Typed on back: "Photograph of E. I. du Pont [III], taken at Longwood, while looking at some of the original Du Pont de Nemours manuscripts in the P. S. du Pont collection, and using E. I. du Pont's reading glass."
This guide includes manuscripts acquired by the Hagley Library through the year 1965. The guide was created by John Beverley Riggs, Hagley's former Curator of Manuscripts. It was published in 1970.
Guide to a collection of well over a million pieces, of which Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954) was the last private owner. Collection was originally at Longwood, his estate near Kennett Square, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The guide was created...
This image shows John B. Riggs on left, curator of the Manuscripts Department and William E. Martin of Atlas Storage Company on the right. The Manuscripts collection was sent under lock to the new building.
Guide to records that trace the founding of the company in Paris in 1801 and its evolution into an American partnership during the early
decades of the nineteenth century to its first incorporation in 1899. The guide was created by John Beverley...
Guide for a collection that covers the period 1799-1834 and includes some of the earliest and most valued records of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. It embraces the fall span of the American career of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834), founder...
Guide to a collection with items dated between 1588 and 1926. It represents those portions of the family papers
which descended to Colonel Henry Algernon du Pont (1838-1926) and his son, Mr. Henry Francis du Pont of Winterthur. Between 1949 and...
Manuscripts and Archives Department in the Soda House stacks. Clockwise from top: Chris Baer, Marge McNinch, Lynn Catanese, Cynthia Miller, unidentified, Michael Nash (wearing tie).
In the attic of the Roosevelt Library are these files of Roosevelt's documents and papers. They are part of the National Archives. Waiting to be classified by a staff of ten librarians are 400 tons of manuscripts. There are also 15,000 books,...
This report lists the Civil War related items in the DuPont Company’s records. Although this was done before the records came to Hagley, the mentioned items are found in the Riggs Guide and in finding aids at the Manuscripts and Archives...
Collection guide for Raymond Loewy Collection AV materials. The collection housed at the Hagley Library Pictorial Collections Department consists of photographs, slides, and audiotapes. These materials were
separate photo files that were...
The manuscripts portion of the collection dates from 1784-1989, with the bulk dating from 1940s to 1960s. It includes advertising campaigns, artwork for advertising, deeds, contracts, brewing and distilling processes, and correspondence. There is...
Collection guide; Consumer products; Industrial products and design; Manufacturing and related sectors
As a scientist Carter Litchfield (1932-2007) studied and specialized in edible
fats. During the mid- to late 1950s Litchfield worked in the Edible Research Section of
the Chemical Division of Proctor & Gamble. His work there centered on...
Judy Gould (left) and Ruthanna Hindes (right) sorting and cleaning manuscripts in the stacks at Eleutherian Mills Historical Library (later Hagley Library).
Judy Gould (left) and Ruthanna Hindes (right) sorting and cleaning manuscripts in the stacks at Eleutherian Mills Historical Library (later Hagley Library).
