Eagle-Picher historical research
Eagle-Picher: Historical Company and Product Library
Follow the company, insulating cements, industrial work, and documentary record.
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Eagle-Picher Company Timeline
A historical orientation from diversified manufacturing to the asbestos bankruptcy.
Explore history →Super 66 and Eagle 66 Insulating Cement
A product-name change that may help connect memories across decades.
Explore history →Eagle-Picher Insulating and Finishing Cements
Understand the difference between a family of products and a named formulation.
Explore history →Eagle-Picher: Workplaces, Trades and Memory
Use the setting, coworkers and work processes to reconstruct an industrial history.
Explore history →Eagle-Picher: Bankruptcy and Trust History
Understand the historical proceedings and why the different trusts matter.
Explore history →Eagle-Picher Original Records and Research Sources
Read the federal notice, court opinions and bankruptcy research underlying this history.
Explore history →A company remembered in different ways
Eagle-Picher operated in several industries. A remembered Eagle-Picher battery, a plant name, or an insulating cement is a starting point, not proof that the same product or facility involved asbestos.
Recognizing the insulation work
Think of bags of dry insulating cement, mixing containers, trowels, hot pipes, boilers, turbines, repair shutdowns, and crews finishing insulation. The product label and work date help distinguish a brand from a generic material.
Where to go next
Explore the cement names, company timeline, workplaces and original records. The pages distinguish documented product history from memories that require further investigation.
Original historical records
Follow the underlying federal notices, court decisions and bankruptcy history.
Manufacturing and product relationships
Product and workplace history
New York records and product recognition
Brooklyn Navy Yard and Eagle 66 →
A published Second Circuit opinion places a named insulation cement in a World War II shipyard dispute.
New York worksite records →
Recognize employers and distinguish trust-list entries from individual work histories.
Super 66 and One-Cote recognition guide →
Compare historical appearance, finishing work and product chronology.
New York workplaces and evidence
Niagara Mohawk: named New York locations →
Trace the dated trust-list geography from the North Country through the Mohawk Valley and western New York.
How worksite records differ →
Read named-product testimony, a bankruptcy-era opinion and a negative product identification side by side.
Product schedules and work processes
Five historical Eagle-Picher cement names →
Original manufacturer schedule with dates and product descriptions.
Insulation systems and work processes →
Original industrial specification and product-identification testimony.
Start with what you remember
A product name, job, coworker, photograph or date can help reconstruct the history.