Collection guide; Business leaders; Construction and building industry
Collection guide for John McShain papers. McShain was a Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.,-based building contractor. His major projects included the White House renovation (1950-1951), the Pentagon, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library...
Annual report for the year ended December 31, 1955, and ten-year review. Includes digest of operations, financial summary, accountants' reports,directory of employees etc.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Firearms industry; Defense industry;
Table of Contents: Preparedness Through Advertising; Spring Time is Paint Time; Mountain Road Building; Iron the Civilizer; Evolution of the Mirror; Solvents for Nitrocellulose; The Day of the Leather Substitute; The War to Win the War; Federal...
Collection guide; Insurance and financial industry
Collection guide for the Provident Mutual Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia records. The records include administrative
correspondence, general agents' files, personnel records, and
advertising and sales materials.
Includes articles: An Industrial City And Its Commerce (about the Receiving Department of the Morse); A Bit O' Politics (about a candidate for the governorship of the New York State Judge Nathan L. Miller); Some of Our Old Timers; Sports.
