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Records of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association

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Call Number:
01
Repository:
Science History Institute Archives
Extent:
2.4 linear feet (7 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Records of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, 1876-1996, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1872-1996 (inclusive) and 1876-1908 (bulk)
Creator:
American Chemistry Council, Chemical Manufacturers Association (U.S.), and Manufacturing Chemists' Association (U.S.)
Form:
Archival materials and Photographs
Abstract:
The Records of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association consist of administrative materials, correspondence, and historical documents originally created and maintained by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association. The records were later maintained by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association's successors, the Chemical Manufacturers Association, and the American Chemistry Council, Incorporated.

The Manufacturing Chemists' Association was an industry trade association for American chemical companies. The Manufacturing Chemist's Association was formed in 1872 and initially concerned itself with matters relating to product standards and quality. Later, the association became involved in matters relating to chemical safety and to the environment.

In 1878, the Association began to take an active stand on behalf of protectionist forces in the struggle waged over the issue of free trade. It was the Association's contention that free trade would give the better established European chemical manufacturers of England, France, and Germany an unfair advantage over the still-developing United States companies. In time, the Manufacturing Chemists' Association became so well versed in tariffs and trade-related matters that their members came to be relied upon by the United States Congress as expert advisors.

During World War I, many prominent Manufacturing Chemists' Association members were a part of the Chemical Alliance. The Chemical Alliance worked to ensure that substitute sources could be found for vital chemicals previously supplied by Germany.

The Manufacturing Chemists' Association became the Chemical Manufacturers Association in 1979. In 2000, the Association became The American Chemistry Council, Incorporated. The American Chemistry Council, Incorporated is presently active and represents more than 190 chemical companies.

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Records of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Records of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association is a fragmentary collection. The bulk of the association's early records are believed to have been lost in a fire. What remains, aside from the letter books and one volume of minutes, is mostly related to several attempts to gather historical documents to be used for an official history of the association. Attempts made by association secretaries in 1921 (in preparation for the Manufacturing Chemists' Association 50th Anniversary) and 1947 (75th Anniversary) both ended in failure. In 1972, the Manufacturing Chemists' Association was able to issue a commemorative volume honoring their Centennial.

These records contain correspondence and documentation relating to all three attempts. The records are arranged into the following four series:

  1. Correspondence and Letter Books
  2. Administrative
  3. Material Gathered for an Organizational History
  4. Manufacturing Chemists' Association Addenda

The Records of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association were donated to the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) by the American Chemistry Council in 2001.

The Records of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association were processed by Andrew Mangravite in 2003. This finding aid was edited by Andrew Mangravite in 2017 and by Birch Mezzaroba in April 2022.

The Records of Chemical Trade Associations are preserved at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Publisher
Science History Institute Archives
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid created by Andrew Mangravite and encoded into EAD by Birch Mezzaroba.
Finding Aid Date
2003
Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions on the materials and the collection is open to the public.

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The Science History Institute holds copyright to the Records of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association. The researcher assumes full responsibility for all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Collection Inventory

Series Description

Arranged in its original order, this series consists of letter books of correspondence by members of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association. The files in this series contain pro forma letters and letters concerning tariff legislation, publications, and political and technical matters.

Letter Book - 303 Pages with Some Torn Out - (This letter book contains mostly pro-forma correspondence regarding meetings, committee appointments, etc. There is also some correspondence regarding tariff legislation and an early "mission statement" on page 81.), 1876-1882.
Box 1 Folder 1
Letter Book (497 pages but only 180 of which have been used. Mostly for pro forma and some technical and political matters.), 1882-1889.
Box 1 Folder 2
Letter Book (300 pages of mostly typed letters. The reproductions on pages 16-69 are badly faded. The contents are mostly pro-forma but with some materials relating to tariff and protectionist issues.), 1897-1902.
Box 1 Folder 3
Letter Book (490 pages of which pages 1-29 were actually used. Mostly concerned with the publication and sale of chemical tables published by the association.), 1905-1908.
Box 1 Folder 4

Series Description

Arranged in its original order, this series consists of administrative documents from the Manufacturing Chemists' Association. The contents of this file mostly contain meeting minutes. Amendments to the Association's constitution and by-laws and a letter are also preserved here.

