The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
Admiral Du Pont discussing with Mr. Wheeten the relief of his command and how unfortunate it was how his name was being tarnished, notes that the biggest upset was not being relieved of his post, but the way in which it was handled
Illustration. Printed caption: "Penn State's official history began in February 1855 when the legislature passed a bill granting a charter to the Farmer's High School of Pennsylvania. On May 6, 1862 the name was changed to the Agricultural College...
The Eastman Kodak Company operated the Robey-French Company, sellers of photographic goods and supplies, in Boston, Massachusetts; the firm also operated developing and photo printing services. In 1927, the firm changed its name to Eastman Kodak...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Nylon; Hosiery; Printing plates; Camping; Racing automobiles; Airplanes; Bathing suits; Textile industry; Fashion industry; Dredges;
Table of Contents: Preserving the culture of the ages; Warm wrapping in a cold wilderness; Reviving a volitile era; New name, new image; Corporate flying carpets; Spandex stays in the swim; Blast off at rock bottom; A new wrap for the old six-pack;...
Table of Contents: Lost horizon: a fashion find; 37 bridges to Key West; Boom at the bottom; California trend-setter; Making a name for itself; The sand of trail ridge; Handwriting on the wall; More than a matter of taste; What's new;
Table of Contents: Balanchine's ballet, backstage; The protection network; Craft netting creations, part II; Reviewing a baghouse decision; What's happened to the workaday wardrobe; Underground Paris: a premium on safety; Shoe design takes a giant...
Table of Contents: The vertical challenge; The user-friendly library; An alternative agent; No refuge for weeds; Medals for powder metals; What's in a name; Smoothing out the ride of luxury; Dressing for survival; Winning the war for water; A brite...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Computer-aided designs; Galleries & museums; Safety; Pillows; Agriculture; Insulating paper industry; Swimming pools; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: Drawings on demand; Artifacts of the future; Selling automotive safety; Another bedtime story; Good news for these ears; Hot new name in cold; Renovation at Riverside Park; Axarel, the safer solution; Taking the plunge with...
Table of Contents: From here to there; Get acquainted with Acele; They use the name DuPont; Ring binders are modern; American legion goes to war to save wild life; Denver's Dynamite Road; St. George goes modern; Mosquitoes routed by dynamite;...
Table of Contents: A challenge that was accepted; Everfast, true to the name; Has color a place in plant maintenance; Commercial refrigeration; A half century of progress; Striking effects in fall knits; Plastics in today's modes of travel; The...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; War work; Defense industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: High-pressure synthesis; Introducing polythene; The American eagle; Mucis by the yard; Please say ah-ah-ah-h; Photolithography and the war; Up from ten to sixty; What's in a name; Freon fights overseas; What's new.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Television industry; Textile industry; Railroad car industry; Plastics industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: What's in a name; They get in your hair; New explosives for oil men; Detective story; The vanishing taboo; Television is changing your life; Something new in rugs; The product nobody wanted; Useful urea; Boon for fabrics; Better...
Letter from J. Gardiner Cassatt, financier and brother of painter Mary Cassatt, to William du Pont inquiring about the name of a good yacht builder in England.
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"
Letter from W. A. Shafer, Secretary of the Delaware Setter and Pointer Club, to William du Pont informing him of the decision by the club's board to name du Pont an honorary member in appreciation for his generous donations and assistance with...
No matter what precarious position or circumstances Uncle Sams fighting men get themselves in to, it will be next to impossible for the men to lose their identities. The army has looked after that and every man is provided with a positive means of...
Aim ray at absenteeism: "Industrial Ultraviolet Ray Solarium", aimed at reducing absenteeism in war plants, is official name for the merry-go-round system of artificial sunlight irradiation (above) introduced by the Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.,...
