Papers, ca. 1910-1948.

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Papers, ca. 1910-1948.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37730087

Collection consists of engineering and business records of Lipscomb's work in South America. Includes handwritten diaries, 1910-1948, correspondence, 1939-1940, a small number of "Heat Engineering" magazines and machinery catalogs, typescript reports on manufacturing technologies, over 300 4x6" photographs from ca. 1914-1915 of factory sites in South America, blueprints/mechanical drawings of factory improvements, 1937-1940, and a Grace & Co. centennial commemorative paperweight.

2.5 cubic ft.

Auburn University.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7396001

Auburn University.

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W.R. Grace & Co.

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W. R. Grace and Co. is an American chemical business based in Columbia, Maryland. It produces specialty chemicals and specialty materials in two divisions: Grace Catalysts Technologies, which makes catalysts and related products and technologies used in petrochemical, refining, and other chemical manufacturing applications, and Grace Materials and Chemicals, which makes specialty materials, including silica-based and silica-alumina-based materials, used in pharmaceutical/consumer, coatings, and ...

Lipscomb, Gaston Joel.

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Lipscomb graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) in mechanical engineering in 1902. He worked for W.R. Grace & Co. at its Paramonga and Cartavio, Peru, sugar refineries until the 1930s when he became head of Grace's "Small Industrial Engineering Department." His retirement date is unknown. From the description of Papers, ca. 1910-1948. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 37730087 ...