Minutes of Meetings (Contains a list of uniform description terms as approved by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, amendments to Constitution and By-Laws, information concerning deliberations of the Tariff Board, Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings, 1910-1911 and a letter.), 1906-1911.
Box 1 Folder 5

Series Description

Arranged in its original order, this series makes up the bulk of the Records of the Manufacturing Chemist's Association. The materials in this series were collected to write a history of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, which was ultimately written in 1972 as part of the Association's Centennial. Many of the contents of these files were gathered by John I. Tierney and Warren N. Watson, secretaries of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association.

The contents of this series are arranged into the following three sub-series:

  1. Documents and Correspondence
  2. Newspapers
  3. Photographs
Sub-series Descripion

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains administrative documents and correspondence created by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association. The contents of these files include publications, reports, member information, and correspondence relating to the Association.

"Drugs and Chemicals" - list of products created for tariff legislation purposes (A handwritten note by Henry Bower apparently refers to it as a "Tariff brief" and a typed note by William Bower dated August 14, 1924, opines that the document was created by a committee.), 1872 February.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 1
"Constitution and By-Laws of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association of the United States", 1873 May 28.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 2
Report: "What Is Oil of Vitriol?" (This report is referred to by William Bower as being the first significant activity done by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association.), 1875.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 3
"Value of Degrees Baume Given by Different Authors" - Chart Compiled by C. F. Chandler and F. G. Wiechmann, 1881.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 4
"Sulfuric Acid Tables", 1882.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 5
"Letter to the Honorary Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury, from the Manufacturing Chemists' Association of the United States" (Including a pamphlet reprint of a letter by Henry Bower setting forth the Association's arguments in favor of protection, with handwritten annotations.), 1883 June.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 6
"Oil of Vitriol Table", 1886.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 7
"Constitution and By-Laws", 1893 November.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 8
"Sulphuric Acid" - Table, 1904.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 9
"Report of the Executive Committee of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association of the United States Submitted at Its Annual Meeting, June 18, 1912"(Includes a marked "corrected copy" dealing with matters relating to a tariff bill and the safe transport of chemicals.), 1912 June 18.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 10
"Standard Specifications for Laboratory Apparatus Adopted by the Manufacturing Chemists' Association of the United States - Part I Graduates and Thermometers", 1922.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 11
"Chemicals in Defense Background Memorandum", 1952 May-June.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 12
"Sulphuric Acid" - Table by Arthur H. Elliott, undated.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 13
Unidentified Table, undated.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 14
Semi-Annual Meeting Announcement, 1881.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 15
Annual Meeting Announcement, 1882.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 16
Semi-Annual Meeting Announcement, 1882.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 17
"Program 67th Annual Meeting of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association of the United States", 1939 June 1-2.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 18
"Diamond Jubilee 75th Annual Meeting of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association of the United States" - Program (Includes lists of past presidents and member companies and a chronology of American chemical progress.), 1947.
Box 2 Folder 1 Object 19
Typescript of a Letter dated January 21, 1878 from Alexander H. Jones, Chairman of Committee on Tariff, to Honorable Fernando Wood, Member of Congress, Chairman of Committee on Ways and Means (The document that got Manufacturing Chemists' Association started in "the tariff business."), 1878.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 1
Letter from Wharton Barker, Chairman of the Industrial League to Thomas S. Harrison, President of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association (Discusses the need for cooperation and the raising of funds to combat free trade forces.), 1883.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 2
Letter from Gustavus Pils (?) to Henry Bower discussing the specific gravity of sulfuric acid and a slip with his calculations, 1883.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 3
Letters between W. H. Bower and S. W. Wilder regarding the handling of Manufacturing Chemists' Association funds, 1907.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 4
Letter to Henry Howard, Chairman of Executive Committee, regarding committee luncheon vouchers, 1907.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 5
Letter to John I. Tierney, Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association, from William H. Bower discussing early history of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, 1922.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 6
