Ward gives an update on the situation in Texas and writes about the difficulty of receiving payment from the Texas government for du Pont gunpowder sold to Texas in 1842.
on front of card: "Joy Court. Sweetwater, Texas. "On the Broadway of America - Hiway No. 80." on back of card: "Joy Court. Hiway 80. Sweetwater, Texas. One of the largest and finest tourist camps in West Texas, Cottages with every modern...
Artificial rubber industry; Chemical industry; Explosives; Factories; Nylon; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon; Research; Textile industry
Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects: expansion of the Experimental Station in...
Caprolactam, an intermediate chemical for type 6 nylon fiber and plastics, is being manufactured in this new plant at Beaumont, Texas. The DuPont Company's first caprolactam plant is the results of a longer term research effort by its Explosives...
The nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works located near Orange, Texas. At this plant, the Plastics Department uses high pressure techniques to convert products of the Texas oil industry into many chemicals.
Open buildings, typical of modern chemical plants, characterize manufacturing units at DuPont's Victoria. Texas plant. This plant, part of a 550 million dollar postwar building program, makes a chemical known as adiponitrile, used in the...
Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these. The plant makes adiponitrile from butadiene, a petroleum product. The plant's entire output is shipped to the company's big Sabine River...
The instruments in the control room at DuPont's Victoria Texas plant serve both as a reporter and regulator. A meter, for example, controlling the flow of a liquid sends a report to another device set to the required standard. A third instrument...
Control room at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant has 185 dials and gauges on huge panel board. Just as a living room thermostat controls a heating source in the basement, so this device governs the process, with an operator watching production flow...
Victoria, Texas plant operated by the Plastics Department of the DuPont Company produces an important intermediate chemical used in making nylon fibers and plastics. The open structure of this processing building is typical of the new look in the...
on front of card: "Palmetto Courts...1954 E. Houston Street... San Antonio, Texas." on back of card: "Palmetto Courts--1954 E. Houston St., San Antonio, Texas. Ph. GArfield 4702. 12 blocks East of Post Office. Each Unit with Kitchenette and...
on front of card: "San Antonio, Texas Seafood Headquarters 3130 Broadway." on back of card: "Christie's. 3130 Broadway. San Antonio, Texas. Headquarters for freshest seafood. Shipped daily to us from our own fleet. K.C. Steaks and chicken...
Written on back: "Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water."...
Written on back: "Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water."...
4th Del. Regiment going to Texas, Ellen discusses Lammot being a lot of talk and a loose cannon, also mentions Mrs. Belin is very sick, likely to die in the Winter
