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...
The world’s largest and most powerful air cooled airplane engine, the new 18 cylinder 2000 H.P. Wright Duplex-Cyclone, was announced Monday by the War department and is being inspected here by (left to right) VP George Chapline, Chief Engineer...
Hendrick orders a two seated automobile. He adds that if he likes the carriage he might sell them and encourage the young men who work with him to sell them, too. There is a handwritten postscript.
Handwritten on back: "Mary Augusta La Motte Hounsfield and her two children: Alice Hounsfield - Mrs. Victor du Pont (Mrs. Coleman du Pont's mother) Edgar Hounsfield - Uncle Ned"
Letter from Benjamin Bond, of Wabash Mills, asking for two workers to be excused from drill. The workers were members of Company B, (Lammot du Pont's company) Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Schoolboys of San Francisco lined up for inspection in front of their tents at the training camp at Manzanita, CA. This camp was formed exclusively for the school children of San Francisco and the bay cities. The purpose of this camp is to teach...
In the center is the director, Mortimer Stewart, who controls each of the three cameras. By a twist of a knob he brings any of the 3 cameras into the circuit. At the left is Izotta Jewel before one camera (camera in this case refers to the unit...
25 of these giant new type steam locomotive for freight service are being built by the PRR to draw wartime trains of 125 loaded cars at speeds in excess of 50 mph. The new engine develops more power in its working range than any steam locomotive...
The above photographs are fiber diagrams comparing the fiber distribution and length of fibers in Two Top produced by Pacific Mills Worsted Division with other types of top. No. 1 represents a conventional pick carded and combed rayon top. The...
Hendrick writes of his interest in purchasing a locomobile with two seats. H. Warren Cram gave him a ride in one when he visited their place the week before. Hendrick has received their catalogue which includes the Locosurrey. He wants to know if...
The papers of Paul Arthur are comprised of material collected by Dr. Arthur’s sister, Dorothy Arthur from 1967 through the 1988. The Collection is divided into two series. The first contains press releases from the DuPont Company and includes...
Text from back of photo: "Two hours to Boston by seaplane is the schedule of the new Airvia Line which opened July 22nd, with two Savoia-Marchetti, 12-passenger planes, at North Beach, Long Island. Miss Ruth Montgomery was only woman passenger on...
Copy of painting of the American Eagle, which is the ship that brought members of the du Pont family to America in 1800. Typed caption with image: "COPY - December 21, 1946. From records of the former Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation,...
Letter in forming Charles I. du Pont, Thomas Stirling, George Brattan, Isaac Ford, and Robert Miller of their election as honorary members of the "Brandywine Home Guards." The Brandywine Home Guards were two militia companies that later became...
Worries about Delaware Breakwater being unprotected from Southern ships, also two ships for sale in Philadelphia, and one could be fitted at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Admiral Du Pont sending via the steamer Massachusetts, two hundred-pounder rifle bolts (shells) and one forty-pounder recovered at Ft. Pulaskis, fired by sailors from the Wabash. He is sending them to Lammot for safe keeping and so not to alarm his...
