Hendrick's inquiries into the comapany's standing have not been answered to his satisfaction. He will not advance money for a carriage until the company can prove that he is safe in advancing them money.
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...
Tintype of Robert Smalls, who along with sixteen other slaves sailed the Confederate steamer "Planter" out of Charleston Harbor and into the hands of the U.S. Navy's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 13 May 1862. Smalls and his accomplices...
McCall advises the DuPont company to transfer the sale of powder to Bowers, Osborn & Company. He writes of the difficulty of paying the DuPont Company the money Winter & McCall owed because of Winter & McCall's financial situation and because of a...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: The Wonders of Nitro-Cellulose; Monkeying with the Buzzsaw; Military Shooting; 1913 Eastern Handicap; DuPont Dynamite Digs Big Canal; Farming with Dynamite; Dynamite as a Snake Killer; How Galvanometers Save Money.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Rubber; Plastics industry; Nylon; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: I remember rubber; Lighting up with lucite; Coming, better protein from cereal foods; These paper profits are real; Business's economic forecasters; Precision machining of teflon; fit for a sporting life, mycoban chases cheese...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Metallurgical industry; Clothing industry; Plastics industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: Metals for a new age; Inside look at outerwear; From Fairfield to outer space and back; For the car in your future; New formula for freshman chemistry; Visit with June; Tankers to Texas; A new and better bleach; Give me mountain...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Plastics industry; Shoe industry; Livestock;
Table of Contents: Food for the fifth plate; I'm a one-suitcase man; Sales pitch in the parlor; Small package, big punch; He saw through his invention; Bucket-brigade research; Now it's dustless; The more compleat angler; Making money from smoke;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Merry Christmas; Protect America's Game; Blasting an Ocean Channel; Progress in Explosives Transportation; Storage Outside City Limits; Farming with Dynamite; Sport at the Traps; Rheostats as Money Savers; Women Shooters Win.
Table of Contents: New York air show; The world in word and picture; Wood preservation an economic gain; The money value of game; DuPont laquer on cables; Handbags in the spotlight; See how the shoe fits; Do you keep a diary; Pinar Del Rio to...
Table of Contents: Costly indium now obtained by electrolysis; Made by men for menA modern cellini, Winold Reiss; Why you pay good money for moisture; Skeet, a year-round sport; The human hand was the first comb; To irrigate 80,000 acres of Idaho's...
Table of Contents: The paint industry in review; Like a gigantic finger reaching to the sky; Speaking of specs; Shall we save money on textbooks; The inside story of ethyl gasoline; Packages are mergine, too; Keeping up with New York's thirst;...
Letter to his father informing him of his new residence in Boston while he attends MIT. He also asks for more money on account of having to spend so much for schoolbooks and other supplies. William also mentions that he is concerned for his eyes...
Letter from William du Pont to his father while attending MIT. In addition to asking for more money on account of his doctor's bills and clothes washing, William expresses concern over passing his upcoming examinations, though he says he will do...
Accounting of money spent on rations for the 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry while at Fort Delaware, July 1863. Includes a specific breakdown of food expenses for Company B (Lammot du Pont's company).
