Handbill promoting candidate William Cannon of the Union Party for Governor of Delaware. Cannon won the election and served from 20 January 1863 until 1 March 1865, when he died in office. Many Delaware politicians disliked Cannon because of his...
Collection guide; du Pont Family; Professional organizations
Founded in 1848 by Reverend Samuel Brincklé and members of the du Pont family,
Christ Church Christian Hundred located in Greenville, DE is one of the oldest Episcopal
churches in the Diocese of Delaware. Throughout its one hundred sixty year...
note afixed to print: "The long, low distinctive styling of the Studebaker hard-top convertible that has proved so popular throughout the world is accentuated in the new 1955 models by the sweeping effect of chrome moulding that extends from the...
Trade catalog from the Sparta Ceramic Company for ceramic tiled pools. The catalog features photographs of many examples of private estate swimming pools and public swimming pools throughout the United States.
Brochure for concrete swimming pools from the Portland Cement Association featuring examples of public and private concrete swimming pools throughout the United States.
Letter from LeRoy Harvey, Mayor of Wilmington to William du Pont Sr. appointing du Pont to an "Emergency Committee" to address unemployment in Wilmington as part of President Harding's call to action to fight unemployment throughout the nation.
Ordnance industry; Business & finance; Price regulation;
Agreement between the American Manufacturing and Supply Company and nine powder companies including Repauno Chemical, Hercules Powder, Atlantic Dynamite, Lake Superior Powder, Giant Powder, California Powder, Safety Nitro Powder, Vulcan Powder, and...
Inventory for Bellevue, William du Pont, Jr.'s home estate in Wilmington, Delaware. The inventory includes lists of china and glass in various locations throughout the house.
Inventory for Bellevue, William du Pont, Jr.'s home estate in Wilmington, Delaware. The inventory includes lists of china and glass in various locations throughout the house.
Letter from William du Pont to his father from Paris relating the sights he saw in Roen and throughout the city of Paris. He also discusses some family business relating the the Gerhards, presumably his mother's (Louisa Gerhard du Pont's) family.
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...
Some of the coal brought by railway cars from nearby mines to be fed into the Locust Summit District Central Breaker of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at Locust Summit, PA. This cleans and prepares the Reading anthracite used as...
Honest to goodness, this is really the largest commercial building in America. Merchandise Mart has four million square feet of floor space. Tower section alone is as large as most office buildings. If built up like most of the recent setback...
A gallery of contrasts-striking photos illustrates the wide difference between primitive methods and modern. Women harvesting wheat near Orvieto in Italy one of them using a cycle the other gathering up and binding the sheaves. This method is in...
Schenectady NY- How the M-7 tank killers built here are now spearheading the Allied rout of Rommel was described here today by Major General Russell L. Maxwell, Commander of US armed forces in the Middle East who directed US North African Military...
The Jones and Laughlin mills, one of the largest in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. These and many other big steel mills throughout the United States are working 24 hours a day.
Whether your trip is 100 miles or 3000, the matchless comfort and luxury of the Lockheed Constellation speed the minutes as the four huge engines speed the miles. Interior fittings in the Constellation cabin, styled by the fames industrial designer...
Making final check on the C-54 functional model in plexiglas are left to right: Don Evans, foreman LaMar Bluth, who designed the transparent C-54, Jim Bishop and Robin Swihart. The switches operate lights at all stations throughout the model.
Santa Monica CA- Employees of Douglas Aircraft Companys plant here studies one of many material conservation posters erected throughout the shop. That they are taking the lesson to heart is evidenced by tremendous reductions in the percentage of...
