The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
Caption text on photo: "Out of an inexhaustible source of raw materials – coal, air and water – chemists in recent years have been producing new and vitally important products for modern life. Among these are textiles, dyes, antifreeze...
The papers of Paul Arthur are comprised of material collected by Dr. Arthur’s sister, Dorothy Arthur from 1967 through the 1988. The Collection is divided into two series. The first contains press releases from the DuPont Company and includes...
Chemically Inert Plastic.
Caption text on photo: "From a boiling bath of hot sulfuric acid, a laboratory technician lifts two rods of plastic. One has charred and deteriorated. The other – a rod of DuPont's 'Teflon' tetrafluoroethylene resin...
Back row standing – J.J. Raskob, R.R.M. Carpenter, William Coyne, F.G. Tallman
Front row sitting – F.L. Connable, H.G. Haskell, Irenee du Pont, H. Fletcher Brown, Lammot du Pont
Shape wire specimens in cross section
Text on photo: "Shape wire has countless uses including the making of small machine parts. Cold drawn in long lengths by American Steel & Wire Company. Collection numbers 785 pieces – no duplicates. ...
Caption text on photo: "In this laboratory at the Experimental Station of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, near Wilmington, Delaware, experiments are carried out on the molding characteristics of plastic materials. Such experiments are carried...
Stock exchanges; Stockbrokers; Depressions; Business panics; Business & finance;
Text on back: "Turning back to the days of prosperity – The grain pit on the trading floor of the St. Louis Merchant's Exchange again displayed activity reminiscent of the feverish war-time buying, when the bulls held sway and bid wheat and corn...
Text on back: "'Okies' are always on the move – types that go to California to better their life of farm tenancy are all called Okies, whether they are from Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, or Colorado. Some are going, some are returning. Okies can...
DuPont Company's Rayon Department acetate textile fibers plant in Waynesboro, Virginia. Text from caption: "Amount of pulp used per acetator per day now, in same acetatot as shown in other picture. Waynesboro Works – received from R.V. Hersey."
Scents differentiated by color of bottle top, rather than by name. Right to left: Green (citrus), Silver (leather – woodsy, mossy), Red (spice), Gold (modern floral blend)
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Text from image #812: "Steel Tug Boat built for Bartram Bros., San Domingo, christened "Elisa". Length 46'-0". Beam 14'-0". Depth 5'-6". Eng. #866 – 10"x12".
