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...
Hendrick encloses a check for 4 dollars for a one year subscription to Automobile Topics. He would like to have it sent to him in California until further notice.
Correspondence; Dwellings; Real estate business; Correspondence;
Letter from Montpelier owner, Louis F. Detrick to his realtors, Alex Yearley & Son declaring his resolve not to lower his price on the estate without hearing a reasonable counter-offer and further defending his asking price by noting the recent...
Letter from William du Pont to his father about his further travels in England to Lichfield and Leannington where he vistied the Rugby School and the grave of Thomas Arnold.
The Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) and plastic...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these. The plant makes adiponitrile from butadiene, a petroleum product. The plant's entire output is shipped to the company's big Sabine River...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
Sheet of photopolymer for DuPont's Dycril printing plates is released from rolling mill at the first full scale plant for the plates at Parlin, New Jersey. After further processing, the sheet becomes the light sensitive layer for letterpress...
Chemicals are added to the woodpulp for cellophane in barattes and the material is mixed further here. Shredder has already reduced woodpulp to fine particles for this process.
Aerial view of the DuPont Company's Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant. This plant started production in 1941, was substantially enlarged in 1947 and today is being still further expanded.
Aerial view of the DuPont Company's Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant. This plant started production in 1941, was substantially enlarged in 1947 and today is being still further expanded.
Compression of dehydrated food to save cargo space has been proposed for Lend-Lease and Army shipments. At left are nine pounds of raw potatoes. At lower right, in exhibit container, is equivalent amount after shredding and dehydrating have reduced...
