This Chicago Section ACS archive is replete with photos from all periods of our organization's history, particularly from the 1960's onward. Unfortunately, most of those photos are unannotated, rendering them nearly useless to anyone who does not have personal knowledge of their subjects. This must be fixed!
The "Who Is This?" project aims to identify people, places, events, and dates associated with these photos. Many of you ACS members and collegues know who they are, and are thus in a position to help. This project simply aims to connect your special knowledge with our archive via our Historian, thus crowdsourcing the solution to the identificaiton problem. Anyone with any needed knowledge about the photos shown in these galleries is invited to help by either:
• Adding a comment on one of the blog posts (see below). This requires to you log in with your member information here first: https://chicagoacs.starchapter.com/members.php
• Sending a note to the Historian at [email protected].
This May’s Willard Gibbs Award ties together two special figures in Chicago Section history: Prof. Fred Basolo and Prof. Marcetta Y. Darensbourg. To help celebrate, we present photos from Basolo’s 1996 Gibbs Award ceremony, and ask for assistance identify
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This May’s Willard Gibbs Award ties together two special figures in Chicago Section history: Prof. Fred Basolo and Prof. Marcetta Y. Darensbourg. To help celebrate, we present photos from Basolo’s 1996 Gibbs Award ceremony, and ask for assistance identify
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Kodachrome slides in a box labeled “NCE 1970” were recently discovered in the archive, sparking an inquiry into what was once a major preoccupation of the Chicago Section: the National Chemical Exposition. The NCE was a multifaceted event...
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In 1992, we had a booth at the Environmental Technology Expo, as documented by photos recently extracted from our archives. Though at first the group of pictures all seemed to depict the same event, certain details, like the width of the booth and the con
Read MoreBack in 1995, a group from Chicago ACS helped raise funds in a telethon. This looks like it was fun, but the pile of photos in the archives contains little information. If you know anything about this outing, please write to [email protected].
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Back in 1995, a group from Chicago ACS helped raise funds in a telethon. This looks like it was fun, but the pile of photos in the archives contains little information. If you know anything about this outing, please write to [email protected].
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Santa came to visit at least one Chicago ACS holiday party years ago, and he even gave presents to chemists’ kids. But when? And who else was there? We have a bunch of photos from the event, but we don’t know who the subjects are.
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The Chicago Section has a moderate-sized set of photographs from a Willard Gibbs Award ceremony (possibly 1997's event for Allen Bard) and we need your help to identify people in them.
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This month, we cover a set of photos taken on Saturday, November 9, 1991. According to the October 1991 Chemical Bulletin, this was the final day of National Chemistry Week, which was celebrated with three days of activities. Day 1 (Nov. 2) included ...
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HELP! FUN! The Chicago Section has extensive photo archives, but not all of our items are documented well. Many of our photos depict individuals who are unknown to our current Section Historian. We seek your help identifying people in our photos...
Read More| Historian Committee | |
The Historian Committee shall maintain the historical records of the Chicago Section including reports, photos, and documentation from other committees and subcommittees, serve as a historical consultant for the Section, and work to provide historically-pertinent content for the Chemical Bulletin, web site, news media, and social media. | |
Historian  Josh W Kurutz | |