Letter from S. C. Kelton, Secretary of Rohm and Haas Company to W. N. Watson, Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association, correcting a published misstatement concerning the date of the founding of the Lennig Company, 1939.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 7
Letters between M. F. Crass, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association, and William H. Bower concerning Bower's work on the establishment of the standard for the United States gallon, 1939.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 8
Letters between W. N. Watson, Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association, and William H. Bower concerning a speech delivered by Congressman James M. Beck of Pennsylvania on the subject of tariffs in 1929 (A copy of the speech is included.), 1940.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 9
Letter from W. N. Watson, Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association, to members of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association Executive Committee concerning changes in the makeup of the Committee between 1925 and 1935, 1940.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 10
Letters between W. N. Watson, Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association, and William H. Bower concerning a letter written to Bower's father in 1893 by Edward W. Pearce, then Recording Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association, thanking him for his work on the tariff issue (A typed copy of Pearce's letter is included.), 1940.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 11
Letter from William Haynes, Editor of The History Committee, Incorporated, to W. N. Watson, Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association concerning a chapter of a work in progress (The text of the chapter, "Foreign Cartels and Trusts," which concerns post World War I European protectionist policies and the chemical industry, is included.), 1946.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 12
Letters concerning a proposed pamphlet to honor the 75th Anniversary of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, 1947.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 13
Form letter sent to company executives by W. N. Watson, Secretary of Manufacturing Chemists' Association, requesting information on when their firms joined the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, 1947.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 14
Letters concerning the status of Charles Lennig and Company as an independent entity (Lennig was a founding member of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association.), 1947.
Box 2 Folder 2 Object 15
History of the Chemical Industry - Thumbnail Sketches of Prominent Chemical Manufacturers (Includes some of the Charter Members of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association and letters of thanks to companies that contributed information.), 1925.
Box 2 Folder 3
Officers and Directors, 1872 to Date (1963) - Lists (Some are annotated.), 1883, 1909, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1962, undated.
Box 2 Folder 4
Founding of Member Firms and Date of Joining Manufacturing Chemists' Association - Annotated Lists and Correspondence (Mostly regarding attempts to "grandfather" membership to claim Charter Member status.), 1947.
Box 2 Folder 5
The Chemical Alliance, Incorporated - Organization, Charter, By-Laws and Membership (Includes Code of Fair Competition, correspondence, and minutes 1940-1947.), 1918, 1934-1936, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1953.
Box 2 Folder 6
History Project-1 - Articles Relating to the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, 1951, 1958, 1967.
Box 3 Folder 1
History Project-2 - Correspondence (Mostly requests to companies and individuals for information relating to the two proposed but unwritten Manufacturing Chemists' Association histories. Also includes handwritten notes and materials relating to the histories of the member companies.), 1922-1926, 1939, undated .
Box 3 Folder 2
History Project-3 - Rough Drafts of Various Short Histories of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association (Including "Then and Now," delivered as keynote address at the 75th Anniversary Meeting and supporting correspondence and documentation.), undated.
Box 3 Folder 3
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series consists of newspapers containing articles relating to the Manufacturing Chemists' Association. The articles in these newspapers concern Manufacturing Chemists' Association meetings and an agreement between chemical companies and the federal government. Some of the newspapers are included in duplicate.

The Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, 50th Anniversary Issue (Contains a brief account of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association history written by John I. Tierney.), 1922 March 28.
Box 4 Folder 1
Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, Centennial Issue - Supplement on History of Chemical Industry in the United States (Mention made of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association on page 30.), 1971 October 18.
Box 4 Folder 2a
Journal of Commerce - Front page story announcing agreement between federal government and chemical companies on cautionary labels, 1935 June 7.
Box 4 Folder 2b
Journal of Commerce, Chemical Annual (Contains coverage of Manufacturing Chemists' Association Meeting and features a front-page story on the keynote address.), 1950 June 20.
Box 4 Folder 3a
Journal of Commerce - Highlight's Manufacturing Chemists' Association 86th Annual Meeting (With a cover story by General John E. Hull, then-President of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, on business' need to influence government legislation.), 1958 June 12.
Box 4 Folder 3b
Duplicate Copies of Materials in Box 4 Folder 2a (Supplement only) and Box 4 Folder 3a, 1950 June 20 and 1971 October 18 .
Box 4 Folder 4
Sub-series Description

This sub-series contains photographs that were included in the Manufacturing Chemists' Association volume, MCA 1872-1972: A Centennial History. The photographs are arranged in the order that they appear in the volume.

