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...
Pencoyd Iron Works, Pencoyd, Pennsylvania. Manufacture of bridge and building structural steel by the open hearth process. Pouring side of 20 ton open hearth furnaces with fore hearth in position. Ingot molds in position waiting for the funace...
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, Indiana Harbor, Indiana. Moving a new blast furnace shell into position by the Eichleay Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Furnace in position to be lowered onto the furnace columns
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, Indiana Harbor, Indiana. Moving a new blast furnace shell into position by the Eichleay Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Furnace in final position resting on the furnace columns with interior lining work...
Bethlehem Steel Company, Maryland Steel Plant, Sparrows Point, Maryland pickling tanks. The rotating hydraulic jib crane transfers the material racks from the loading position to the acid tank to the rinse tand to the unloading position
Hendrick wishes to know if the Boston Automobile Company purchased their boiler and burner from Locke. Further, he wants to know if they are able to provide him a satisfactory burner and encloses a sketch of the bottom of boiler and the position...
Frank Milne has referred Hendrick to Forg. Milne does not feel his burner will fit above the sprocket chain, but thinks Forg's might. Hendrick encloses a sketch of the bottom of the boiler and position of the sprocket chain.
Pencili sketch showing position of gunner in Sperry airplane upper machine gun turret from behind, with the position of the gunner's hands visible through his body.
Letter of Recommendation from George R. Brown to William du Pont, recommending Frank Erickson to the position of sailing master aboard du Pont's yacht, the "Au Revoir."
Ordnance industry; Business enterprises; Meetings;
Meeting Minutes of the Repauno Chemcial Company from March 3, 1886 which includes letterhead noting William du Pont's position as President of the Company.
Freight car runs wild, leaps on auto- One of eleven freight cars that ran wild on a railroad siding near Cincinnati tore through a concrete ramp, which lifted it ten feet into the air and fell on a Plymouth automobile parked near the tracks. The...
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...
This photograph which is the most remarkable marine picture ever made stands alone in a class by itself. It shows a condition at sea never before pictured by the camera. That the crew of the sinking vessel ever escaped at all is as remarkable as...
Formed halves of the bomber nose are cemented together with acrylic resin, the same resin of which the Plexiglas sheets are originally made, Here a workmen is trimming the edges of a bombardiers door end the gun-mount hole so that the necessary...
