July 2025 - Added a new fun
fact about Rhubarb and Blue
Mass pills.
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.
February 2025 - Added a page about
Phenolax wafers.
Added a 1965 Intercom article about
Gelfoam.
Added a page on the
Blizzard of 1978. Added a page on the
Building 41 clinic.
Added a page on
Libraries.
January 2025 - Added a
129-page
Product Information section from a 1967 sales catalog. Added
a 1989 Product Price List
and a 1991 Product Price List. Carol
Orris and I have created
a
product listing that covers the years 1957 to 1995. This
means the entire product history of The Upjohn Company from 1886
to 1995 is now available!
December 2024 - Added ten
more
Annual Reports.
Added a full copy of the
December 1924 Overflow, the monthly magazine for salesmen. Added
a page on
early employee A.J.Cushman. Added an
aerial photo
of the Portage Site. Added a
1903
Caripeptic Liquid postcard. Added a scan of the
Winter 1994 phone book. Added a complete scan of a
1936 book of prescription products.
November 2024 - Added a scan
of the
Winter
1989/90 phone book. Added a page on the
Great Snowstorm
of 1967. Added a new
fun fact. Added more detail about the
post-1995 mergers and
acquisitions. Added a complete
1977 phone book. Added a page describing how to search
this site for information about a
relative.
October 2024 - Added a
new fun fact. Added an
Orinase match book
cover. Added photos of a
Rogaine
Starter Kit for Men. Added a video containing
Rogaine
Patient Information.
September 2024 - Added more
Upjohn shirts. Added
pics of the DACB product. Added
a
1950-1956 supplement to the catalog for all Upjohn products
since 1886. Added a
Rogaine kit for hair care professionals. Added a page
of Upjohn stock
certificates.
August 2024 - Scanned the entire
publication "Medicine
- Designed for Health - Produced with Care". Scanned
the entire publication "The
Odyssey of Modern Drug Research". Added an
old-style employee badge
for Clair Walters Added a page for
Intercom Extra. Added a couple more
Upjohn Academy
Awards. Added a 1963 publication
The Female Anatomy. Added
a page on Quality and The
Upjohn Company banners. Added a
1984 25th
Year Service Recognition event at Brook Lodge. Added a page
on Harris computers
at Upjohn.