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...
Collection guide for Irv Koons collection. The Irv Koons archive includes marketing research studies, business correspondence, public relations files, and material from the designer's packaging courses. In addition to this textual component, the...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Railroads; Building materials; Sleeping; Textile industry; Paint industry;
Table of Contents: Blasting into Inner Space; Weeding out rail problems; Tough new skin for building materials; Yellower yellow pages; New aid to anglers; Sound sleep suggestions; Cool power for hot projects; Year of the knit; Frozen foods that...
Table of Contents: Our oldest active customer, Uncle Sam; Use of dynamite in drainage projects; Pyralin's unique use in the movies; Ancient, medieval and modern finishes; Quarrying stone by mining methods; Baby carriages, human and otherwise;...
Letter from William du Pont, Jr. to his second wife Margaret Osborne discussing everyday events at Bellevue and at the farms in Virginia. du Pont mentions classifying the Santa Gertrudis cattle, one of his last special projects in cattle breeding.
Charles Krampf (left) and Walter O. Howe of the Cattaraugus County (N.Y.) Taxpayers Assn. show what they thing of the signs on public projects should say. The Association has drafted a law making it mandatory to have appropriate signs giving credit...
Artificial rubber industry; Chemical industry; Explosives; Factories; Nylon; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon; Research; Textile industry
Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects: expansion of the Experimental Station in...
The Barotor, developed by DuPont research and produced commercially under license by manufacturers of dyeing equipment for rapid dyeing of large yardages of fabric under pressure, is typical of accomplishments of DuPont's $6 million Textile...
After supervisors and engineers had witnessed the quick, efficient digging of a ditch in Johnson County, Iowa, by DuPont experts, they gave the Go Ahead on a long list of special projects in the area. Some idea of the height (150-180 feet) the muck...
Collection guide; Business leaders; Construction and building industry
Collection guide for John McShain papers. McShain was a Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.,-based building contractor. His major projects included the White House renovation (1950-1951), the Pentagon, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library...
Collection guide; Construction and building industry
Collection guide for Lake Mohonk Mountain House records. The records of the Lake Mohonk Mountain House consist of a data file kept by Daniel Smiley as Manager between 1915 and his death in 1930. The bulk of the file consists of tear sheets,...
William Field organized Brandywine Granite Co. in 1899. They furnished stone for the Delaware breakwater at Lewes, Delaware and other construction projects.
