Pfizer Inc. collection 1888-1995.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Pfizer Inc. collection 1888-1995.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/654370059

The Pfizer/Upjohn Collection includes company records from 1887- 2001 and video, audio, films, and photographs related to the history of the company from 1875-1986. The records collection includes: minutes of the company from the first 6 years ; financial, operational, and production material such as early production ledgers, 1892-1912; speeches, 1938-1969; advertising through the years, such as Saturday Evening Post ads,1941-44; local and national news clippings; in-house magazines---Upjohn News, and the Overflow, 1926-61; Upjohn support and establishment of non-profit organizations; Centennial materials; Upjohn and Asgrow company histories; legal documents and government hearings including patents and real estate records; exhibits such as at the Smithsonian and 1964 Worlds Fair; catalogs and handbooks; miscellaneous medical and research publications. The photograph collection includes: 1934 historic photo album with images of regional offices and the Upjohns; advertising displays with program ads and the Upjohn logo and promotional plaques; Asgrow, including executives, associates and workers ; branch offices and international subsidiaries including architectural drawings; the space shuttle; Brook lodge, including it's first official conference; various shots (interior and exterior and aerial ) of Building 41, Building 88 and Building 300; the Centennial Celebration; first company jet; downtown Kalamazoo; various employees including executives, board of directors; Mrs Henry Ford; E.J. Upjohn, Piero Cremaguan, W.E. Upjohn, L.N. Upjohn, H.U. Upjohn, and Rachel Babcock Upjohn; Upjohn steamer car, 1907; salesmen's conferences; various staff; Army-Navy awards; a variety of industrial equipment from different time periods; exhibits including 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair; farm and residential properties; manufacturing and production; products; research labs; Richland Farms; sterile products department; various Upjohn buildings; aerial shots of Kalamazoo, Portage, and the Estrogen Plant.

160 cu. ft.

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7945061

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

Related Entities

There are 11 Entities related to this resource.

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hj7bv0 (corporateBody)

The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Upjohn company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hm9z14 (corporateBody)

Kalamazoo, MI. From the description of Collection, ca.1895-1936. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122616395 ...

Upjohn, E.J.,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j99jcv (person)

Upjohn, Rachel Babcock

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wq2wd1 (person)

Upjohn family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zt2173 (family)

Pfizer Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kt0rcd (corporateBody)

Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 by cousins Charles Pfizer, a chemist, and Charles Erhart, a confectioner. Recent immigrants to Brooklyn, N.Y. from Germany, the cousins opened their business under the name Charles Pfizer & Company in a red-brick building in the Town of Williamsburgh, now the neighborhood of Williamsburg in the borough of Brooklyn. Their first successful product was a form of santonin covered in an almond toffee flavoring that was used to treat intestinal worms. D...

Upjohn, H. U., 1843-1887

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck16ng (person)

Upjohn, William, 1770-1847

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xd3tpc (person)

William Upjohn was born in England on June 10, 1770. He was an Independent preacher in Shaftesbury, England, and also worked as a civil engineer and piano tuner. On March 14, 1796, he married Mary Standard, and they had twelve children, including Keturah, Demaris, William, Uriah, Sally, and Helen. In July 1830, he and his family left England for the United States, and they settled in Pittsford, New York, before 1836. He became a naturalized citizen on October 2, 1837. Upjohn owned a farm that pr...

Upjohn, L.N.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w69bst (person)

Upjohn, Piero Cremaguan

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qr7p53 (person)

Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w09kr6 (person)