Collection guide; du Pont Family; Professional organizations
Founded in 1848 by Reverend Samuel Brincklé and members of the du Pont family,
Christ Church Christian Hundred located in Greenville, DE is one of the oldest Episcopal
churches in the Diocese of Delaware. Throughout its one hundred sixty year...
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...
Inscription on map: "Map of sundry tracts of land purchased by Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours Esquire situate[d] in Christiana Hundred New Castle County in state of Delaware containing two hundred and eighty six acres and twenty five...
Text on back 'Three hundred sailors and a hundred soldiers cheering a flier during maneuvers at Key West, Florida, near which one of the government aviation schools is located.'
Typed caption: "This was not a prismatic press. It is the remains of an upright press and judging from the surroundings I believe it is the upright press in the Brandywine Hundred section of the Eleutherian Works. The upright press used for making...
Copy of painting of the American Eagle, which is the ship that brought members of the du Pont family to America in 1800. Typed caption with image: "COPY - December 21, 1946. From records of the former Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation,...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Dyeing; Plastics industry; Nylon; Firearms;
Table of Contents: Reds that stay red; The laboratory that salt built; Speed will get you nowhere; The things they do with a glass-reinforced plastic; Polka dot paint; I enjoyed your commercials; The metal that slept for a hundred years; The profs...
Table of Contents: Our fugitive farm lands; California's walnut industry; Union Pacific meets a challenge; A new entrant bids for favor; Acele at the seashore; Some almost forgotten history; Modern dry-cleaning; A skeet field complete for one...
From image: "Bellevue Hall, Property of Wm. du Pont, Jr., Situated in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, Scale: 1' = 300', [unreadable name], March 25, 1946"
Hospitals; Charitable organizations; Fund raising;
Invitation from the Mary Washington Hospital to William du Pont Sr. requesting that du Pont be one of one hundred fifty donors of one thousand dollars each to support the construction of a new building for the hospital.
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.
New York City Government to aid slum clearance with hundred million dollars-Orchard Street is not the worst tenement street in the lower East Side slum district. There are about two square miles of tenements like these. Work with Federal funds has...
Lammot du Pont's description of the surveying and construction of the Lower Yard, located on the Brandywine Hundred side of the Brandywine below the Hagley Yard. Included are survey maps of the yard, an estimate of construction costs, and a map of...
Furnaces. Date from Civil War period and were closed down by Union Troops late in the war. Property was later owned by Republic Steel for the ore. Furnaces restored in the 1970's and are now part of the Tannehill Museum complex. One of the...
