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...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Automobiles; Plastics industry; Agriculture;
Table of Contents: The Midas touch of Mylar; there's more to this yarn; THF, super solvent; Big rock salt mountain; Latest approach to automobile safety: packaging the passenger; What is it; Mighty-mite: big punch in a small tool; Two new...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Plastics industry; Ammunition; Paint industry;
Table of Contents: Safeguarding explosives; Let the camera tell the story; Now DuPont Duco for handy home uses; New vogue in raincoats; Blasting operations in Chile; Buy shells for sale, not for inventory; Soft rock operations in Moffat Tunnel;...
On back: "Electric Locomotive Number 4879, a GG-1, at the headend of a crack passenger train ready to depart Pennsylvania Station, New York. These locomotives powered many of the Pennsy's passenger and freight trains beginning in the '30's, then...
Resembling a horde of huge insets, these Bell H-13D helicopters are lined up at the Niagara Fall Municipal Airport prior to beginning the long journey to Korea where they are urgently needed by the Army Field Forces. Helicopters of this and other...
Beginning their shift, bituminous coal miners board steel-topped mantrip cars which take them to the working face where coal is mined. The scene is at the Ireland Mine of Consolidation Coal Company, near Moundsville WV.
Kemble reports that he believes the order for 100,000 pounds of powder will go to him at the beginning of the next year. He discusses the sale of Cornell's magazine.
This is the point where the film base receives its coating of light sensitive emulsion. The transparent base dips into a tray which is filled with emulsion and comes away with just the right thickness of emulsion coated on it. The point at which...
Square meals for 100 people-soldiers or civilian consumers in Lend-Lease countries, can be made from these five cellophane wrapped bricks of compressed food. They are beef and onions (to make hamburgers, for example) carrots, potatoes and...
Neoprene sheet becomes a rope prior to cutting and packing. Here, a DuPont foreman checks texture of the material at the 50 million pound neoprene plant near Montague, Michigan. The only general purpose synthetic rubber in commercial manufacture in...
The thousands of labels used to identify DuPont products show the diversity of the goods the company makes. For the first century Du Pont was primarily a maker of explosives. The past 50 years have seen the company broaden its base to become the...
This is a knock testing engine being used by DuPont for fundamental combustion research. Since its beginning in 1927, DuPont's fundamental research program has proved helpful in laying the foundation for applied research along many lines. In this...
Since beginning in 1927, DuPont's program of fundamental research has proved helpful in laying the foundation for applied research along many new lines. The chemist in this picture at the company's Experimental Station is watching an organic...
Shown here are several stages in the production of rayon packing, beginning at the upper right hand corner with a tube of DuPont rayon tow. The man's hands are holding several loops of the two, which consists of thousands of continuous filaments of...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for L & R Organics Products Co., Inc., records. The records of L. & R. Organic Products Co., Inc., are a fragment that had been
preserved in the old building and were discovered by a new owner in 2006. The records consist of files...
Collection guide for Lippincott & Marguiles, Inc. records. The records of Lippincott & Margulies, Inc., and Lippincott Mercer consist of a set of the company’s magazine, Design Sense. Although missing four numbers, it is the most complete set...
"Profusely illustrated. Attractively designed and illustrated catalogue promoting a line of American-manufacturer player pianos, with numerous photos showing the internal workings. This catalogue was specially re-issued by a Barcelona firm for the...
On back: "Electric Locomotive Number 4879, a GG-1, at the headend of a crack passenger train ready to depart Pennsylvania Station, New York. These locomotives powered many of the Pennsy's passenger and freight trains beginning in the '30's, then...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Major General Mason M. Patrick, commanding the United States Army Air service who arrived at Mitchel Field today for the aerial and artillery maneuvers which are to be held there for the next ten days beginning...
