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...
Mentions rumor of men coming from Maryland to rob the Delaware magazine, 4 nephews and other men went to guard it, and men from Pennsylvania will be camped at Brandywine Springs for protections as well. Also, mentions need for Lincoln to force...
Typed caption: "DuPont's new 15-million pound capacity plant for the manufacture of 'Hypalon' synthetic rubber went into production recently at Beaumont, Texas. Known chemically as chlorosulfonated polyethylene, 'Hypalon' is a special purpose...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: DuPont oval powder; A New Pyralin product; DuPont Fabrikoid went, too; Cellophane, the super wrap; Dollars to matches; Pyroxylin finish helps clean house; And now Pyralin chessmen; Hello, Ed. Maloney; Making the Detroit River...
Table of Contents: DuPont products win honors; Behind the plate glass front; Puncturing a lake from below; Pyralin scores again; At the radio show; Around the world went Duco; From chew sticks to toothbrushes; We must have lump coal; Wanted, seats...
Typed captions: "Can't wait: After waiting for hours to buy nylons after they went on sale post World War II, this young woman couldn't wait to get home to put them on." "Royal welcome home was given nylon as it made its post-war appearance in...
Mrs. Ruth Haig with two bullfrogs that went to market. The only problem that stands between the domestic producer of frogs and enormous profits is the production of frogs in sufficient numbers. Until some of the problems of production have been...
Striking aerial view of Miami, metropolis of the American Riviera. Marvelous development of resort places in southern Florida menaces the French-already thousands of Americans who formerly went to the Mediterranean winter resorts to spend their...
Elmont, Long Island-Rose Moline is pictured in the act of saving a penny by purchasing a package of cigarettes just over the New York City boundary line. Hundreds of New York City storekeepers took advantage of the new city tax on cigarettes which...
According to the note from Mr. Vinson (included after the catalog), this catalog showing the 1955 Ford Thunderbird without the metal spear was a reprint of a version that depicted the car with a metal spear accent. Those with the spear were...
View of one of the DuPont Company's four nylon yarn plants, which is situated on a 600 acre tract in Hamilton County, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The plant went into commercial production in July, 1948 and was virtually doubled in size in 1950. It...
View of one of the DuPont Company's four nylon yarn plants, which is situated on a a600 acre tract in Hamilton County, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The plant went into commercial production in July 1948 and was virtually doubled in size on 1950. It...
The DuPont nylon yarn plant at Martinsville, Virginia is two blocks long, from one to six stories in height and is completely air conditioned. It went into operation in 1941 and its nylon yarn output doubles that of the company's first nylon plant...
Aerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon....
At this plant near Victoria, Texas, the DuPont produces nylon intermediates, polyethylene and ammonia in open type buildings. The plant was built in 1951 and has expended several times. Its initial product was adiponitrile, a nylon intermediates....
DuPont's Textile Fibers Department's Orlon acrylic fiber manufacturing facilities are shown in this aerial view of the May plant located at Camden, South Carolina. In the foreground is the large plant which makes Orlon fiber in staple form and the...
DuPont's Textile Fibers Department's Orlon acrylic fiber manufacturing facilities are shown in this aerial view of the May plant located at Camden, South Carolina. The plant went into commercial operation in May of 1952.
DuPont's Textile Fibers Department's Orlon acrylic fiber manufacturing facilities are shown in this aerial view of the May plant located at Camden , South Carolina. The plant went into commercial operation in May of 1952.
Aerial view of the Orlon acrylic fiber, acetate yarn and Lycra spandex fiber plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Waynesboro, Virginia. The Orlon unit was completed in 1958; Du Pont's acetate plant has been in operation in Waynesboro since...
Aerial view of the Orlon acrylic fiber, acetate yarn and Lycra spandex fiber plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Waynesboro, Virginia. The Orlon unit was completed in 1958; Du Pont's acetate plant has been in operation in Waynesboro since...