Pfizer Company Accounts Book from the Year 1875, undated.
Box 5 Folder 1
Pennwalt Corporation Plant at Natrona, Pennsylvania (Original is a steel engraving, circa 1872.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 2
Original Shop Sign for Joseph Elkinton's Soap and Candle Manufactory (Original sign is from circa 1831.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 3
Philadelphia Quartz Company - Woodcut of Plant at Ninth and Mifflin Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Original is from circa 1864.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 4
The Tacony Chemical Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 1874, undated.
Box 5 Folder 5
Meeting Between E. I. du Pont and President Thomas Jefferson Held in 1801 (Original painting by Stanley Arthurs.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 6
Photograph of a Painting by Howard Pyle Depicting a Wagon Train of Du Pont Gunpowder En Route to the Front During the War of 1812, undated.
Box 5 Folder 7
Du Pont de Nemours & Company's Upper Brandywine Gun Powder Mills, near Wilmington, Delaware (Sketch by Adams-Son, New York circa 1881.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 8
Charles Pfizer, undated.
Box 5 Folder 9
Charles Erhart - Partner of Charles Pfizer and Co-Founder of Pfizer & Company, undated.
Box 5 Folder 10
Charles Pfizer and Family, Stuttgart, Germany, circa 1870, undated.
Box 5 Folder 11
Charles Pfizer & Company Original Building, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1849 (Original is an anonymous drawing.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 12
Vitriol Production in Italy, circa 1719 - Plate from Michele Mercati's "Metallogica," Rome, 1719, page 62, undated.
Box 5 Folder 13
Alum Production in Italy, circa 1719 - Plate from Michele Mercati's "Metallogica," Rome, 1719, page 55, undated.
Box 5 Folder 14
"The Alchymist," Engraving by W. Baillie After a Painting by Teniers (The caption on engraving reads, "He's in Belief of Chymistry so bold, if his Dream last, he'll turn the Age to Gold."), undated.
Box 5 Folder 15
"A Second View of Practical Chymistry Begun in the Universal Magazine in December, 1747" (Original is anonymous engraving, circa 1748.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 16
"Le Jeune Chimiste," (Original is an engraving by Jorma after a painting by Teniers.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 17
John Winthrop, Jr., Father of American Chemistry (Original is an anonymous woodcut.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 18
"Chemical Philosophers of the Present Day," Priestley and Lavoisier (Original is an anonymous engraving.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 19
"Contemporaneous Caricature of a Lecture at the Royal Institution in 1802" (Original is anonymous engraving.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 20
"Young Faraday at Work in the Laboratory of Sir Humphry Davy" (Original is anonymous drawing.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 21
Women Students in a Chemistry Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, circa 1880 (Original is an anonymous Engraving.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 22
John Bean, Chief Executive Officer of FMC Corporation, undated.
Box 5 Folder 23
The Celluloid Manufacturing Company, Newark, New Jersey in 1874 - The Nation's First Plastics Plant (Original is an anonymous drawing.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 24
Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation - Mule Team Transporting Chemicals, undated.
Box 5 Folder 25
First Shipment of Indigo to Leave Dow Plant at Midland, Michigan, 1917, undated.
Box 5 Folder 26
Personnel, Mathieson Alkali Works, Saltville, Virginia (Photograph includes Thomas T. Mathieson, first general manager of plant, and E. M. Davies, plant chemist.), circa 1894.
Box 5 Folder 27
