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1. Cavalli Scythe, c. 1927-1933 - Scythe

   Cavalli Scythe, c. 1927-1933. Serpentine cylindrical wooden handle with two perpendicular wooden handles. Two metal screws attach scythe blade. Blade is curved with raised top edge.

   Record Type: Object

   
2. Corn Seeder, 1893 - Planter, Corn

   Corn Seeder, 1893. Wooden corn seeder has a red painted finish. The base of the vertical wooden piece is hinged with a spring to another wooden piece. A disk inside the bottom of the cylinder spins revealing holes beneath that allow seeds to pass through when compressed. The canister is attached to the small wooden piece by a rod. Similar rods attach to a kick plate that are affixed to the small wooden piece on the other side. At the top of the l...

   Record Type: Object

   
3. Development of West Hillsdale Boulevard in San Mateo, 1961 - Negative

   Development of West Hillsdale Boulevard in San Mateo, 1961. Black and white negative shows bulldozers clearing land for residential housing developments along a hillside in San Mateo, California. The site has been mostly cleared by construction equipment with a large area of dirt visible at mid-ground in the center of the image. There is a wire fence separating a field of grass from the site in the foreground. Photographer Norton Pearl notes that...

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Flower Shipment from SFO, 1961 - Negative

   Flower Shipment from SFO, 1961. Black and white negative shows two workers with a flower shipment on an American Airlines airplane at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Boxes of flowers are stacked on a raised forklift, with the boxes just outside of the airplane's cargo hold. "AIRfreight" is painted on the side of the airplane under the cockpit. A man in work clothes operates the forklift from the tarmac below. Next to him is a secon...

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5. Hand Drill, c. 1930-1960 - Drill, Hand

   Hand Drill, c. 1930-1960. Coupling head where drill bit would attach has vertical ribbing and tapers to circular shaft. Circular shaft runs length of tool, ends with smooth crescent metal piece. Wooden handle protrudes perpendicularly from circular shaft, with rounded finished end. Large gear mechanism in center with ribbed outer and inner edges connects to "S" shaped metal handle with attached wooden handle. Large center gear connects to smalle...

   Record Type: Object

   
6. Larwood Company Facitlities in Redwood City, February 9, 1967 - Negative

   Larwood Company Facitlities in Redwood City, February 9, 1967. Black and white photo negative of Larwood Company facility and equipment in Redwood City. Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Ray at Telecom Show, July 25, 1975 - Photograph, Black-and-White

   Ray at Telecom Show, July 25, 1975. Black and white contact sheet of 4 x 5 film shows three images of the puppet Ray the Raychem Seal with Raychem Corporation products. Ray appears at the top of each image with application equipment heaters arranged out in front of him. Several metal clamps and a swivel hook are chained together and rest of a piece of material with large grommets at bottom center. The images are similar with the only change the p...

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. Ray at Telecom Show, July 25, 1975 - Photograph, Black-and-White

   Telecom Show Chicago, July 25, 1975. Black and white contact sheet of 4 x 5 film shows three images of the puppet Ray the Raychem Seal with a Raychem Corporation telecom product. Ray appears at the top of each image next to a telephone. A cable leading away from the telephone curves back and forth across the image and connects to a second cable with rectangular hardware at lower right. The images are similar with Ray holding the telephone receive...

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. Raychem Corporation Product Literature, Application Equipment, early 1960s - February 1982 - Archive

   Raychem Corporation Product Literature, Application Equipment, early 1960s - February 1982. Documents on Raychem Corporation Application Equipment. Document types include booklets, data sheets, and photocopies. Subjects include heaters, installation and operating instructions, and a specification control drawing. Documents are arranged by print date. PDF inventory available in media tab of collections database.

   Record Type: Archive

   
10. Royal Elk Fossil Found in San Mateo County, May 1962 - Negative

    Royal Elk Fossils Found in San Mateo County, May 1962. Black and white negative shows a crawler crane and several men holding up a royal elk fossil. The skull with antlers was found by the Haskin Company while excavating in the Laguna Alta peat bog near Pacifica. Part of a series.

    Record Type: Photo

    
11. San Francisco International Airport Parking Garage Expansion, 1964 - Negative

    San Francisco International Airport Parking Garage Expansion, 1964. Black and white negative shows construction of the front parking garage at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The image shows a large, muddy, dug-up field with various construction vehicles and trucks, including a crane. Rebar pillars and concrete pillars are spread throughout the field. Piles of large pipes appear at center left. A large curved building is visible in th...

    Record Type: Photo

    
12. Telecom Show Chicago, July 25, 1975 - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Telecom Show Chicago, July 25, 1975. Black and white contact sheet of 4 x 5 film shows three images of the puppet Ray the Raychem Seal with a Raychem Corporation telecom product. Ray appears at the top of each image next to a telephone. A cable leading away from the telephone curves back and forth across the image and connects to a second cable with rectangular hardware at lower right. The images are similar with Ray holding the telephone receive...

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. Telecom Show Chicago, July 25, 1975 - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Telecom Show Chicago, July 25, 1975. Black and white contact sheet of 4 x 5 film with three images of the puppet Ray the Raychem Seal and Raychem Corporation products. Ray appears at the top of each image with application equipment heaters arranged out in front of him. Several metal clamps and a swivel hook are chained together and rest of a piece of material with large grommets at bottom center. The images are similar with the only change the po...

