Records. Converse Chemical Company-Cooking Ware (inclusive), 1910-1966.

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Records. Converse Chemical Company-Cooking Ware (inclusive), 1910-1966.

Correspondence, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Converse Chemical Company, a patent medicine firm, 1911-1924; Converse Treatment for Epilepsy, a mail-order patent medicine for epilepsy, 1910-1956; L.L. Cooke, owner of Coyne National Trade Schools, who promoted a school of electricity, 1928; and cooking ware (materials regarding the benefits or hazards of various metals in cooking ware), 1935-1966.

8 folders.

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