Collection guide; Insurance and financial industry
Collection guide for Insurance Society of Philadelphia records. The records consist of two series culled from
the Society’s library: vertical files and scrapbooks.
This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
Smith mentions obtaining insurance on Grinnell, Minturn and Company's first gunpowder shipment, financial matters, and shipping brimstone and gunpowder.
Smith discusses financial matters, gunpowder shipments, sending items to DuPont, and insurance on Grinnell, Minturn and Company's first gunpowder order.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Fashion industry; Textile industry; Golf; Packaging; Model ships; Rubber; Airplanes;
Table of Contents: Season for striking similarities; Metals bonded with a bang; The swing to indoor golf; Packaging's versitile vessels; Spraying savings underfoot; From potter's wheel to precious plate; Maritime history in miniature; Nordel new...