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...
A salmon cannery at Santa Ana, one of Alaska's 94 salmon canneries which put up an annual product valued at approximately eighteen million dollars. The cans of salmon packaged last year if placed end to end would extend a distance of 17,707 miles...
In the center is the director, Mortimer Stewart, who controls each of the three cameras. By a twist of a knob he brings any of the 3 cameras into the circuit. At the left is Izotta Jewel before one camera (camera in this case refers to the unit...
East Pittsburgh, PA-Dexterous womens hands help build modern power mammoths. Here two workers the East Pittsburgh Works of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company are shown winding insulating tape on the current carrying conductors of one...
This Burlington Denver Zephyr locomotive, placed on exhibition today at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Electromotive Division of General Motors at La Grange, is said to be the longest travelled self-propelled land vehicle in the world,...
In the new Greyhound super coach baggage is placed in locked, weather proof compartments underneath the passenger deck. Only wraps and small packages are carried in overhead racks.
Letter addressed to E. I. du Pont. McCall discusses the newspaper advertisement he placed for the company, as approved by Peter Bauduy. After learning of E.I. du Pont's disapproval of the advertisement, McCall agrees to remove it from the...
Gulf States Steel Company, soaking pits and stripper crane. The stripped ingots on the ingot buggies are waiting to be placed in the pits, Note the very high rig on the crane to accommodate the hydraulic cyinders to operate the stripper
Continuous caster teeming ladle being placed on the transfer car which will in turn place the ladle over the tundish below. A second empty ladle is on the second transfer car to the right.
The Barometer of Business review of the state of the iron and steel industry in 1900, primarily the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district. Ladle containg fifty tons of molten steel being placed on a conveying or transfer car at a unidentified plant
A.M. Byers Company, Harmony Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Sponge iron being placed ito the sqeezer to remove some of the slag prior to rolling or finishing
Modern sloping back wall construction. The jib crane is used to set and remove the tapping runner, The runners are to the right of the photo and are placed in position prior to the furnace tap. Note the steel framing in the slope area.
Boston Navy Yard War Service awarded to Lieutenant Adolph A. Gathemann, U.S.N.; Text from image: Certificate of Registry, Register No. 27, Merit Roll, Boston Navy Yard, War Service, The name of Lieut. Adolph A. Gathemann, U.S.N. is hearby placed on...
More than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of Moran Towing and Transportation Company fleet. The hawser is the largest ever...
Orlon acrylic fiber is spun as continuous filament onto bobbins shown here. Bobbins are then placed on racks prior to being washed. After washing, the yarn will continue on it way to the third production stage where it will be wound on shipping...
Chemical ingredients for DuPont's Dycril printing plates are placed in rolling mill in early stages of production at the company's new plant for the light sensitive plates at Parlin, New Jersey.
Final inspection of Dycril printing plates under gold light at DuPont's new plant at Parlin, New Jersey. Operator here inspects plate to insure against surface flaws. When used in printing, the photosensitive plate is placed in contact with a...
Final inspection of Dycril printing plates under gold light at DuPont's new plant at Parlin, New Jersey. Operator here inspects plate to insure against surface flaws. When used in printing, the photosensitive plate is placed in contact with a...
