July 2024
- The definitive book about The Upjohn Company is "A Century of
Caring". It is now available
on this web site. Added
New Employee group photos from the
1950s,
1960s and
1970s. Added a new
Upjohn Fun Fact. Added a 1970 Intercom article
introducing Upjohn Homemakers. Added
a page on Missuky
cosmetics. Added a page on the
Plastics
Products operation in Kalamazoo. Added more information on
the clinical unit
within Jackson Prison. Added a page on
Upjohn Laboratory Procedures.
Added more information about
Asgrow. Added a page
on the Jasper Clinical
Investigation Center. Added a page on
Upjohn Diagnostics. Added
a page on the Morgue. Added
a page on Gelfoam and
Gelfilm.
June 2024
- Einar Goerland has been sending me a lot of documents and I've
put them all in a new section -
Memories of the Polymer
Chemical and CPR Divisions. Added these to the
products
page - Potassium Carbonate USP, Provera Tablets, Motrin IB
Caplets, Motrin IB Caplets for Sinus, Pentacresol Disinfecting
Solution, Mercresin Tincture and Kaopectate Maximum Strength
Caplets. Added a section on the
Employee Pharmacy. Added
a list of
Official Product Names and a list of
Acronyns,
Initialisms and Symbols. Added a
WWII-era
production photo.
May 2024
- Added Mycipo Dusting Powder to the
Products
Page. Added a photo of a
1983-84 basketball team.
April 2024
- Added an 1957
Upjohn Award
for Keith Edmondson. Added seven bottles to the
Products
Page. Added a couple of
long service
gold pins. Added a photo of a clock commemorating the opening of
the Tsukuba research labs
in Japan. Added an Upjohn sweat-shirt and a PNU t-shirt on the shirts
page. Added a pic of the first production order from the
plastic product
manufacturing operation in Building 248. Added a
new fun fact. Added a
Panalba matchbook
cover.
March 2024
- Added a page of Upjohn
Stories That Probably Shouldn't be Told. Added a
service award
watch from 1947. Added a
late 1940s photo
of an Upjohn group at a New York City club. Add a bottle of
Laxsaline on the
Products
page. Added a glass decanter to the
Centennial
page. Added a page of
matchbook covers.
February 2024
- Added a
Vacation Needs - Kaopectate handout. Added a Sodium
Salicylate and Iodide with Colchicine on the
Products
page. Added a
Mileage, Gas, Time and Cost Saver ruler.
January 2024
- Added five new photos at the top of the
Products
page. Added a new fun fact.
December 2023
- Added two security patches.
Added a
box of Impenetro to the Products page. Added a
2-cent Narcotic stamp
used by Upjohn. Added a
K-Wings/Maolate Tablets
pencil holder.
November 2023
- Added a page on the
Upjohn Diet
Service. Added a Tincture Mercresin blotter on Carol
Orris's new
items page.
October 2023
- Added Nausea Tablets (contains cocaine), Tonic (Aitken) and
Sterile Penicillin G Sodium to the
Products
page.
September 2023
- Added a bottle of
Heroin
Compound Syrup on the Products page.
August 2023
- Added a new fun fact. The
1946-1962 collection of Upjohn News magazines have all been
converted to a format that is more easily read. Check them out
at
this link. Added a
Mixture
Opium and Glycyrrhiza bottle, an
Ipecac
and Opium Powder bottle and a
Bismuth
Ethyl Camphorate bottle. Added a
Xanax XR clock.