Detail View: WMU Regional History Photograph Collection: WMU Regional History Photograph Collection
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Identifier:
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exwa_wmup_p-0008275
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Title:
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Employees in the Mixing Room, Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Date:
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1945-01
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Description:
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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.
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Person:
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Ravine, Owen
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Person:
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Dykehouse, Bernard, 1900-1993
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Person:
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Bowler, Cecil
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Person:
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Lemmer, Leo A., 1912-2001
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Person:
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Crowner, Gerald
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Person:
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Gerald Elliot, 1905-1989
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Person:
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Kinkema, Henry J., 1914-2009
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Person:
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Bos, Andrew J., 1918-2012
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Person:
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Simmonds, Gilbert H., 1897-1970
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Building:
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Upjohn Company
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Subject:
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Upjohn Company--Employees
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Subject:
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Pharmaceutical industry
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Subject:
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Chemical laboratories
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Subject:
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Upjohn Company--Uniforms
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Subject:
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Laboratory technicians
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Subject:
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Male employees
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Subject:
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caps (headgear)
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Keywords:
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Black & white photographs
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Location:
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Kalamazoo (Mich.)
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Time Period:
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1940 - 1949
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Source:
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4.75 x 3 in. sepia gray print, WMU Photograph Collection, P-0008275
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Collection:
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WMU Regional History Photograph Collection
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Publisher:
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Western Michigan University
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Digital Date:
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2020
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Rights Statement:
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
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Rights Status:
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Copyright Undetermined
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Access Rights:
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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.
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Type:
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image
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Box Barcode:
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Box 82, Barcode: 31141024381209
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Format Creation:
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image/tiff
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