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Finding aid created by: DGI/MM
Date: 2006
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| Feb 2009 | converted to EAD (MRC) |
| Jun 2009 | reprocessed (MRC) |
Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Marshall, George, plastics engineer. |
| Title: | George Marshall Papers |
| Dates: | 1940s-1965 |
| Quantity: | 1 legal-size box, 1 square tube |
| Abstract: | Collection contains correspondence from Wasco Chemical from 1959, photographs of plastics manufacturing facilities, plastics industry-related publications, and piping diagrams for a factory for Great American Plastics in Fitchburg, MA. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
George Marshall worked in the plastics and chemical industries. He worked for the Leominster, Mass. office of Borden Chemical in 1955 and by 1959 had moved to Wasco Chemicals, first in Cambridge, Mass. and then in Sanford, Maine.
The George Marshall Papers consists of blueprints (piping diagrams for a factory for Great American Plastics in Fitchburg, MA), papers (correspondence from Wasco Chemical from 1959), photographs of plastics manufacturing facilities, and publications related to the plastics indutry.
Access Restrictions:
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Use Restrictions:
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Special Collections Research Center has numerous holdings in the areas of plastics and industrial design. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
Persons
Marshall, George, plastics engineer -- Archives.
Corporate Bodies
Borden Chemical.
Great American Plastics.
Wasco (firm)
Subjects
Factories -- Fires and fire prevention.
Factories.
Piping.
Plastics industry and trade.
Genres and Forms
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Plumbing plans.
Occupations
Engineers.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
George Marshall Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Transfer from National Plastics Center and Museum, 11/06/2008. Originally, gift of children of Dorothy and George Marshall.
Blueprints
Papers
Photographs
Publications
| Blueprints | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Great American Plastics, Fitchburg, Massachusetts 1964 - piping diagrams, rolled (20 items) | ||||||||||
| Papers | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Wasco Calculator promotional material 1959-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Wasco Chemical Co. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Water bath casting 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous 1959-1960 | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Factories late 1940s-? - factories (exteriors and interiors), factory fires, ruins of factories, and a tanker on railroad tracks; locations are largely unidentified, a few include Illinois (Mt. Pulaski and Illiapolis), Massachusetts, and possibly Maine. (2 folders, 70 items) | ||||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Borden, Casco News 1954-1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | DuPont, Lucite Manual 1942 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Imperial Chemical Industries, Perspex Corrugated Acrylic Sheet, 2d Edition 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Rohm and Haas, Perspex Design and Fabrication Data 1949, 1961 | ||||||||||