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...
Table of Contents: New Jersey's ripening tomato industry; New moon over Milwaukee; A tile styled for traffic; The well-mannered look; The first universal house paint; Power-packing pistol; Sailing the vulcoon; Piped light pyrotechnics; Economic...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Packaging; Plastics industry; Architecture; Fashion industry; Bathing suits; Textile industry; Health care; Shoe industry; Pest control;
Table of Contents: Nuts about Selar; Slick system from DuPont; Charting swim trends for '88; Tests at a touch; The runner's edge; They're on the house; A climate for growth; Crop protection with an oriental flavor; An island cleanup; Practical and...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Dairy products; Packaging; Paint industry; Signs (Notices); Agriculture; AIDS (Disease); Medicine; Snowmobiles; Space vehicles;
Table of Contents: A little taste of heaven; Signs of endurance; Sustainable growth: DuPont's 21st century goal; Welcome, pioneer; Good news from the front; Mission possible: earthbound safety; Baby, it's cold outside; Lighter on liftoff; The...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: DuPont Gelatin Blasts Tunnels Under the Mississippi; Dynamite Extinguishes Mine Fire; The Blast Heard 'Round the World; Practical Explosives' Efficiency; DuPont Blasting Gelatin Not Low Freezing; Foresight and Hindsight; Lighting...
Description of trajectory of American business growth and policy changes, particularly regarding the relationship between the United States and Great Britain.
Includes articles: The Hand of Progress (on the growth of the Morse Company); Morse Solicitor Is Globe-Trotter; Theories of Wages; The Closed Or Open Shop - Which (about danger of Trade-Unionism).
Mills Novelty Company-Orval Mullis, famed Lincoln impersonator, a visitor at the office of Ralph Mills, vice-president of Mills Novelty Company, on February 12, picks up a magazine with appropriate title. Mullis was born in Kentucky, lives in...
This picture shows some fabrics tested at a DuPont laboratory. Untreated, an undyed piece of tent fabric (second from left) shows rich growth of mold after 21 days contact with culture. Piece in center, treated, was protected.
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...
A crane size chunk of titanium metal sponge weighing 2,500 pounds reflects growth in DuPont's production of the metal by 1953. World's first small scale commercial production of the metal was announce by DuPont in 1948. Maximum output then was ...
In this image, the lower right along historic Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware the early DuPont powder mills stand in vivid contrast to the company�s Experimental Station, one of the largest centers of research in the world, on the...
This photograph shows a camphor flaker at the camphor plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Deepwater Point NJ. At this plant camphor is manufactured for medical as well as industrial use. This latter is known as technical camphor. Technical...
This picture shows some fabrics tested at a DuPont laboratory. Untreated and undyed piece of tent fabric (second from left) shows rich growth of mold after 21 days contact with culture. Piece in center, treated, was protected.
Collection guide for the Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). It subsumed Bancroft's earlier,...
Text from back: "Swift's 'Premium' Oleomargarine is made from oleo oil pressed from prime beef fat, neutral, June creamery butter and pasteurized milk. It is pure, wholesome and nutritious--containing the elements of growth that all children need."
1301 Western Avenue; Architect: Rellheimer and Wagner; Date built: 1933; On back: The main concourse of the Union Terminal, built at a cost of $41,000,000, is semi-circular in shape, and the right and left hand sides of the dome contain the largest...
