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Organizational Records
CHF holds the archival records of the organizations listed below. Records may include founding documents, deeds, minutes, patents, correspondence, annual reports, and more. These collections are cataloged, with finding aids, in the online public access catalog (OPAC) of the Othmer Library of Chemical History.

TIP: To search for a particular collection in the OPAC, be sure to narrow your search by first selecting “Archives and Images” from the collection drop-down list.

  • American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry
  • ACS Division on the History of Chemistry
  • ACS History of Steroids Symposium, New York City, 27–28 August 1991
  • Althouse-Bates-Crompton (fragmentary holdings)
  • Baptista Geigy Sample Card Collection (dyestuffs)
  • The Chemists’ Club
  • Chinese-American Chemists’ Society (CACS)
  • Commercial Development & Marketing Association (CDMA) (formerly CDA)
  • Chemical Management & Resources Corporation (CMRA, later CDMA) Addenda
  • Consolidated Solvents Corporation (CSC)
  • Gordon Research Conferences
  • International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), 1919–1965
  • IUPAC Addenda, 1965–1995
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Nuclear Division (select records only)
  • Manufacturing Chemists Association (letter books)
  • Pew Scholars
  • Smithsonian Institute Science in American Life Exhibit (files of Ned Heindel)
  • Tiers-Frasch (letter books of the firm of Tiers Bros.)

In addition, the following collections of personal papers contain large amounts of organizational material:

  • Papers of Charles M. Judson (for Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation)
  • Papers of Myron S. Simon (for the Polaroid Corporation)
  • Papers of Walter Slavin (for Perkin-Elmer)

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For more information, please contact archivist@chemheritage.org.