Typed caption: "Upper Hagley works on the Brandywine were built in 1812. It was at this mill where Alexis I. du Pont, third son of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, was injured on Saturday afternoon, August 22, 1857 which resulted in his death the...
De Forest Willard, a Philadelphia physician, writes on behalf of a Mrs. Hughes who was injured in the 1854 explosion of three DuPont Company powder wagons in Wilmington, Delaware. Willard requests that the DuPont Company give Mrs. Hughes...
Willard writes a follow-up letter to the DuPont Company regarding remuneration for a Mrs. Hughes, who was injured in the 1854 explosion of three of the Company's powder wagons in Wilmington, Delaware.
Display of the many different safety signs used at a single DuPont plant is a striking symbol of the companys prime concern for the safety of its employees. Signs are but one phase of a comprehensive company-wide program in which employees are...
Text from back of image: "The International Balloon race which started from Belgium a fortngiht ago was the most disastrous in history. Five aeronauts, including two American, were kiled, and another seriously injured. Two foreign and one...
Text from back of image: "Boatswain Dietrich of the U.S. Navy was killed today, 3-3-24, and two mechanics injured when a Douglas torpedo plane in which they were flying got out of control and plunged against the seawall of the Potomac. Photo shows...
Text from back of image: "Five persons were injured when a passenger plane flying low, at Poughkeepsie, June 12th, dived into the Hudson River. Two were in dangerous condition. Men of the naval training crew who rescued them, are shown at the plane...
Text from back of image: "The machine in which flight-Lieut. Ulm and three companions were to take off from Portmarnock Strand, Ireland, on a flight across the Atlantic, collapsed while being refuelled. After the refuelling operations, an effort...
Text from back of image: "Five persons were killed and five seriously injured when this Pan-American Grace airliner San Pedro, plunged into the shallow waters of Lake Mar Chiquita, in the Argentine republic recently. By a strange coincidence the...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows - giant Martin bombing plane after it had crashed to earth in Brooklyn, New York, burying six members of the army air service. Two officers, Major Folett Bradley and First Lieutenant Stanley Smith, were perhaps...
Text from back of image: "Machine of F. J. Courtney, winner of the London Aerial Derby was slightly injured when his machine upset while he was making a landing at Hendon. The plane is shown in the picture taken immediately after the accident was...
Text from back of image: "Though it was a day of hair-raising risk of life, no person was injured at the spectacular aerial circus staged over the flying field at Lakehurst, N.J. on Saturday May 31st. There was one accident. A DeHaviland plane,...
Text from back of image: "Miles from an airport and with his failing motor covered with escaping oil Lt. Robert H. Terrill, Army test pilot, saved his life with a spectacular forced landing in a beet field this afternoon at 107th Street and Central...
Typed caption: "Home of Alexis I. du Pont, youngest son of E.I. du Pont de Nemours. Alexis I. du Pont was injured by an explosion in the Upper Hagley Works on Saturday afternoon Aug 22, 1857 and died the following morning, Sunday, Aug 23, 1857....
Typed caption: "Upper Hagley works on the Brandywine were built in 1812. It was at this mill where Alexis I. du Pont, third son of E.I. du Pont de Nemours, was injured on Saturday afternoon, August 22, 1857 which resulted in his death the following...
David B. Tyler, The Bay and River: Delaware, A Pictorial History: "The 671 ton Samuel M. Felton was built of iron by Reany, Son & Archbold of Chester in 1866, for the P.W. & B. Railroad. She ran from Philadelphia to Wilmington and the Cape May. ...
