Letter from Ethicon Suture Laboratories Incorporated to its customers regarding the company's inability to produce tennis racket gut strings due to its focus on war-time and post-war production of surgical sutures.
Tennis rackets; Surgical instruments; War work; War relief; Correspondence;
Question and answer article on the tennis career of Margaret Osborne du Pont originally published in British Lawn Tennis and Squash Manual of Instruction.
Photograph print of a tennis lesson at Conrad High School in Wlimington, Delaware. The caption reads "Class at Conrad High School showing information relative to the free tennis instruction program sponsored by DLTA."
Newspaper article featuring Margaret Varner, tennis champion and resident of Bellevue, Delaware. Varner worked closely with Margaret Osborne du Pont, William du Pont, Jr.'s second wife and tennis champion, in the area of promoting women's tennis...
Letter from William du Pont, Jr. to Bill Tilden, legendary professional tennis champion, urging him to try the du Pont company's new nylon tennis strings in an experiment to test the new product.
Brochure containing a catalog of recreation activities for the 1957 season at the Arden Community Recreation Association in Arden, Delaware. The brochure was sent to William du Pont, Jr. with a letter requesting financial assistance in...
Letter from John A. Perkins, President of the University of Delaware from 1950-1967, thanking William du Pont Jr. for his contribution towards new tennis courts at University of Delaware.
