Corporate Records
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Jeffers, Grace
label: Collection Creator
content: Formica Corporation.
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content: Formica Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2003
label: Date
content: 1920-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0565, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Corporate Records, 1920-1992, is divided into seven subseries: Subseries 1.1, Annual Reports, 1949, 1966, 1988; Subseries 1.2, Correspondence and company identity, 1920-1988; Subseries 1.3, Corporation histories and timelines, 1949-1991, undated; Subseries 1.4, Newspaper clippings and articles, 1934-2003; Subseries 1.5, Awards, 1940s-1987; Subseries1. 6, Patent Information, 1925-1994; and Subseries 1.7, Photographs, 1927-1966. The materials do reflect highlights of the company's history including correspondence, published histories, a variety of photographs of O'Conor and Faber, copies of patents for the plastic laminate, and clippings regarding labor strikes. Company cartoons, dinner invitations listing employees by years of service, trademark material, and a series of company logos found on stationery, calendars, and folders document the corporate culture of Formica between 1965 and 1995. The series includes a wide variety of photographs of Formica's plant in Evendale, Ohio, and the establishment of the Research and Design Center in 1951. Other photographs cover Formica's expansion in the international market, with images of the corporation's factories in Australia, England, Spain, and Taiwan.