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December 2025 - Added a photo of small Upjohn dolls.   

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.

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!

 

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