    Record Type: Photo

    
14. Umbrella ink bottle recovered from City Centre Plaza, c. 1840-1909. - Bottle, Ink

    Umbrella ink bottle recovered from City Centre Plaza, c. 1840-1909. This bottle is conical in shaped with eight-sided panels to form the sides, hand-blown tooled rim for a crudely rolled or folded-in finish. A .25 inch short neck flares out to a .75 inch double ring shoulder to a 2.25 inch body. The bottle is clear and shows evidence of glass hand-made manufacture.

    Record Type: Object

    
15. Umbrella ink bottle recovered from City Centre Plaza, c. 1840-1909. - Bottle, Ink

    Umbrella ink bottle recovered from City Centre Plaza, c. 1840-1909. This bottle is conical in shaped with eight-sided panels to form the sides, hand-blown tooled rim for a crudely rolled or folded-in finish. A .25 inch short neck flares out to a .75 inch double ring shoulder to a 2.25 inch body. The bottle is clear and shows evidence of glass hand-made manufacture.

    Record Type: Object

    
16. Untitled [Building Construction] - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Untitled [Building Construction], c. 1966-1975. Black and white photograph of the construction site for part of Raychem Headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The image shows a dirt construction lot with piles of rebar cages and other construction materials at center. Two construction workers appear in the background left of center, and another group of workers can be seen in the distance at upper right. This image is from a set of photograph...

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. Untitled [Building Construction] - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Untitled [Building Construction], c. 1966-1975. Black and white photograph of the construction site for part of Raychem Headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The image shows a dirt lot with piles of gravel at mid-ground extending across the image at center. Two small buildings appear in the distance near a row of powerlines. Several people are visible in this area, including a worker operating a bulldozer at upper right. This image is from a...

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. Untitled [Building Construction] - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Untitled [Building Construction], c. 1966-1975. Black and white photograph of the construction site for part of Raychem Headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The image shows a partially constructed building with scaffolding and building materials. A pile of wood appears in the foreground at lower right with piles of dirt and gravel at right and left. Three construction workers are visible in the distance at upper left and a long building with a...

    Record Type: Photo

    
19. Untitled [Building Construction, Concrete Foundation] - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Untitled [Building Construction, Concrete Foundation], c. 1966-1975. Black and white photograph of the construction site for part of Raychem Headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The image shows a grid of rebar within a rectangular wooden frame prepared for holding concrete. Two construction workers appear at mid-ground, upper left. One worker sits in profile on the grid, while another bends over to work on the rebar. Several other workers can ...

    Record Type: Photo

    
20. Untitled [Building Construction with Bulldozer] - Photograph, Black-and-White

    Untitled [Building Construction with Bulldozer], c. 1966-1975. Black and white photograph of the construction site for part of Raychem Headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The image shows a large pile of gravel in the foreground along the bottom of the image with a bulldozer at upper left. Text on the front of the bulldozer reads, "FWD / WAGNER." This image is from a set of photographs originally stored in an envelope with "Ross Heslop" ...

    Record Type: Photo

    
21. Untitled [Fred Smith at Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska] - Transparency, Slide

    Untitled [Fred Smith at Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska], November 1975. This color slide shows Raychem employee Fred Smith standing in front of a section of pipeline that is wrapped in white Desertclad tape with snowcapped mountains in the background. Smith wears an Alyeska Arctic Wear Parka that was issued to workers on the Trans-Alaska pipeline construction project along with a blue Raychem hardhat and an orange knit face mask. Deser...

    Record Type: Photo

    
22. Untitled [Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska] - Transparency, Slide

    Untitled [Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska], November 1975. This color slide shows a Caterpillar side boom crawler crane in a snowy landscape that is supporting a section of pipe with a rolling sling during a product trial of Raychem Desertclad heat shrink coating. The yellow painted crane appears at left with a section of unwrapped pipe visible at right. A blue piece of material is covering the front of the crane, and part of the machine ...

    Record Type: Photo

    
23. Untitled [Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska] - Transparency, Slide

    Untitled [Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska], November 1975. This color slide shows a row of heaters around a section of unwrapped pipe in an outdoor setting. The heaters are cylindrical and wrap around the exterior of the pipe with an overhead metal structure to support and move the units along the pipe by crane. A flame from one of the heaters is visible at center. The heaters were fueled by propane and would raise the pipe temperature to...

    Record Type: Photo

    
24. Untitled [Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska] - Transparency, Slide

    Untitled [Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska], November 1975. This color slide shows two heaters around a section of unwrapped pipe in a snowy landscape. The heaters are cylindrical and wrap around the exterior of the pipe. The heaters both have black tubing connecting to their sides and a set of metal runners on the underside. Metal loops at top provide a place to attach the units to an overhead metal structure. Desertclad was a product t...

    Record Type: Photo

    
25. Untitled [Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska] - Transparency, Slide

    Untitled [Raychem Desertclad Tape Trial in Alaska], November 1975. This color slide shows white Desertclad tape coating a section of pipeline in a snowy landscape. The pipe extends from the foreground at lower right into the distance at upper left. A propane tank rests on the ground at bottom center. A crane, several people, and an automobile are visible at upper left. Desertclad was a product that the Raychem Corporation was testing for coatin...

    Record Type: Photo