Image caption from article 'The Birth of a Building' from The Seagram Spotlight: A candid glimpse into a planning huddle between architect Mies van der Rohe, in center, his associate, Philip Johnson and Phyllis Lambert. Mrs. Lambert is coordinating...
Image caption from article 'The Birth of a Building' from The Seagram Spotlight: Architect Mies van der Rohe and Mrs. Phyllis Lambert discuss some of the problems involved in the construction program, as they study a model of The House of Seagram....
Image caption from article 'The Birth of a Building' from The Seagram Spotlight: A model of an interior section is assembled in order to acquire a better perspective of the relationship of elements. All of the models of the Seagram skyscraper are...
Image caption from article 'The Birth of a Building' from The Seagram Spotlight: A member of the architectural and designing staff is shown in the workshop preparing a special model so that the problems of window and spandrel connections can be...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Fishing; Plastics industry; Furniture;
Table of Contents: It pays to be dissastisfied; Chemical birth notices; Refiner's man Friday; Sound by the yard; Catacombs for liquic gas; Hot stuff coming up; Quick bath for diesel wheels; Trend to comfort; What's new; DuPont's new adhesion...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Explosives industry;
Table of Contents: Spinning dreams into yarn; Birth of a fiber; Cinderella's slipper is plastic now; Taming static; Timber is for a gold mine; Alcohol and paper do mix; Lost in the laboratory; The pop that pays; Tri: the double-duty solvent; New...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Textile industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: Silicon's slice of the future; Taming a chemical wildcat; Three new plastics; The birth of a TV special; Dust misses a blind date; Industry's answer man; Pretty beer salesmen; New arrival at Idlewild; Enough for a billion feet; A...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Glassblowing; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Paper industry; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: Revolution in bookbinding; Brakes relined with a bang; Ideas in glass; Paint in his business; Birth of a package; Peroxides war on waste; World's fastest tinplating; They work on tomorrow's problems; Paper is better now; Stop,...
Table of Contents: A new home in Tennessee; Ocean deep, tower high; Speedup in the darkroom; Look who's shopping now; Report on dacron; The farmer's million-dollar coat; Stronger muscles for the air arm; Birth of a toothbrush; Those tireless tires;...
Letter from William's mother, Louisa, to William congratulating him on the birth of his son, William Jr. and complimenting him on the photograph of his young daughter, Marion.
Correspondence regarding Captain Corbin's efforts to reclaim position in the Navy through petitions. Smith announces the birth of his daughter Mary Russell Smith.
Correspondence regarding Smith's receipt of payment from Sophie DuPont for photographic services he performed for her. Smith also describes the birth of his son.
Probably the most dramatic moment in DuPont research history is re-enacted above-the birth of the first completely synthetic fiber, impractical for commercial use but true forerunner of nylon itself. Here chemist Julian Hill shows how he pulled...
Written on back: "Type of Employees houses owned by Lukens Steel Co showing childrens playground in foreground. Most of the employees of American birth live scattered around the town of Coatesville and many of them own their own houses so that it...
Text from back of image: "After successfully crossing the Atlantic and after completing 3,000 miles of his proposed 3,800-mile flight, Lieut. Felix Waitkus, U.S. airman, was forced down by lack of gas and crashed in a field near Ballinrobe, County...
A marker was erected to denote the birthplace of 'Indian Hannah,' (1730-1802) the last of the Unami Group of Chester County Indians, Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Indians. The marker was placed on land of William Webb, Quaker Assemblyman, protector of...
Caption from the article: A full scale model window frame and mullions being studied by Mies van der Rohe and Phyllis Lambert. The floor mirror, to which an assistant is pointing, helps the architect visualize the artistic effect of a repeating...
