Stereoscope card showing damage from a magazine explosion. Handwritten on back: "These two homes stood within 200 yards east of magazine the first was Quinn Home, the second was Mortimers & occupied by Burkhard."
Stereoscope card showing damage caused by the explosion of Weldy & Company's magazine on 18 August 1878. Handwritten on back: "L & R magazine 125 yards from ours."
Letter from Walter A. Johnson of "The Field" magazine to William du Pont promoting the magazine and advertising space in the magazine for du Pont to advertise his horse breeding. Also included is a full color copy-proof of the front cover of the...
October 1956 Electricity on the Farm Magazine issue containing articles and advertisements for using electricity and electric appliances on a farm setting.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: DuPont Gelatin Blasts Tunnels Under the Mississippi; Dynamite Extinguishes Mine Fire; The Blast Heard 'Round the World; Practical Explosives' Efficiency; DuPont Blasting Gelatin Not Low Freezing; Foresight and Hindsight; Lighting...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Conservation; Excavating Lake Washington Canal; Dependability; Smokeless Bananas; Ballistite Unhurt by Three Months' Immersion; Practical Explosives Efficiency; Two or More Electric Blasting Caps in a Bore Hole; Depth of Charges...
Bogue called to Mayor's office in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and questioned amount of powder at the magazine and on selling powder to the South, mentions he does sell to stores in Virginia, needs advice of DuPont to stop selling. Mayor mentions...
Mentions rumor of men coming from Maryland to rob the Delaware magazine, 4 nephews and other men went to guard it, and men from Pennsylvania will be camped at Brandywine Springs for protections as well. Also, mentions need for Lincoln to force...