Letter from William du Pont to his secretary, Charles Lennig regarding the purchase of montpelier. Should Lenning manage to secure the purchase, du Pont asks for house plans, window locations, and ceiling height.
Inventory for Bellevue, William du Pont, Jr.'s home estate in Wilmington, Delaware. The inventory includes lists of china and glass in various locations throughout the house.
Inventory for Bellevue, William du Pont, Jr.'s home estate in Wilmington, Delaware. The inventory includes lists of china and glass in various locations throughout the house.
Article from 'Avon and You' in 1967 recollecting the opening of the Newark, Delaware branch 15 years earlier, including photographs of employees who started in Newark in 1952
Rising like a giant stack topped vat this solvent scrubbing tower, located on the site of DuPont's Camden, South Carolina plant for the manufacture of Orlon acrylic fiber, recovers certain chemicals used in the Orlon process. Completed in 1952,...
Medical x-ray film is made in wide mill rolls at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. It is then slit into desired widths under safe light conditions on machine like this. A single mill roll will contain over a mile of film, slit rolls...
Repauno, New Jersey plant (historical) dynamite plant
In 1880, the first charge of nitroglycerine was produced at the Repauno dynamite pant in a building similar in architecture and construction to the one above-as waste acid building. This structure was still in operation until 1954 when the company...
on back of card: "Holiday Inn Hotel Courts. 4941 Summer Ave. - U.S. 70 & 64 East. Memphis Tennessee. AAA. Phone: 34-6687. 3 Other Locations in Memphis: U.S. 61 South - U.S. 51 North - U.S. 51 South. 450 Rooms - 450 Baths - 100%...
One of several bridges across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal at various locations. This one is in the vicinity of an area known later as Summit Bridge, Route 896.
