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...
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...
Receipt from Ferdinand Arras acknowledging payment for cleaning muskets during September, 1862 for Lammot du Pont's militia company. This company later became Company B, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Receipt from Ferdinand Arras acknowledging payment for cleaning muskets during August, 1862 for Lammot du Pont's militia company. This company later became Company B, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Receipt from Ferdinand Arras acknowledging payment for cleaning muskets during October, 1862 for Lammot du Pont's militia company. This company later became Company B, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Collection guide for John J. Raskob Papers documenting the life and accomplishments of one of the most prominent figures in pre-New Deal business and politics. Raskob had a lifelong business and personal association with Pierre S. du Pont, and...
Burned Wilson Line ship used as a pleasure tour boat. Joseph Wilson and son, Horace, formed the Wilmington Steamboat Company in 1882. In 1888, it became the Wilson Line and owned three steamboat ships. It developed excursion trips from...
Burned Wilson Line ship used as a pleasure tour boat. Joseph Wilson and son, Horace, formed the Wilmington Steamboat Company in 1882. In 1888, it became the Wilson Line and owned three steamboat ships. It developed excursion trips from...
Letter from William du Pont, Jr. to his cousin Pierre Samuel du Pont. P.S. du Pont was the owner of the Longwood Estate, which later became what is now the public garden attraction Longwood Gardens.
Published transcript of the speech Henry Algernon du Pont delivered at the unveiling of the monument to Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur on the Cedar Creek Battlefield in Virginia. Du Pont gave the address on 16 September, 1920. Ramseur, a...
Military organizations; Clothing & dress; Military uniforms
List of materials needed to make uniforms for the members of "Company A." This list includes the names of men in the company along with the exact amount of material needed to make their uniform. "Company A" is most likely a militia company called...
Anne Hathaway's cottage became the trademark for Avon in the 1930's. the cottage was the home of William Shakespeare wife, this is just a few miles from Stratford-on-Avon
Many Americans will soon have their first opportunity to enjoy genuinely low cost transportation with the arrival of the low price 1951 Kaiser. This is the automobile that was conceived by mandate of the motoring public and which became a reality...
First official tests of transmitting of photographs by radio from Europe to the United States. Another marvel of the age became fact when photographs were transmitted from England to the United States by radio by the Radio Corporation of America...
Caption: "Superintendant's Home, Brandywine Plant, across from Hagley Office. This dwelling house is near the Lower Hagley Works, diagonally across the road from the former Christ Church Sunday School Building, the latter better known as the Hagley...
Works of the Bethlehem Iron Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania detail of the blast furnaces. Four furnace are seen, number 1 to the right which is probably under reconstruction or demolition with numbers 2, 3 and 4 to the left. Number 2 furnace...
Alexander Lyman Holley (1832-1882). Born in Connecticut, Alexamder Holley became a mechanical engineer of remarkable ability. Energetic, persistent, and inventive, he sought convenient means of doing work. He improved many kinds of machinery, but...
Stages of production of titanium metal are illustrated here. Raw material for its is ilmenite (left), a black sand like ore which is also the basic material for titanium dioxide pigments, the whitest white pigment made. First stage of the metal is...
The Heavy Water Components Test Reactor, an experimental pressurized heavy water reactor, designed and built by the DuPont Company for the Atomic Energy Commission at its Savannah River Plant near Aiken, South Carolina became operative March 3,...
