Glen L. Peterman's Webpage

Peterman's Insecticides Resources    Vita and Photo Gallery    Favored Websites

• Peterman's Discovery "Guaranteed to kill bedbugs, roaches and their eggs, and flies"
• Glass Bottles (the earliest ca 1890's)
  
• Victorian Era Style Cans (ca 1900s)
• More Recent Style (early 1930's)
• Later Styles (late 1930s
• Peterman Discovery "Contains 2% DDT"
  
• 1940's Style  
• Peterman's Ant Food   "Guaranteed to kill ants and black beetles"
• Earlier Style (pre-1930's)
• More Recent Style (early 1930's)
• Later Style (late 1930's)
• Peterman's Ant Killer   "Fortified with 2% DDT"
• 1940's Style
• Peterman Quick-Kill for Ants  "Harmless to Humans and Pets" 
• Post DDT?
  
• Peterman's Roach Food   "Guaranteed to kill roaches and water bugs" 
• The Oldest (1890's)
• Almost as Old (1900's)
• More Recent Style (1920's)
• Later Versions (early 1930's)
• The Final Style (mid 1930's) 
• Peterman Quick-Kill for Roaches  "Harmless to Humans and Pets" 
• The Final Product (late 1930's) 
• Peterman's Roach Killer  "Fortified with 2% DDT"
• 1940's Style  
• Peterman's Moth Food  "Protects clothing, carpets from moths" 
• More Recent Style (1930's) 
• Peterman's Flyosan "Gaaranteed not to contain the slightest trace of carbolic acid" 
• from the mid-20s to early 30s?
• Peterman's Prosan "To Kill Flies and Mosquitoes"
• Remains very elusive
• Peterman's KLIX for Chicks "Kills all Lice on Poultry" 
• No idea on the date. 
• Peterman's Ratmouse Food  "Will Clear Buildings of Rats and Mice in One Night"
• Not sure of the date. Pics courtesy of Cousin Jack!
  
• Peterman's Mercuric Oil "Bed Bug Poison"
  
• Cardboard boxed bottles (?) (dated 1898). Pics courtesy of ebay pal Chris!
• Peterman's Smelling Salts  
• Glass Bottle (dated 1898). Pics courtesy of ebay pal Chris!
• Peterman's Insecticides: Ephemera 
• Advertising, print ads, etc!!

• Some other antique insecticide miscellania I've been unable to resist collecting - and would be willing to trade for Peterman's containters.

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Vita 

I'm Director of the Corporate and Foundation Relations Office in the Development Division at Dickinson College,  the first college chartered in the new nation in 1783.  We are a small institution and don't have a formal Sponsored Research Office, so the procurement of government funds for faculty research and institutional projects are also part of my brief. Its great fun.  See our Capital Campaign webpage.

My academic background is in Near Eastern archaeology.  I lived in the Middle East (Jordan) off and on for about 9 years where I honed my skills writing grant proposals - for my own research and to fund projects for the institute for which I was working. Before that I was a career graduate student, a warehouseman (frozen pies, no less!), a bicycle shop manager and mechanic.

I recently learned that I am a great-great-great-great-great grandson of Michael Peterman who arrived in the New World (from Germany via Rotterdam and Cowes) on Sept 29, 1750 (in Philadelphia) aboard the ship Osgood. (see the Peterman Family geneaology website). After growing up all over the country, living in various places and having had many diverse adventures since, I'm still trying to decide what (if anything) it means that:

• I now live less than 45 minutes from the original Peterman farmstead just to the southeast of York, PA.
• I lived for about 15 years in the same town where my great-great-great-great-great-grand-mother Hillegien Poppen Zagers settled after stepping off the boat (in Holland, MI ) after her voyage from the Netherlands. She's buried in Graafschaap Cemetery on the corner of 32nd Street and Graafschaap Road, Holland, MI. I went past that cemetery thousands of times, and had no idea it was her final resting place.

Some Favorite Websites

• Dick Tinder's Virtual Train Watching in Iowa
• CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROADPhotographic History Museum
• The Finnish Archaeological Project in Petra
• Peterman Family Genealogy
• Wonderfully Wacky
• Omni Resources
• the IRIS Seismic Monitor

Photo Gallery

                   Fiberglass pig in Galesburg, IL.

Business end of a railroad rotary snowplow
Steamtown, PA.

                    Electromotive Division (EMD) FP-7                           locomotiveat the Colorado Railroad                         Museum, Golden, CO.
 
 
 
 
 
 

An archaeologist's belt buckle. "Fear of Allah is the greatest wisdom."