Esso Chemical Company - First Commercial Petrochemical Plant at Bayway, New Jersey, Produced Isopropyl Alcohol in 1920 (The original photograph was taken in the early 1920s.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 28
BASF Plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany, circa 1866, 1971.
Box 5 Folder 29
Michigan Alkali Company, Number 2 Plant, Wyandotte, Michigan - North Works, circa 1890 (Original is an anonymous lithograph.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 30
Commercial Solvents Corporation, Terre Haute, Indiana Plant, circa 1922, undated.
Box 5 Folder 31
Virginia Smelting Company, Portsmouth, Virginia, circa 1899, undated.
Box 5 Folder 32
Upjohn Pill and Granule Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, circa 1884, 1971.
Box 5 Folder 33
M&T Chemicals, Incorporated - Plant Office Interior, circa 1908, undated.
Box 5 Folder 34
Solvay Process Company Plant, Solvay, New York, circa 1886, undated.
Box 5 Folder 35
Gulf Oil Corporation Refinery, Port Arthur, Texas, circa 1901, undated.
Box 5 Folder 36
Procter & Gamble - Plant on Central Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1855 (Original is an anonymous oil.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 37
Carus Chemical Company, LaSalle, Illinois - (a) Plant Construction and (b) View of Plant, circa 1920s, undated.
Box 5 Folder 38
The Celluloid Manufacturing Company, Newark, New Jersey - Employees Outside Plant, circa 1874, undated.
Box 5 Folder 39
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, East Akron, Ohio, circa 1898.
Box 5 Folder 40
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1901, undated.
Box 5 Folder 41
Naugatuck Chemical Division, Uniroyal, Incorporated - R&D Team, circa 1900, undated.
Box 5 Folder 42
Union Carbide Corporation, Clendenin, West Virginia Plant, circa 1920 - Group Photo Includes Dr. George O. Curme, Jr., undated.
Box 5 Folder 43
J. T. Baker Chemical Company - Plant Interior, circa 1906, 1971.
Box 5 Folder 44
H. Kohnstamm & Company Incorporated - Original Headquarters at 3 Tryon Row, New York City, circa 1853-1869, undated.
Box 5 Folder 45
CIBA-GEIGY Corporation - Geigy Chemical Company - Dyestuffs Lab, Barclay Street, New York City - Interior, circa 1928, 1971.
Box 5 Folder 46
CIBA-GEIGY Corporation - Geigy Chemical Company - Dyestuffs Lab, Barclay Street, New York City - Dr. Strobach and the Fade-Ometer, circa 1928, 1971.
Box 5 Folder 47
M&T Chemicals, Incorporated - Recycling Tin Cans, Carteret Plant, Carteret, New Jersey, circa mid-1940s, undated.
Box 5 Folder 48
Merck & Company - Headquarters Building, University Place, New York City, pre-1910, undated.
Box 5 Folder 49
BASF - Move from Stuttgart to Ludwigshafen, 1889 (Original is a line drawing.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 50
Merck & Company - Company Pharmacy in New York Headquarters Building - Interior, circa 1890s, undated.
Box 5 Folder 51
F. R. Hazard, President, Solvay Process Company, circa 1890s.
Box 5 Folder 52
Powers & Weightman Works, East Schuylkill Falls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Original is an anonymous engraving.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 53
Procter & Gamble - General View of Ivorydale, Ohio - Plant, circa 1890 (Original is an anonymous line drawing.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 54
Salt Works - Anonymous Print, undated.
Box 5 Folder 55
Pfizer Incorporated Formula Book, circa 1852, undated.
Box 5 Folder 56
Sun Oil Company - First Refinery, Toledo, Ohio, circa 1895, undated.
Box 5 Folder 57
Maiden Lane, New York City - Site of Pfizer Company Main Office, circa 1887, undated.
Box 5 Folder 58
Hyatt Plant, circa 1870, undated.
Box 5 Folder 59
Unidentified Lab Interior, undated.
Box 5 Folder 60
Manufacturing Chemists' Association - 64th Annual Meeting, Absecon, New Jersey, June 4-5, 1936 (Includes accompanying letter from Charles W. Millard III to Charles Van Vlack, Executive Vice President of Chemical Manufacturers Association.), 1936 June 4-5 and 1996 May 21.
Box 5 Folder 61
General Note

