Swift & Company Research Laboratories records, 1951-1983.

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Swift & Company Research Laboratories records, 1951-1983.

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Correspondence, employee directories, resumes, organizational charts, and company reports from Swift & Company. The collection contains correspondence between H.E. Robinson and Wyndam Miles regarding a biography of W.D. Robinson; correspondence between Swift & Company Research Laboratories and John J. Beer regarding the history of Swift & Company, 1962. Also included are a directory of personnel for Research Laboratories and Martha Logan (ca. 1958); Research Laboratories division resumes (ca. 1957-1960); an organizational chart of the Research Laboratories as of November 28, 1958 and reports from the research department listing accomplishments for 1951 and 1983. There is also a printed document entitled "Research at Swift and Company" that outlines how Derby Foods could benefit from Swift's product development program, 1958.

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Miles, Wyndam.

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Robinson, H. E.

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Swift & Company

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Swift & Company. Research Laboratories.

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Beer, John Joseph, 1927-

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John Joseph Beer was born July 17, 1927 at Saarbrucken, Germany, and received his Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Illinois in 1956. After early employment at Hanover College (1956-57), Eastern Illinois University (1957-58), and Oklahoma State University (1958-1961), Beer secured a position at the University of Delaware, where he taught the history of science and the history of chemistry until his retirement in 1992. With Eugene S. Ferguson, George Basalla and David A. Houn...

Robinson, W. D. (Will D.)

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Swift & Company. Home Economics Division.

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