Reports on San Francisco powder market and sales. Gibbons also reports on the condition of recently received powder and discusses packaging and shipping practices.
Kemble inquires about shipping practices and discusses how he can assist the DuPont Company with discounting notes. He reports that the order for 100,000 pounds of powder (See Kemble letter of April 3, 1819) was destined for Cristophe (possibly...
Correspondence in which Xanthus Smith discusses his and his sister's painting practices and studies. He also discusses a visit to Louviers and other personal matters.
Table of Contents: Reawakening Initiative; Are you a Hen or a Chameleon; Pontar and Better Roads; Sporting Arm; Charm of Color; An All-American Art; Ivory -- Yesterday and Today; Detonators for Blasting; Unprofitable Paint Trade Practices;...
Table of Contents: Prosperity drive; Feldspar for ceramics; Fertilizer ammoniation; Taming the Saguenay River; Foul water and waterfowl; Cellulose acetate, a DuPont product; A memorial for the ages; Refinished and in service; No more needless...
Table of Contents: Know the trends of style in merchandise; Luggage fashions change; New rayon plant in Virginia; More about quarry practices; Problem, what to give; The sales horizon widens when Cellophane used; Hudson River bridge; Rifles and...
Table of Contents: Chemistry rescues wealth from industrial wastes. DuPont keeps step with progress in aviation; Creating a new vogue in boudoir accessories; Duco sits with the moderns; Quarrying practices; Prize winners all; Mining gold in...
Display of the many different safety signs used at a single DuPont plant is a striking symbol of the companys prime concern for the safety of its employees. Signs are but one phase of a comprehensive company-wide program in which employees are...
Cartes de visite; Physicians; Military officers; Portrait photographs
Carte de visite from an album possibly assembled by Henry Algernon du Pont. Handwritten caption: "Dr. Hammond, U.S. Army" Hammond served at Surgeon General of the U.S. Army in 1862-63. He tried to implement numerous reforms of military medical...