Hagley Digital Archives

Singer Manufacturing Company Records, 1860-1878
Collection guide
This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
Hagley Collection Guides and Finding Aids

Brandywine Banks, 1868
Employees; Housing; Factories
Leaf no. 9, detached from Beers’ Atlas of the state of Delaware, 1868, containing three maps: Brandywine banks, Newport, and Brandywine Village. Map shows locations of worker's homes, factories, and various businesses located along the...
DuPont Company Collection

Factories of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia
Hat industry;
The factories of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadlephia, cover five acres of ground, providing twenty-nine acres of floor space. Four thousand men and fourteen hundred women are employed. Two large auditoriums for the use of employees are...
Hagley Digital Images

DuPont Magazine [No. 3, 2002]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Computers; History; Paint industry; Automobile industry;
Table of Contents: Natural factories; Very small could be very big; Enzymes on a grand scale; DuPont: the enlightened organization; On the road to better automotive coatings; Changing the way we see things.
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

Health
Aim ray at absenteeism: "Industrial Ultraviolet Ray Solarium", aimed at reducing absenteeism in war plants, is official name for the merry-go-round system of artificial sunlight irradiation (above) introduced by the Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.,...
Nations Business Photograph Collection

Baseballs are carefully made
Chicopee MA-Spring is here and hard on its heels is the season for baseball, Americas favorite sport. Already the factories that manufacture baseballs are busily turning out a supply to meet the demand. These photographs, made at the A.G. Spalding...
Nations Business Photograph Collection

Cost of Manufacturing & Selling Powder Inclusive of Saltpetre, Soda & Sulphur
Gunpowder; Explosives; Ordnance industry
Calculation of the cost to produce gunpowder at DuPont's factories. These include the Brandywine Works, Wapwallopen Mills, and H. A. Weldy & Company.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, General John Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade, to E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1807-12-28
Correspondence; Government contracts; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
Mason describes government trade with Native Americans at western trading posts (factories) and writes that he believes Du Pont gunpowder will satisfy Native American traders at these posts.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, General John Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade, to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1808-06-04
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Government contracts; Ordnance industry;
Mason provides shipping and packing directions for gunpowder to be delivered to U.S. Indian Factories at Chicago, Sandusky, Fort Wayne, and Mackinac. He directs the company to ship the gunpowder to Joseph Lopes Dias, agent for the Indian Trade in...
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, General John Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade, to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1809-07-17
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Mason requests Du Pont gunpowder for the indian factories at Fort Wayne and Sandusky to be sent through Thomas Waterman in Philadelphia.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, General John Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade, to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1809-08-04
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Mason reports that the Du Pont powder has been examined and approved. He sends payment for the gunpowder. Letter also includes freight charges for transporting gunpowder from Wilmington and Philadelphia to Indian factories.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, Thomas Waterman to E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1809-06-05
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Waterman, the Philadelphia agent for the U.S. Office of Indian Trade, acknowledges the receipt of Du Pont gunpowder for the indian factories and requests an additional shipment to New Orleans to be forwarded to Pittsburgh.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, General John Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade, to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1810-02-13
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Mason requests powder for indian factories at Chicago, Fort Wayne, Fort Osage, and Fort Madison. He hopes to send saltpeter to the Du Pont Company.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, General John Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade, to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1810-03-30
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Mason requests additional powder for the indian factories at Fort Wayne, Fort Madison, and Fort Osage be sent to Baltimore care of Edward Jones.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, General John Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade, to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1811-05-11
Mason requests that the Du Pont Company ship powder for indian factories in Sandusky and Chicago to New York, care of Joseph Lopes Dias. See Mason letter on March 3, 1811.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, General John Mason, Superintendent of Indian Trade, to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1812-03-25
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Mason requests powder for indian factories (Chicago, Mackinac, and Sandusky) and indian annuitites (Wyandotes, Chippewas, Puttawatimies). Mason requests that powder be shipped to agent Joseph Lopes DIas in New York.
DuPont Company Collection

Correspondence, Grinnell, Minturn & Co. to Phillips, Shaw & Lowther, 1857-08-06
Ordnance industry; Gunpowder
Letter of introduction for Lammot du Pont to the firm of Phillips, Shaw & Lowther in London. This letter was for Lammot du Pont's 1858 trip to Europe to visit gunpowder factories.
DuPont Company Collection

Resurfacing an old, cracked concrete floor around woodworking machines in an eastern manufacturing plant.
Resurfacing material is made by mixing neoprene latex with a special kind of water setting cement and an aggregate of finely crushed stone. Man with brush is applying a prime coat of neoprene latex to secure a tight bond to the old concrete....
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Use of rayon
The versatility of rayon is better understood after a glance at this conveyor belt carrying coal deep in a West Virginia mine. Cordura high tenacity rayon, developed by DuPont, has found its way into auto, track tires, conveyor belts in coal mines,...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

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