Albums; Industrial design; Cameras; Automobile service stations; Facades; Exhibitions;
This album shows the work of Walter Dorwin Teague for DuPont and other companies, including Kodak (camera), Texaco (gas station), A.B. Dick (facade), Ford Motor Company and National Cash Register (exhibits), at Texas Centennial Exposition.
Text on back: "'Okies' are always on the move – types that go to California to better their life of farm tenancy are all called Okies, whether they are from Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, or Colorado. Some are going, some are returning. Okies can...
The factories of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadlephia, cover five acres of ground, providing twenty-nine acres of floor space. Four thousand men and fourteen hundred women are employed. Two large auditoriums for the use of employees are...
The Stetson Athletic Field adjoins one of the buildings of the John B. Stetson Company's plant in Philadelphia. It was formally opened May 3, 1913, in the presence of six thousand persons. The stands have a seating capacity of thirty-five hundred....
DuPont Company's Rayon Department acetate textile fibers plant in Waynesboro, Virginia. Text from caption: "Amount of pulp used per acetator per day now, in same acetatot as shown in other picture. Waynesboro Works – received from R.V. Hersey."
Advertising card for "The Sexual System and its Derangements" by Dr. E.C. Abbey of Buffalo, New York. Puzzle card with illustration showing a scene in which the reader must find animals hidden in the picture.
Handwritten on back: "The other matched specimen of taxus baceata compacta. My son's height is 6 foot 4 indicating scale of yew". Handwritten by P.S. du Pont on back: "Planted east end rose garden September 1937"
Handwritten on back: "2. Changing position of the saw. Tree just to right of fallen sequoia is an abraged sized white fir tree which offers means of comparing other trees of forest with the Big Trees."
Handwritten on back: "This shows two pedestals of the big dining table #22. The other pedestal is equidistant from the center". Handwritten on envelope: "Furniture offered by Clifford W. Ashley November 1908. Offered for Sale to P.S. du Pont."
Album contains photographs from a trip Alice Belin and Pierre S. du Pont took to Honolulu, Hawaii in January and February 1920. The photographs are of the ocean liner voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii and back, other people on the trip, farms,...
Cartes de visite; Military officers; Portrait photographs
Carte de visite from an album possibly assembled by Henry Algernon du Pont. Handwritten caption: "H. F. Brewerton 5 Arty."
1st Lieutenant Henry Feltus Brewerton served as commander of Battery B, 5th U.S. Artillery after Henry Algernon du Pont...
Cartes de visite; Military officers; Uniforms; Portrait photographs
Carte de visite from an album possibly assembled by Henry Algernon du Pont.
1st Lieutenant Henry Feltus Brewerton served as commander of Battery B, 5th U.S. Artillery after Henry Algernon du Pont was promoted to Chief of Artillery for General...
On sleeve: "Naval figures on every other square, including Samuel Francis Du Pont (1865); Presented to Pierre S. du Pont by H. F. du Pont." Also includes images of prominent army officers.
Typed caption: "Hist. #8 Du Pont Company Hagley Powder Yard at foot of hill below Christ Church, Wilmington, Delaware. At left is the old machine shop. The building opposite with the dark-colored steps was used as the powder foreman's office. ...
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...
Text from image: "[Contract?] 1240 Boiler for Steamer Columbia; April 5, 1913; Lobster - back boiler for steamer columbia; 19'-6" wide; 17'-0" long; 22'-6" high; 4020 sq. ft. Heating surface, 338 - 3 1/2" tubes 11ft. long. This replaced one of...
