The sales psychology of the self service package is demonstrated by this series of five cakes being shown by the Film Department of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. From the virtually blank package at the upper left, which draws a blank reaction...
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.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Plastics industry; Ammunition;
Table of Contents: What of the new year; Five tons of rock per pound of explosives; More economy in secondary shooting; Whence American dyes; A new way of looking at soap; Dynamite breaks into the movies; Explosives in the lumber industry; DuPont...
Table of Contents: Paris gowns for motor cars; A belting control system; Around the world with Duco; Tree planting with dynamite; Ballistite has been dropped; Inside the bounding main; Dried fruits that demand attention; Protecting blasters on the...
Table of Contents: Age of speed; New Callao Port works; New decortive art in the bindery ; Moving a million yards of earth; Shoes, sans stables, nails or stitches; Shades in toyland; Frosted foods and Cellophane; Thirty-four years of progress at...
Table of Contents: From miscellaneous raw materials; Christmas trees a la 1936; Safety on the high seas; Used cars in the limelight; Aridex; Freon refrigerants are safe; A sportsman's paradise; A few remarks for the gentleman from Schenectady; For...
Circular from Solomon Turck, Vice-President of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company to the company's stockholders calling attention to circulars sent by five of the seven board of directors regarding the good state of the company. Turck, one of the two...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
Barksdale Works; Du Pont Engineering Company; Explosives industry; government contract; Gunpowder manufacturing; Old Hickory Plant; Penninman Plant; Seven Pines Plant; Tullyown Plant; World War I
A new feature for the tobacco counter is this standard box of 25 cigars with two inner tray overwraps and opening tapes. DuPonts suggested insert label calls attention of retailers to added freshness and to novel method for maintaining full...
Six sided selling through informative copy on every side of the package is demonstrated in this series of four steps in DuPonts development of a package for cake. From a rather plain, cellophane-wrapped package (upper left), wherein the cake itself...
Six sided selling through informative copy on every side of the package is demonstrated in this series of four steps in DuPonts development of a package for cake. From a rather plain, cellophane-wrapped package (upper left), wherein the cake itself...
For horizontal or vertical display, this DuPont exhibited package features six sided selling with illustrations for merchandising and calls attention to four quarter pound inner packs.
Architect rendering facade (not as built). The back of the postcard shows the logo of the McCormick Company Inc. ("Architect's & Engineer's Complete Service for Dairy & Ice Cream Plants, 41 Park Row, New York City") and reads "Close attention to...
Text from back of image: "This beacon to guide air pilots at night has been erected near Alexandria, VA, and has been successfully developed, according to Maj. Clarence M. Young, director of aeronautics, Dept. of Commerce. The beacon practically...
Below Cope's Bridge is a high hill (about 70 feet high) known as Deborah's Rock. Legend is that an Indian maiden jumped from the rock to the Brandywine to escape white man's attention. Historians claim it was named for Abiah Taylor's daughter,...
Carte de visite from an album possibly assembled by Henry Algernon du Pont. Handwritten caption: "John Pelham of Alabama. Killed in battle - war of 1861-65. Class-mate at West Point." A native of Alabama, Pelham left West Point before...
