COLLECTION NAME:
WMU Regional History Photograph Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwa_wmup_p-0008275
Title:
Employees in the Mixing Room, Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date:
1945-01
Description:
Laboratory technicians behind a lab table with weighing implements in the Mixing Center at the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Employees with their date of service include, left to right, Owen Ravine (1928), Bernard Dykehouse (1921), Cecil Bowler (1919), Leo Lemmer (1941), Gerald Crowner (1935), Henry Kinkema (1941), Andrew Bos (1942), and Gilbert H. Simmonds (1930). Employees represented 95 years of service. Employees wear white shirts and pants with bakers caps. The Upjohn Company was a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm founded in 1886 by Dr. William E. Upjohn. The company was originally formed to make friable pills, which were specifically designed to be easily digested. In 1995, Upjohn merged with Pharmacia AB to form Pharmacia & Upjohn, and was later owned by Pfizer.
Person:
Ravine, Owen
Person:
Dykehouse, Bernard, 1900-1993
Person:
Bowler, Cecil
Person:
Lemmer, Leo A., 1912-2001
Person:
Crowner, Gerald
Person:
Gerald Elliot, 1905-1989
Person:
Kinkema, Henry J., 1914-2009
Person:
Bos, Andrew J., 1918-2012
Person:
Simmonds, Gilbert H., 1897-1970
Building:
Upjohn Company
Subject:
Upjohn Company--Employees
Subject:
Pharmaceutical industry
Subject:
Chemical laboratories
Subject:
Upjohn Company--Uniforms
Subject:
Laboratory technicians
Subject:
Male employees
Subject:
caps (headgear)
Keywords:
Black & white photographs
Location:
Kalamazoo (Mich.)
Time Period:
1940 - 1949
Source:
4.75 x 3 in. sepia gray print, WMU Photograph Collection, P-0008275
Collection:
WMU Regional History Photograph Collection
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Digital Date:
2020
Rights Statement:
Rights Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
Type:
image
Box Barcode:
Box 82, Barcode: 31141024381209
Format Creation:
image/tiff
WMU Regional History Photograph Collection
