Text from back of image: "The above photo, rushed to Chicago from Tokyo in only four and a half days, by means of the Graf Zeppelin and the U. S. Airmail, shows the giant dirigible on its arrival at the Kasumigaura Naval Air Station in Japan August...
Photographs from a trip taken by Hugh Rodney Sharp and Isabella Mathieu (du Pont) Sharp around the world in 1921. Photographs are of Japan, Mt. Fuji in Japan, and Canton, China.
Table of Contents: The world of plastics; Building in the Arctic; Jersey for the whole family; Evaporating washday drudgery; Industry's versatile bristle; Special assignments; Queen of quarries; Teflon in the electrical industry; You won't believe...
Table of Contents: A year of progress; Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius; Detective stories or pure knowledge; Duco in Japan; Trains in colors; The iron ore industry of the lake superior district; Builders of good will; Color goes into the movies;...
Includes articles: Friendly Competition Indicates Real Progress, by Edward P. Morse; Germany Makes Progress in Shipping; An Example of Morse Workmanship (on finishing S.S. Munamar); Explains Norway's Shipping Program; Our Viewpoint from the...
This photograph shows a camphor flaker at the camphor plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Deepwater Point NJ. At this plant camphor is manufactured for medical as well as industrial use. This latter is known as technical camphor. Technical...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for L & R Organics Products Co., Inc., records. The records of L. & R. Organic Products Co., Inc., are a fragment that had been
preserved in the old building and were discovered by a new owner in 2006. The records consist of files...
Text from back of image: 'A committee headed by Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. presented the round the world pilots with a gift of beautiful Portland roses just before they left the aviation field at Vancouver, Wash. (Photo shows Mayor...
Text from back of image: "Squadron-leader A. Stuart MacLaren's farewell kiss to his wife just before the huge British amphibian plane 'Vulture,' from which he is shown leaning out, just before the start of England's own 25,000 mile round-the-world...
Text from back of image: "Squadron-Leader A. Stuart MacLaren (navigator), flying-officer J. Fenderleigh (pilot) and Sergeant Andrews (mechanic) commenced their attempt to fly around the world in 'the Vulture' a huge amphibian plane recently from...
Text from back of image: "The above photo shows Major General Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service with collection of trophies won by the Army airmen. The wreath shown in picture was presented by Japan to the World Flyers, also the Locatelli...
Text from back of image: "This is the latest picture of the Prince Regent of Japan taken when he was inspecting the Kasumigaura aviation post near Tokyo where British naval aviators are training the Jap[anese] airmen. The prince is standing in the...
Text from back of image: "A very spectacular scene was staged during the great air pageant, at Yoyogi Fields, in Japan, when over a hundred airplanes staged a 'smoke battle' up among the clouds. This photo shows two of the planes making a smoke...
Copy of painting, ""The Boatgirl of Macao"" by Chinery. Written caption: "Location: 1973 - Admiral S.F. du Pont Library, Eleutherian Mills Residence. Acquired by Adm S.F. du Pont during a voyage to China, Japan, and India, 1857-1859."
Nearly seven million yards of bands, bindings and braids are produced annually in the Weaving Department, of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia, requiring more than forty thousand pounds of raw silk, imported from Japan and Italy. All the...
Handwritten on back: "Left: Umbrella Carrier, Willard L. McEwan. Right, the Mikado of Japan, W.W. Laird, Jr. Performance of the Mikado, Longwood Theatre, August 4, 5, 6, 1938."
Snapshots; Vacations; Ships; Indigenous peoples; Umbrellas; Trees
Photographs from a trip taken by Hugh Rodney Sharp and Isabella Mathieu (du Pont) Sharp around the world in 1921. Photographs are of leaving San Francisco, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Japan.
