Addenda
name: label: Collection Author
content: Parke, Davis Company
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content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1867-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0001, Series 13
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The series covers select documents for the general history of the company, administrative activities, personnel matters, research, commercial development, advertising, public relations, production engineering, quality control, purchasing, legal activities, government relations, and photographs. Original file folder titles were retained. The series consists of memoranda, correspondence, meeting agendas, publications, biographical data for employees (promotions, retirements, and deaths), annual reports, price catalogs, reprints of articles, newspaper clippings, and reports. Many of the materials are typescript, but handwritten letters and some reports are present. 

There is correspondence with many Parke, Davis employees across several divisions/departments. They include:

Gertrude Losie, head of Parke, Davis Research Library. Correspondence details efforts to document internal research and discussing necessary steps to archive and classify the company's  documentaion correctly.  Losie communicated with other archives in the United States about best practices for archiving materials. 

Correspondence of Dr. Elijah Mark Houghton (1867-1937) and Dr. Charles T. McClintock, both directors of the Medical Research and Biological Laboratories. 

Dr. Oliver Kamm (b. 1888-), scientific director of the research laboratories. 

Photographs are also present that depict manufacturing and packaging processes, portraits of employees, and images depciting the exterior of buildings and interior of buildings, especially research departments and laboratories with equipment.