Celluloid Corporation Records

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Celluloid Corporation Records

1883 - 1943

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The collection consists of trade catalogs, price lists, notebooks, promotional literature, patents, a salesman's kit (including samples), photographs and prints of plant buildings, personnel, celluloid molds and by-products documenting the Celluloid Corporation.

3 Cubic feet (3 boxes )

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11662125

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Hyatt, John W. (John Wesley), 1837-1920

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John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920) was an American manufacturer in the plastics field, and the inventor of celluloid. Born in Starkey, New York in 1837, at the age of 16 Hyatt began work as a printer in Illinois and later in Albany, New York, where he eventually set up his own manufacturing company which became the Albany Billiard Ball Company. In his experiments, Hyatt discovered the solvent action of camphor on cellulose nitrate under moderate heat and pressure, creating ce...

Celluloid Corporation

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