Presentation
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- Snapshot: The Decades 1930s
- Snapshot: The Decades 1940s
- Snapshot: The Decades 1950s
- Vintage Ad Browser
- A Depression Era Medicinal Plant Map of the United States
- Dr. Marie Maynard Daly: the first Black womanwith a Ph.D in Chemistry (awarded in 1947)
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Chemistry Set
- 1950s: The Petrochemical Boom
- 48 Lost Self-Reliance Skills That Kept Our Forefathers Alive
- Tall Story (movie, 1960)
YouTube Videos
- Radioactive Atomic energy Lab Kit with Uranium (1950-1951)
- The History (and Future!) of the Chemistry Set
Articles (pdf)
- 8 Dangerous Items That Used to Be Allowed in Kids' Chemistry Kits
- Whatever Happened to Chemistry Sets by Kat Arney
- Here's the Important Reason We Don't Get Mad Chemistry Kits...
- Dagwood Splits the Atom 1946
- Poison Politics
- The Chemistry Set Generation
- Chemistry and You by Hopkins, Davis, Smith, McGill and Bradbury ©1939
- Our Friend the Atom by Heinz Haber (Walt Disney ©1956
- Gilbert Chemistry edited by Treak Johnson, Elbert Shelton and Alfred Gilbert ©1936