A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Invoice for clothing issued to Company B (Lammot du Pont's company), 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry while serving at Fort Delaware. The invoice is signed by William Preston, regimental quartermaster of the 5th Delaware.
A square meal in 1943 style. The young lady is about to remove the cellophane wrapper from a double portion of mashed potatoes. In their present form they are dehydrated and compressed. Soaking for a few seconds in water makes them swell to many...
Blue plate dinners a la Lend-Lease. From five tiny cellophane wrapped squares of compressed dehydrated food exactly like those in the foreground-left to right they are Borscht (Russian soup), meat load, mashed potatoes, cranberries and carrots-came...
on front of card: "Evergreen Tourist Court on U.S. 11, 19, and 58, 5 miles east of Bristol, Virginia. All Cottages With Bath, Showers, Innerspring Beds. Cafe Serving Good Food. Shady Lawns. Steam Heat. UMC." on back of card: "Evergreen...
Table of Contents: The approach to prosperity; First aid for forest products; Big shot Molly; Two new sales stimulants; Chemistry's products revealed in the things you buy and use; A preview of the Rio; Seen at smart resorts; Found, a short cut to...
Among the newer packaging ideas being shown by the Film Department of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company is this self service unit of brick ice cream. It is a direct wrap with flavor identity on a continuous band of cellophane which also serves as an...
Nylon has more glamorous assignments but perhaps none more important than serving as this connecting link in our marine commerce. Here nylon shows its superior strength with light weight and toughness to all other fibers used or marine hawsers....
Mirror glass and black lacquered wood are two mediums now being widely used by modern French furniture designers. Pieces offered by Colette Gueden, Paris, show great simplicity in design, the mirror glass being used as a decorative element in the...
Square braided packing, made from DuPont continuous filament rayon tow is serving war industry in water pumps, accumulators of hydraulic presses, punches etc. and is doing a good job. It replaces packing made of imported long line flax. Here some...
Collection guide; Business leaders; Electric utilities and appliances
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
