In P.S. du Pont's hand on back of image: "Chestnut tree at Longwood taken by government inspector fall 1912. Trees had been sprayed with Bordeaux mixture of orchard[?] strength about every ten days since March 1912. Apparently no chestnut blight...
In P.S. du Pont's hand on back of image: "Chestnut tree at Longwood taken by government inspector fall 1912. Photograph shows use of spray from above. Man in tree has spraying nozzle in hand pointing diagonally downward. The spray mist is seen...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Klots Throwing Company records, a silk manufacturer located in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. It operated from 1894 until 1918. The company employed many of the wives and daughters of the areas' anthracite coal miners. The records...
Includes articles: John Hallock, D.D.M.; Fighting for Uncle Sam (a tribute to former Morse employees died on the battlefront in France, E. Hanson and P. McHugh).
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...
Guide to records that trace the founding of the company in Paris in 1801 and its evolution into an American partnership during the early
decades of the nineteenth century to its first incorporation in 1899. The guide was created by John Beverley...
This accession contains the personal papers of Eugene du Pont, Jr., and the records of the Kinloch Gun Club, a private shooting club which he founded. It also contains a separate collection of correspondence between Alfred I. du Pont, vice...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: Throwing the spotlight on business; What, Pyralin for shoe soles; Reconditioning the Leviathan; When Mr. Jones buys toiletware; Armor plate finish; Of interest to explosives users.
