Lycra spandex fiber, wrapped in cellophane for shipping, is checked by inspectors at DuPont plant in Waynesboro, Virginia where the product is manufactured. This picture was taken as yarn buggies wait to be wheeled to the shipping area where the...
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...
This walnut paneled room was situated on the 8th floor, Section 4 of the DuPont Building in the location of present rooms 8060-62-64. It was dismantled and the space converted to office rental in 1930, at the completion of the 6th section, which...
Letter from William du Pont Sr. to his father from England where he traveled with his Aunt Eleuthera. He discusses his time spent in Chester, Eaton Hall and Windermere where he greatly admires the flora and landscape.
Military organizations; Military mobilizations; Soldiers; Military officers
Roster of officers and enlisted men of Company B (Lammot du Pont's company), 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry. The roster includes names, ages, where the men lived, and brief comments on some individuals.
This is the first Ford car with Henry Ford at the tiller. The photograph was made last May in Greenfield Village, Dearborn where the first Ford is preserved in the original workshop where it was constructed in 1896.
text on back: Old Louviers Wool Mill where metal kegs were made til 1884 when DuPont Comapny took over and process was moved to Henry Clay cotton factory
Lycra spandex fiber in production at the DuPont Company's plant in Waynesboro, Virginia undergoes a double check before shipping, Inspectress in background certifies yarn for shipping, wraps it in cellophane and racks it on shipping buggy. The...
Titanium metal is ductile and readily workable, as illustrated by these sample sheets, tubes and bars which were fabricated from DuPont metal on normal steel working equipment. Titanium has excellent strength-weight ratio and outstanding corrosion...
This 2500 ton, half block long extrusion press is a feature of the new DuPont Metals Center at Baltimore, where commercial production of mill products of columbium metal and alloys recently got underway. The big press has unique heating and...
The glass blower is indispensable to the modern research lab. At the Experimental Station located near Wilmington, Delaware a glass blower's shop is maintained where special apparatus necessary for research is fashioned. Some of the pieces...
Where an art abets a science. Glass blowers supply chemists with special laboratory apparatus essential to exploring chemical world. Here a glass blower gives final form to a part for high vacuum still used in chemical research at the Experiment...
Powder is dried and polished in glaze mill, shown in photo, where coating of graphite is also applied to protect it from moisture. Tumbling in large drums for 8 hours accomplished entire operation. Finished powder then goes to pack houses, where it...
Written on back: "7 Anna Roobyan CIV. 10 Takohee Kushbuloodyan XCVII." Detail: "TAKOHEE KUSHBOOLOODIAN is a little girl who was nine years old in 1922. She has lost her parents in the recent troubles, but was rescued by Miss Salmond and taken...
text on back: Old Louviers Wool Mill where metal kegs were made til 1884 when DuPont Company took over and process was moved to Henry Clay cotton factory
Koester Garage on left; railroad bridge where Concord Avenue becomes Concord Pike in background. Where Concord Avenue becomes Concord Pike near Broom Street.
Written on back: "This mill known as 500lb mill. Rolling mill where charcoal, brinstone (sulphur) nitrate or soda were mixed. Dam at top of the falls and a flume @ 545' carried water down to the turbine which drove the machinery for the mill. Flume...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Firearms; Gasoline; Textile industry; Plastics industry;
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