Special 25th Anniversary edition of the Cellophane News plant newspaper documenting the history of the DuPont Spruance Film Plant in Richmond, Virginia. Vol. 5, No. 20. Tuesday, November 1, 1955. Item 17 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
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; 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...
This guide includes manuscripts acquired by the Hagley Library through the year 1965. The guide was created by John Beverley Riggs, Hagley's former Curator of Manuscripts. It was published in 1970.
Guide to a collection of well over a million pieces, of which Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954) was the last private owner. Collection was originally at Longwood, his estate near Kennett Square, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The guide was created...
Guide to a collection with items dated between 1588 and 1926. It represents those portions of the family papers
which descended to Colonel Henry Algernon du Pont (1838-1926) and his son, Mr. Henry Francis du Pont of Winterthur. Between 1949 and...
Ernest Dichter (1907-1991) was a Vienna-trained psychologist who came to New York in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He became a pioneer in the development of motivational research, a marketing tool that used psychological techniques to probe consumers'...
Collection guide for John J. Raskob Papers documenting the life and accomplishments of one of the most prominent figures in pre-New Deal business and politics. Raskob had a lifelong business and personal association with Pierre S. du Pont, and...
Collection guide for the William du Pont Family Papers. The William du Pont family papers, 450 linear feet, consist of correspondence, financial records and printed materials, which document the personal and business activities of the father and...