Photo filed with oversized photos.

Manufacturing Chemists' Association - S.O.C.M.A. 1937 Group at Absecon, New Jersey from Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, New York, 1937 June 28.
Box 5 Folder 62
Manufacturing Chemists' Association - Board of Directors, St. Louis, Missouri, 1955 October (Small leather-covered ring-binder containing 19 black and white 5x7 candid shots of board members.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 63
Plunkett, CMA News, 1985 April.
Box 5 Folder 64
Men Seated at a Table (Presumably from a Manufacturing Chemists' Association function.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 65
"Partners in Responsible Care" Campaign - Olin News, 1990.
Box 5 Folder 66
Three Snapshots Labeled "Pollution Prevention," "Emergency Response," "Distribution" and one unidentified strip of black and white 35mm negative film, undated.
Box 5 Folder 67

Series Description

Arranged in its original order, this series consists of meeting materials from Manufacturing Chemists' Association meetings. These files were collected by the Library Club for its research value. The contents of these files contain news releases, speeches, and panelist remarks.

American Petroleum Institute Project - Correspondence and Filing Rules, 1962-1963.
Box 6 Folder 1
Chemical News, 1962-1963.
Box 6 Folder 2
Miscellaneous Publications - (Including Laboratory Waste Disposal Manual, Chem-Card Manual and Teacher Book Superstition to Supersonics), 1957-1973.
Box 6 Folder 3
News Releases (Including "Summary of Principal Points - Statement of Matthew P. Landers on Behalf of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, March 5, 1973" on tax breaks for the chemical industry.), 1970-1973.
Box 6 Folder 4
Manufacturing Chemists' Association 14th Semi-Annual Meeting - Speeches and Panelists' Remarks (Topics include environmental health, tax considerations and the Kennedy Round of tariffs.), 1964 November 24.
Box 6 Folder 5
Manufacturing Chemists' Association 15th Semi-Annual Meeting - Speeches and Panelists' Remarks (Topics include water pollution, East-West trade and chemical advertising.), 1965 November 23.
Box 6 Folder 6
Manufacturing Chemists' Association 16th Semi-Annual Meeting - Speeches and Panelists' Remarks (Topics include water resources management, industry recruitment, ocean resources and the Kennedy Round of tariffs.), 1966 November 22.
Box 6 Folder 7
Manufacturing Chemists' Association Workshop on Air Pollution Control, 1967 February 2.
Box 7 Folder 1
Manufacturing Chemists' Association Weatherability of Plastics Materials Symposium (Abstracts of papers presented.), 1967 February 6-9.
Box 7 Folder 2
Manufacturing Chemists' Association Workshop on Water Quality Culture, 1967 June 14.
Box 7 Folder 3
Manufacturing Chemists' Association 17th Semi-Annual Meeting - Speeches and Panelists' Remarks (Topics include environmental management, urban problems, computers in management, and standards in engineered chemistry.), 1967 November 21.
Box 7 Folder 4
Manufacturing Chemists' Association Workshop on Water Pollution Control, 1968 April 29.
Box 7 Folder 5
Manufacturing Chemists' Association Workshop on Air Pollution Control (Including a paper on the Air Quality Act of 1967.), 1968 May 27.
Box 7 Folder 6
Manufacturing Chemists' Association 18th Semi-Annual Meeting - Speeches and Panelists' Remarks (Topics include regulations, investments, insurance, and social concerns.), 1968 November 26.
Box 7 Folder 7
Manufacturing Chemists' Association Chemical Industry Safety Workshop, 1970 April 30.
Box 7 Folder 8
Manufacturing Chemists' Association 20th Semi-Annual Meeting - Papers and Remarks (Topics including economic outlook and productivity.), 1970 November 24-25.
Box 7 Folder 9
Manufacturing Chemists' Association 21st Semi-Annual Meeting - Papers and Remarks (Topics including technology, energy health and safety.), 1971 November 23-24.
Box 7 Folder 10

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