Collection guide for the Technitrol lawsuit records, a lawsuit (1967-1968) that revolved around the
question of who developed the magnetic storage drum. These records acquired from Seymour Yutter, the lawyer for Technitrol, include trial...
Collection guide for Brandywine Manufacturers' Sunday School Papers, a nonsectarian school offering classes in reading, writing, arithmetic, and Bible lessons, was incorporated in 1817. Papers include student attendance forms, registration books,...
Collection guide for I.B.M. antitrust suit records that include
discovery documents, trial transcripts, plaintiff and defendant exhibits, and depositions.
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Sperry Gyroscope Company records. Company was formed in 1910 by Elmer
Sperry to develop and manufacture his marine
gyrostabilizer, gyrocompass, and high-intensity search light. During the two World Wars, Sperry was one of the...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for the Ferracute Machine Company records. Although the records date between 1872 and 1982, the bulk of the company records date after George Bass became President of the firm in 1937. Most
of these post 1937 papers relate to...
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.
Collection guide for the Life Communicators Association records. The association was organized in 1933 in
order to provide a forum for the industry's public relations
professionals to exchange ideas and information. Records
include executive...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for the Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada records. The company was incorporated in
1901 for the purpose of developing and gold and silver ore
property in Tonopah, Nevada. The collection includes records
of absorbed and subsidiary...
Collection guide for I.B.M. Antitrust Suit records. This collection includes plaintiff and defendant exhibits, computer industry reports and
studies. These are records that Richard DeLamarter
assembled when he was writing his book Big Blue: IBM's...
Collection guide; Business leaders; Electric utilities and appliances
Collection guide for Philip D. Reed papers. Reed was president and chief executive
officer of General Electric Company from 1940-1942 and 1945-
1959. During World War II, Reed was a "dollar-a-year" man
serving in the Office of Production Management...
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...
Collection guide for Raymond Loewy Collection AV materials. The collection housed at the Hagley Library Pictorial Collections Department consists of photographs, slides, and audiotapes. These materials were
separate photo files that were...
Collection guide for William G. Ramsay Family papers. Ramsay was trained as a civil
engineer and became head of the Engineering Department of
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The collection includes
business and family papers.
Collection guide for Engineering Research Associates records. The records are divided into four series. Series I - William Norris Papers. Series II - Papers of Arnold Cohen (head of the Research Division). Series III - Legal Records and Patents....
Collection guide for Margaretta du Pont Coleman papers. The papers describe the life of an upper-middle class woman in Louisville, Kentucky, and Wilmington, Delaware. The papers primarily consist of correspondence between family members.
Collection guide for Ernest Munster Papers. The papers are primarily records Munster maintained during his years as
president of Lawyers International Corporation (from the company's formation in 1930 through the mid-1940s), with some papers
dating...
Collection guide; Electric utilities and appliances; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for RCA/Victor records. This series of
records was assembled primarily by B.L. Aldridge, who functioned part-time as a company historian from the early 1950s to 1959. Prior to that, Aldridge was Manager of Sales and...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for the Christiana Machine Company records. The company, established in 1834, was a
small general purpose machine shop and foundry located in Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Orders and customer correspondence form the...
Collection guide; Business leaders; Business services; Women entrepreneurs and leaders
Collection guide for Helen Baker Cushman business papers. Cushman operated a business history consulting
firm in Westfield, New Jersey, from 1958-1998. This collection consists primarily of client correspondence, research materials, ephemera, and...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Betts and Seal records. The Betts family of Wilmington, Delaware, produced three
generations of innovative founders and machinists. They
played an important role in the founding of three of the city's major manufacturing...
