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February 2026 - Added information about a Scope publication titled 'Handbook of Adolescent Medication'. Added Diarrhea Improved (Contains opium!), Blaud Compound with Capsicum and Cold Cream on the Product Page. Made the collection of Upjohn News more easily searchable using Google.

January 2026 - Added a 175-page Upjohn Company scrapbook from the 1920s/1930s. Added a 1939 letter from Donald Gilmore to all Upjohn employees. Added pages on blockbuster products Motrin and Halcion/Xanax. Added a Quassia bottle and a Super D Perles bottle on the Product Page

December 2025 - Added a photo of small Upjohn dolls. Added a Xanax paint can. Added an Aloe and Rue Compound bottle. Added a link to a YouTube recording of Granny advertising Cheracol D. Added 4 more Christmas Cards sent to me by Doris Balgoyen.   

November 2025 - Added an Opium and Lead Acetate bottle. Added a Traveller's Guide booklet. 

October 2025 - Added a skunk cabbage bottle to the Products Page. Added July 1996 and January 1997 Pharmacia & Upjohn Retail Price Lists. Added a page on Unipet, the multivitamin for cats and dogs.

September 2025 - Thanks to Ron Stryd, I have added a 1960's booklet "A Moment at a Concert". This supported the large metal model of the brain that Upjohn showed around the country. Also added a 1961 publicity and recruiting brochure titled "Upjohn". Added a handout for a 1966 Brook Lodge tour. Added some information about a 1976 book "Patterns for Progress".  Added a page with caricatures of employees by Jack Harkema.  Added a 1991 publication titled "Van Gogh - A Psychosocial Perspective". 

August 2025 - Added a new page of products. These were donated by Jack Crispin of Crispin's Drug Store Museum. Added recent obituaries to the main page. Thanks to Steve King I have added a 1985 veterinary products catalog,  a brochure from the 1978 Control Managers' Conference and a presentation titled "Back To The Basics: Sterile Plant History 1951 - 2003". Added a 1981 Corporate Objectives, Policies and Organization.  Added a 1988 Corporate Objectives, Policies and Organization. Added some lists of Building 41 sterile products and their uses.         

July 2025 - Added a new fun fact about Rhubarb and Blue Mass pills. Added Upjohn Awards for Arthur Bowman and for Stanley Euston. Added the Summer 1998 phone book.

June 2025 - Added a number of employee handbooks and booklets that cover company policies, rules, salaries, benefits and opportunites. Updated the page for the Upjohn Disneyland display in the Coit Museum of Pharmacy & Healthcare Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Added a page on Building 189.

May 2025 - Added six more products. Added a page on Walter Enz, a leader in Upjohn research from the 1930s to the 1960s. Added a page on Upjohn brand candy.  Added a summary of visitor statistics. Added 21 products on the latest Products Page. Added a series of recruiting brochures from 1959-1961.

April 2025 - Added another Upjohn embossed bottle. Added a new fun fact. Added a new page of products owned by Don Parfet. Updated the Alligator Bags page with photos of real alligator skin Upjohn bags. Added a section on the History of Officers and Directors. Added search functionality to the website. Updated the Scope Monographs section. Added a page on wooden shipping boxes. Added Key Upjohn Patents displayed in Don Parfet's office.

March 2025 - Added a section on Pharmacia & Upjohn (P&U), the short-lived successor to The Upjohn Company. Added another page of photos of Upjohn products. Added a new page on Zymadrops toy boats. Added 7 new advertising items. Updated the photos in Jeremy's collection.

 

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