A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; 27 Water Street at the foot of State Street; Architect: Henry Hobson Richardson; Date built: 1887; On back: " The Railroad Station, New London, Conn., was built in 1887 and is interesting not only as the...
Table of Contents: Why gamble with style; Film stock severely tested in Antarctica; The modern floor, Linoleum; Quarrying a coal deposit; Wild life restoration; Rock asphalt in Texas; The boon to the cigar industry; DuPont products in Spain; Win a...
Table of Contents: A statement of policy; Laying a thousand miles of pipe line; Shower curtains of rayon materials; Oklahoma's game refuges; Modern tools that save time; Monson slate from the pine tree state; How slate is produced and some of its...
Table of Contents: Chemistry and agricultural progress; Cellophane, the magic cloak of yuletide; PX cloth goes to school; New boudoir accessories by DuPont; Those horizontal drills; Introducing Elasticord; The yarn of better fashions; A service on...
on front of card: "New French Market, New Orleans, LA." on back of card: "Interwoven with history, romance and tradition, the FrenchMarket is one of the most coorful food markets inthe world. A heritage from the days of trade witht he Indians,...
Includes articles: Making Promises Pay (about the Morse Hoboken office); An Interesting Visitor (on repairing a bark Souverian); Harder To Live Than To Die (About American Expeditionary Forces in France); Finishing the Big Job (about former Morse...
Includes articles: The First Industrial Diesel Engine Plant in New York City; Some Recent Motorship Visitors to the Morse Yard And Some Diesel Engineering Department Activities; An Interesting example of Marked Economy by Substitution of Oil Engine...
These camshafts form an interesting pattern as they emerge from the automatic grinders at the Rouge pant of the Ford Motor Company, They are fashioned with jewelers precision, maximum tolerance being one half of one thousandths of an inch. More...
General view of Wilshire Blvd showing interesting points of importance. Lafayette Park is in the foreground, exclusive Town House right center and Bullock's Wilshire Hotel with tower, in left center. The Hollywood Hills are on the right with Santa...
One of the most interesting developments in packaging came recently in the rubber industry. Measured amounts of magnesia and carbon black are now bagged in polythene film and added to the mix without removing the bag. The operation is dust free,...
Heat resistance of the new H film is demonstrated in a laboratory at DuPont's Experimental Station. The film is made form polymers that DuPont scientists have been working on for many years. The company is also investigating their uses as plastics,...
Mirror glass and black lacquered wood are two mediums now being widely used by modern French furniture designers. Pieces offered by Colette Gueden, Paris, show great simplicity in design, the mirror glass being used as a decorative element in the...
Lucie Renaudot of Paris makes interesting use of glass and metal in boudoir furniture for the modern home. Note the mirror glass as a table top and sides for the dressing table. Glass tubing is also used as supports for these two pieces, with...
Research chemists are engaged in a quest that never ends, they are continually searching for new and better products and for ways of improving old ones. Out of laboratories such as the one pictured here come chemical discoveries that make life...
Ammonia storage tanks at DuPonts Memphis, TN plant make interesting pattern of light and shadow. Each tank holds 200,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, which is one of the raw materials from which the plant produces hydrogen and sodium cyanide,...
Ammonia storage tanks at DuPonts Memphis, TN plant make interesting pattern of light and shadow. Each tank holds 200,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, which is one of the raw materials from which the plant produces hydrogen and sodium cyanide,...
Hand crocheted lace at the right? Not for a moment. It's the same as the loosely woven construction at the left. It was made by the Scranton Lace Company on standard equipment to demonstrate the unusual properties of Fiber E, the DuPont Company's...
Three flavors of cheese are in this interesting assortment of prints which are shaped to fit most crackers when sliced. The individual prints are wrapped in DuPont cellophane inside an outer wrapping of the clear film.
Six sided selling and multiple packaging are represented in this interesting DuPont development. The cookies are assembled, wrapped and labeled mechanically. Each packet is individually wrapped with an outer wrap overall for added freshness.
