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...
Text from back of image: "Captain Ernest de Muyter, of Belgium (holding American flag) above, at Adams, Mass., where he landed after flight from Cleveland, Ohio, start of the 1930 Gordon Balloon Race, was adjudged unofficial second place, to War T....
List of all of the preferred stockholders in E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company holding greater than one hundred shares. William du Pont holds 10,000 shares.
Remember playing ring around the rosey when you were just so high? Here is a space age resemblance -technicians wrapping up a 30 foot furlable space antenna at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, in Sunnyvale CA. (Clean room suits are work to...
Mrs. Rose C. Penna, 20, whose husband is entering the Signal Corps, is typical of the women now filling jobs of men who have gone into military service. The long Island Railroad has women cleaning engines as Rose is doing here; operating signal...
Careful check of yarn formation on shipping bobbins holding Lycra spandex fiber is made by supervisor at DuPont's Waynesboro plant. This careful scrutiny of the yarn takes place even before it is okayed to be sent to inspectors who prepare it for...
A cellulose sponge can absorb up to twenty times its weight in water and is compressible to 10% of its original size. The 28 ounce sponge block this operator is holding can absorb 17 1/2 quarts of water in about 90 seconds. DuPont makes cellulose...
The familiar 'Cel-O-Seal' bottle hood is now protecting open ends of airplane fuel and hydraulic lines, engines ports etc. during assembly and shipping. Operator shows how hoods are used to seal the pipes against dust, rust or sabotage efforts to...
The familiar 'Cel-O-Seal' bottle hood is now protecting open ends of airplane fuel and hydraulic lines, engines ports etc. during assembly and shipping. Operator shows how hoods are used to seal the pipes against dust, rust or sabotage efforts to...
The familiar 'Cel-O-Seal' bottle hood is now protecting open ends of airplane fuel and hydraulic lines, engines ports etc. during assembly and shipping. Operator shows how hoods are used to seal the pipes against dust, rust or sabotage efforts to...
An automatic weighing machine at left drops frozen airplane rivets, previously cooled to about 45 below zero Fahrenheit, into cellophane bags, which are then heat sealed by machine at right. They will now go to holding refrigerators, until called...
This young lady is holding 537 eggs-in cellophane shells. Dehydration removed the water. Compression by a new process removed most of the air, so that the nourishment value has been squeezed into a compact package of fourteen one pound blocks, each...
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
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; Electric utilities and appliances; Insurance and financial industry
Collection guide for the records of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company (PP&L). Records document the history of the gas and electric utility industry in eastern Pennsylvania in the years between 1853 and 1955. The collection includes both the...
Text from back of image: "That's just what Dr. Hugo Eckener is doing during the reception for the Graf crew and their passengers at City Hall. Dr. Finley of NY is seen holding the globe, with map of the world on as Dr. Eckener signs. On the right...
