #311-1, undated.
Box 4
Folder 11
Reprints of research papers: #360-13, undated.
Box 4
Folder 12
Reprints of research papers: #438-22, undated.
Box 4
Folder 13
Bureau of Standards Journal of Research: Vol. 9 No. 1, July 1932.
Box 5
Folder 1
Bureau of Standards Journal of Research: Vol. 9 No. 2 (2), August 1932.
Box 5
Folder 2
Journal of Chemical Education: Vol. VIII No. 10, October 1931.
Box 5
Folder 3
Copies of research papers: #215-17, undated.
Box 5
Folder 4
Copies of research papers: #239-14, undated.
Box 5
Folder 5
Copies of research papers: #280-11, undated.
Box 5
Folder 6
Copies of research papers: #311-12, undated.
Box 5
Folder 7
Copies of research papers: #360-20, undated.
Box 5
Folder 8
Copies of research papers: #375-31, undated.
Box 5
Folder 9
Copies of research papers: #432-4, undated.
Box 5
Folder 10
Copies of research papers: #458-5, undated.
Box 5
Folder 11
Copies of research papers: #542-4, undated.
Box 5
Folder 12
13 Printers Blocks, undated.
Box 6
Folder 1
Pamphlets of careers for women, undated.
Box 6
Folder 2
4 issues of The Lamp (pamphlet for Standard Oil Co.), including 75th Anniversary Issue, December 1943-June 1944.
Box 6
Folder 3
Pamphlets and Scientific America: Atomic Testing in Nevada, America's Resources for World Leadership, Manpower Resources in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, September 1951.
Box 6
Folder 4
Reprints of Johannes H. Bruun: What is Petroleum? Methods for the Isolation and Determination of the Chemical Constituents of Petroleum, undated.
Box 7
Folder 1
Reprints of Johannes H. Bruun: Saponification Numbers of Asphaltic Petroleum Residues, undated.
Box 7
Folder 2
Reprints of Johannes H. Bruun: Capillary Flowmeters with Variable Orifices, undated.
Box 7
Folder 3
Opportunities in Research Hooker Electrochemical Co. Convenient Reflux Regulator for Laboratory Stills, undated.
Box 8
Folder 1
Isolation of 2,2 Dimethylbutane from Natural Gas and Determination of its Physical Properties, undated.
Box 8
Folder 2
The Freezing Point and Boiling Point of Propane, undated.
Box 9
Folder 1
Isolation of Pure Isometric Heranes from Natural Gas, undated.
Box 9
Folder 2
Capillary Flowmeter with Variable Orifices, undated.
Box 9
Folder 3
Pressure Regulator for Dynamic Gaseous Systems, undated.
Box 9
Folder 4
Communications: Person to Person, May 29, 1954.
Box 10
Folder 1
Naphthenic Acids from Gulf Coast Petroleum; Roy W. Harkness, J.H. Bruun, undated.
Box 10
Folder 2
Mineral Oil Oxidation; M. Hicks-Bruun, B.L. Ritz, R.E. Ledley, J.H. Bruun, undated.
Box 10
Folder 3
Conversion of Naphthenic Acids of Naphthene Hydrocarbons, Gilbert E. Goheen, undated.
Box 10
Folder 4
Reflux Regulator for Laboratory Stills; J.H. Bruun, undated.
Box 10
Folder 5
Twenty Plate Laboratory Bubble-cap Still; J.H. Bruun and Scott D. West, undated.
Box 11
Folder 1
A 100 Plate Semiautomatic Laboratory Bubble-Cap Still of Glass; J.H. Bruun and W.B. Mason Faulconer, undated.
Box 11
Folder 2
Organic Combustion apparatus for Highly Volatile and for Inflammable Liquids; JHB, WBMF, undated.
Box 11
Folder 3
Laboratory Bubble-Cap Columns of Glass, J.H. Bruun, 1936.
Box 11
Folder 4
Pipet for Titration Dark-colored Liquids in Two Phases; M. Hicks-Bruun & L.W. Claffey, undated.
Box 12
Folder 1
Apparatus and Methods used in the Separation and Identification of Some of the Chemical constituents from Petroleum. M. Hicks, PhD thesis, undated.
Box 12
Folder 2
Crops and the Chemical Industry, C.H. Fisher & J.H. Bruun, undated.
Box 13
Folder 1
Flow Divider for Gases, J.H. Bruun, undated.
Box 13
Folder 2