I am waist deep into my thesis research, with a current focus on the Asbestos Containing Material on the Illinois State Beach Park. Just to set the baseline, as of April 1980, even the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States recognized that kids and asbestos do not mix. As stated by the EPA: “It…
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My third thesis for the Masters in History program will likely involve tracking asbestos (primarily blue) sold by Cape Asbestos in South Africa to Johns-Manville for use in the JM Waukegan, Illinois site and which, over time, found itself into Lake Michigan, onto the Illinois beaches, or as being within the superfund clean-up site. The…
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Below is a listing with hot links to each of my 150 asbestos history blogs since December 2020. It has been a wonderful three years and I appreciate the interest so many of my friends have shown. My total view count is about to reach 22,000 for these last three years. My blogs are intended…
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My Blog is somewhat brief today as I am up to my eyeballs with reading and writing for the Masters in History class at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In 1931, Johns-Manville published a book (or a collection of brochures) discussing the products it was selling. You can pick up an electronic copy…
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I posted my first Asbestos-Related blog just prior to entering the Masters of History program here at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in January 2021. I am about to reach 20,000 views in just under three years and am honored with your interest. For those who were not with me at the start…
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The asbestos wrongful death claim by the Estate of Paul Stepka filed in January 1932 against Johns-Manville in the New Jersey Supreme Court was not the first such case to be filed, but it is a good representation of what JM knew at that time. I grabbed it from the Motley 1000 documents put together…
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This is big news to those of us who research Johns-Manville history. The JM Claims Research Facility in Denver, Colorado will no longer allow scheduled appointments for in-person research. Starting July 1, 2023, all contacts are by phone or email which means, of course, that getting your eyeballs on the correct documents will be a…
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If my discussion last week at https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=11018 on asbestos containing products available one-hundred years ago wasn’t enough, I have attached at https://theasbestosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/JM-Power-Users-1920-Material.pdf a 167 page publication by Johns-Manville from 1920 which discusses in exquisite detail all of its building materials. The Table of Contents is as follows: Also, for those of you who wonder whether…
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As my readership continues to grow, I like to periodically provide a searchable summary of my prior blog topics, just in case a reader would like to search for a specific topic. My prior posts of this list have drawn a lot of readers. As such, my prior asbestos blog posts are as follows: Blog…
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This blog is a little short as I am still focusing on my research thesis entitled “Asbestos-Related Issues Impacting Bangladesh Shipbreaking Laborers.” I should complete that project within a couple of weeks. For this blog, let’s talk paint. I happen to have a H.W. Johns’ manual from March 1, 1877 (yes, over 150 years ago)…
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