A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Table of Contents: Something old, something really snazzy; Venturing into the 8th continent; Shipshape with Tyvek; Now you see it, now you don't; Leadero f the pack; Hello, Teflon; The sound of harpsichord music; Jean therapy; From the ground up;...
Table of Contents: A new home in Tennessee; Ocean deep, tower high; Speedup in the darkroom; Look who's shopping now; Report on dacron; The farmer's million-dollar coat; Stronger muscles for the air arm; Birth of a toothbrush; Those tireless tires;...
Revocation of Executive Order No.2 of May 11th, now allowing volunteer. regiments of Southern sentiments to keep arms, still concern about Maryland especially in lower counties
Bells first instrument-The father Adam of more than 16,000,000 phones now in service in the U.S. This patent was the foundation for what is now the words greaters business organization.
This triple duty Super Constellation, sporting a new military look, is ready to start long haul service with the Military Air Transport Service as a convertible transport that can be quick switched to carry passengers, cargo or hospital litter...
Months ahead of schedule, the Vega Aircraft Corporation plant in Burbank CA is now in full mass production of B-17 Flying Fortresses for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Vega was the first to make deliveries of these heavy bombers under a pooled...
Twenty-one year old Beatrice Vienna and over 450 of her follow employees now ride bicycles to work at Vega Aircraft Corporation to save essential rubber for the war effort. Married to aircraft worker, Art Vienna, Beatrice is one of the many women...
Willow Run MI- Where less than a year ago workmen were still removing bomber machinery, a pair of 2000 foot long Kaiser-Frazer body trim lines now complete 45 bodies an hour each. The gigantic Kaiser-Frazer automobile lat is now equipped with two...
Who said the days of miracle cities in the US are over? Gary, steel town, started on wasteland in 1900, has grown to be a city of 110000 in 1929. This is the spot on which the heart of the city of Gary, Indiana now stands. In a contrast photo you...
Six types of photopolymer printing plates are now available from DuPont's first plant for Dycril at Parlin, New Jersey. These include the large unexposed plate in the background. This and two other types of thin flexible plates, as shown, are now...
The DuPont site at Old Hickory, Tennessee reflects the complexity of the many new products now being made on this location replacing rayon and cellophane which were once manufactured here. The aerial view show the new plants for Corfam poromeric...
View from 200 feet stack at Boiler House looking up Kanawha River. Hydrogen Holder is completely inflated. Note two Ammonia Storage tanks to the right of holder and the guide frame columns of the relief holder at bottom of picture. Club House is at...
Within the last few years, the chemist has developed a new kind of soap. Starting with ordinary vegetable and animal oils, the chemist now makes fatty alcohols which, in combination with sulfuric acid and other chemicals gives a new class of...
Written on back: "so it appeared during R. W. Lukens lifetime. The lower end of the 'mansion' was built, it is believed, in the first quarter of the 18th Century by the Flemings. In 1757 the property passed to the Coates family who added the upper...
Text from back of image: 'And now the motion picture stars are going in seriously for aviation. Wallace Beery an ardent aviation enthusiast has been flying solo for some time and is now being taught to do wing overs, spins, side slips. etc. This...
Text from back of image: "The new Navy airship ZR-1, to be the largest in the world, is now under construction at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, NJ, the photo above showing the frames of the giant ship now being assembled. The hangar is the...
Text from back of image: "Miss Clara Johnson, United Air Lines stewardess, points to the special markings on the 200-mile-an-hour Boeing twin-engined transport which Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn flew in the 13,323-mile London-Melbourne...
