Letter from Real Estate agent H. W. Hilleary to William du Pont advertising the sale of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate. Included with the letter is an article related to the historic estate.
Collection guide for the Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). It subsumed Bancroft's earlier,...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Rubber; Plastics industry; Nylon; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: I remember rubber; Lighting up with lucite; Coming, better protein from cereal foods; These paper profits are real; Business's economic forecasters; Precision machining of teflon; fit for a sporting life, mycoban chases cheese...
Table of Contents: Business outlook; We amputate a stack; Campal, a real pal; Duco-finished car wins at Indianapolis; Battling the bandits with Pyralin; Proper use of permissibles; Opening a new mine in Illinois; Railroad work at Central City,...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Automobile industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Are we still in the old business cycle, or in a new one; Armor-plating cedar chests; Adding safety to yellow cabs; Does the work of fifteen men; Real man-sized radio; Turning a mountain into a memorial; Scupturing with DuPont...
Table of Contents: Fast colors and the depression; A real guide to universal knowledge; More speed in road building; Another DuPont product makes good; Smart surf suits for the sea; A tale about Mark Twain; A new hotel continues old traditions;...
Includes articles: Friendly Competition Indicates Real Progress, by Edward P. Morse; Germany Makes Progress in Shipping; An Example of Morse Workmanship (on finishing S.S. Munamar); Explains Norway's Shipping Program; Our Viewpoint from the...
Includes articles: Another Problem for Us To Solve (on repairing S.S. America and motorships Titania and Tiradentes); A Rational Method of Comparing Motorship and Steamship Costs; Smoke: It's Real Relation to Efficient Combustion; A Morse Sky...
Schoolboys of San Francisco lined up for inspection in front of their tents at the training camp at Manzanita, CA. This camp was formed exclusively for the school children of San Francisco and the bay cities. The purpose of this camp is to teach...
These are the bigwigs, an evening conference along a pasture fence. From left to right: Mr. Barmhart farm superintendent. Chas Reed, Rutgers agriculture engineer. Harry Besley, Rutgers agriculture engineer. Mr. Mozur. Carl Benley, Rutgers grass...
Text from image: "I need your skill in a War Job! If you know one of these trades and are not in real war work, you are badly needed: Airplane Skin Man; Airplane Subassembler; Ammunition Inspector; Assembler, Ship; Bench Hand, Metal Work; Bus...
Collection guide for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company records. The records are arranged into 3 series: Series A contains correspondence (1802-1891, bulk 1802-1815) with over 500 individuals and firms,
including customers, suppliers, sales agents...
Collection guide for Expo 67 miscellany. The materials collected by Elizabeth Marion DeBlois include a variety of publications and ephemera associated with Expo 67.
The collection includes many of the official guides and maps issued by the fair,...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Barton H. Jenks papers. The papers include an annotated copy of the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company’s 1867 trade catalogue, and a series of patent papers relating to Barton H. Jenks’ inventions. These include textile...
Collection guide for Strawbridge & Clothier. The collection is comprised of 46 linear feet of records dating from 1793-1993. This archive is organized into eight series: Series I, Corporate Records; Series II, Management Records; Series III,...
Collection guide; Electric utilities and appliances; Insurance and financial industry
Collection guide for the records of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company (PP&L). Records document the history of the gas and electric utility industry in eastern Pennsylvania in the years between 1853 and 1955. The collection includes both the...
Collection guide for the William du Pont Family Papers. The William du Pont family papers, 450 linear feet, consist of correspondence, financial records and printed materials, which document the personal and business activities of the father and...
Contents: The Real Molly Maguires; Conditions in the Antrhacite Fields; Early Organizations of the Anthracite Miners; The Long Strike of 1875; The Life and Death Struggle in Pennsylvania; The Trials; Peace Once More Reigns; Conclusions.