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In 1986, while Manville was in bankruptcy and facing asbestos lawsuits, Barbara Diem of Manville read every issue of Asbestos, the industry's trade monthly, and summarized the ones she took material from. Her summary, marked "Attorney's Work Product", went to about fifteen people in the company in two parts: 1919–1939 in April 1986 and 1940–1949 in October 1986. This copy runs to December 1953. It holds about 1,650 dated excerpts and notes, each citing the issue and page. One page, covering October and November 1952, is missing from it, and the page for December 1952 appears twice, the second time retyped with corrections.
- Author
- Barbara Diem
- Published by
- Manville Corporation
- Date
- 1986–1987
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 10009 · asbestosclaims.law/library/10009
- Rights
- From the Johns-Manville corporate archive. Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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What it covers
Her cover memo lists the subjects she was looking for: the introduction of J-M products, the use of asbestos in the First World War, the opening of J-M plants and what each made, specifications and standards, fiber and product markets, trade associations, and the use of asbestos in various industries. She left out the magazine's statistics, which she kept in separate notebooks, as well as its brake-lining news and its patents. Items on worker health are few. Those that are there include the magazine's notes on pulmonary asbestosis in 1928 and 1929.
Using it with the magazine
Every entry in the summary is also on the matching year's page of the Asbestos Magazine archive, under "Johns-Manville's notes". Each one links to the magazine page it cites, so you can read the original, and to the page of this summary it comes from. The entries on dust, disease and worker safety are collected in What Asbestos Magazine Told the Industry About Dust and Disease.
Cited on this site
- Asbestos Magazine, 1919
- Asbestos Magazine, 1920
- Asbestos Magazine, 1921
- Asbestos Magazine, 1922
- Asbestos Magazine, 1923
- Asbestos Magazine, 1924
- Asbestos Magazine, 1925
- Asbestos Magazine, 1926
- Asbestos Magazine, 1927
- Asbestos Magazine, 1928
- Asbestos Magazine, 1929
- Asbestos Magazine, 1930
- Asbestos Magazine, 1931
- Asbestos Magazine, 1932
- Asbestos Magazine, 1933
- Asbestos Magazine, 1934
- Asbestos Magazine, 1935
- Asbestos Magazine, 1936
- Asbestos Magazine, 1937
- Asbestos Magazine, 1938
- Asbestos Magazine, 1939
- Asbestos Magazine, 1940
- Asbestos Magazine, 1941
- Asbestos Magazine, 1942
- Asbestos Magazine, 1943
- Asbestos Magazine, 1944
- Asbestos Magazine, 1945
- Asbestos Magazine, 1946
- Asbestos Magazine, 1947
- Asbestos Magazine, 1948
- Asbestos Magazine, 1949
- Asbestos Magazine, 1950
- Asbestos Magazine, 1951
- Asbestos Magazine, 1952
- Asbestos Magazine, 1953
- Asbestos Magazine
- Lewis H. Brown
- What Asbestos Magazine Told the Industry About Dust and Disease
Cite this document
Barbara Diem. “Asbestos Magazine Summary, 1919–1953 (Manville, 1986).” 1986–1987. Manville Corporation. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 10009. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/10009.
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