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Chestnut colt #6
Horses; Horse boarding and training facilities;
PICTURED ..-■ -mm - #6 PENNYWISE-FAIRYMANT Chestnut colt Irregular Star; grey spot off(leftjnostril Left foreleg - above ankle Right TT above ankle Right Hind leg - white above ankle running down on inside Left XKXgK Rump - black spot Few...
William du Pont Collection

Plane Refuels from Another 2500 Feet Above City of Dallas
Airplanes;
Text from back of image: "Two hundred gallons of gasoline were transferred to the army tri-motored Fokker plane 'Question Mark,' 2500 feet above Dallas, TX, Dec. 20. The supply ship, a Douglass biplane, dropped a hose end while flying directly...
Lammot du Pont, Jr. Aeronautical Collection, 1783-1950

Workmen putting the final trims above the Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.
Dams; Water power;
The sleek face of Boulder Dam looks down the Colorado River while workmen put the final trims above it. PWA funds allotted to the Bureau of Reclamation enabled rushing the dam to completion.
Nations Business Photograph Collection

View of recovery units
At Camden, South Carolina spires of industry rise above the woods and fields of nearby Kershaw County, where E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company has built the first full scale commercial plant for manufacturing Orlon acrylic fiber in the world. Above...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

View of recovery units
At Camden, South Carolina spires of industry rise above the woods and fields of nearby Kershaw County, where E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company has built the first full scale commercial plant for manufacturing Orlon acrylic fiber in the world. Above...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Solvent scrubbing tower at the May Plant
At Camden, South Carolina spires of industry rise above the woods and fields of nearby Kershaw County, where E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company has built the first full scale commercial plant for manufacturing Orlon acrylic fiber in the world. Above...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Solvent scrubbing tower at the May Plant
At Camden, South Carolina spires of industry rise above the woods and fields of nearby Kershaw County, where E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company has built the first full scale commercial plant for manufacturing Orlon acrylic fiber in the world. Above...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Spires of industry
At Camden, South Carolina spires of industry rise above the woods and fields of nearby Kershaw County, where E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company has built the first full scale commercial plant for manufacturing Orlon acrylic fiber in the world. Above...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Stainless steel wire, shown above, is just out of the water quench which follows the DuPont sodium hydride bath
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

At scheduled intervals the operator replenishes the sodium supply for the hydride bath by placing sodium bricks into the sodium hydride generator boxes as is shown above
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Replenishing the sodium supply into the molten caustic bath is a simple operation as is shown above. The operator places sodium bricks into the generator boxes at scheduled intervals
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

A Balloon Prospect from Above the Clouds
Balloons (Aircraft);
Illustration from Airopaidia: Containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion published in 1786 by Thomas Baldwin; "A Balloon Prospect from Above the Clouds"
Lammot du Pont, Jr. Aeronautical Collection, 1783-1950

Wins Second Place in Gordon Bennett Balloon Race
Balloons (Aircraft); Balloon racing;
Text from back of image: "Captain Ernest de Muyter, of Belgium (holding American flag) above, at Adams, Mass., where he landed after flight from Cleveland, Ohio, start of the 1930 Gordon Balloon Race, was adjudged unofficial second place, to War T....
Lammot du Pont, Jr. Aeronautical Collection, 1783-1950

Ski-Planing Is New Aviation Sport
Airplanes; Skiing;
Text from back of image: "Additional spectacular experiments in freak and contact…were made the other day when Lawrence B. Sperry, former lieutenant in the aviation service, attached steel runners to his plane and, with two skiers 'hitching on...
Lammot du Pont, Jr. Aeronautical Collection, 1783-1950

Carroll Flies to Capital to Face Senators
Airplanes; Air pilots;
Text from back of image: "The above photo shows left to right Lieut. Samuel Connell and Earl Carroll in a big army plane in which he flew to Washington to face the Senate Committee considering the bill to permit use of copyrighted music over the...
Lammot du Pont, Jr. Aeronautical Collection, 1783-1950

Above Glenmoore
On a road from Isabella Furnace, Frank Zebley took this picture of a home with an unusual chimney above the village of Glenmoore.
Zebley-Hoffecker Collection

Market Street Bridge (above)
A view above Market Street Bridge that shows Grammar School number 24 to the left in the background.
Zebley-Hoffecker Collection

Blasting at Ripple Rock, Seymour Narrows, British Columbia
Blasting; Explosives; Ships
Typed caption: "Long a menace to navigation, Ripple Rock used to lie in Seymour Narrows, above, 120 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. If the peaks of the rock had been visible they would have appeared directly above the freighter's...
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