Organization
United States Radium Corporation
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Collection
Identifier: MC/45
Repository:
RBHS Special Collections in the History of Medicine
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United States Radium Corporation Records; Guide to the
Scope and content:
The records of the U.S. Radium Corp. of East Orange, New Jersey consist of eighteen reels of 35mm microfilm. The files contain correspondence, reports, published articles, certificates, insurance and legal files, and other records documenting the company's business activities and investigations into the contamination of its female radium dial painters by radioluminous paint. Of particular note, are legal files of the case, La Porte vs. US Radium (1934). In...