Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Firearms industry; Defense industry;
Table of Contents: Industry and War; Painting for Cheer; Zinc and Lead; Nitric Acid -- Aqua Fortis; Making Paint; The Hopewell Plant; War Time Road Repairs; Farm Labor Now Available; A Full-Sized Farm; Smokeless Powder.
Table of Contents: The World's Vital Problem -- The Question of Ships; A Nation of Shooters; The Amateur Championship Stake of America; From Munitions of War to Munitions of Peace; Will the Gasoline Hold Out; Coal Mine Gases; Reflections on Fourth...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Firearms industry; Defense industry;
Table of Contents: Coal Conservation a National Problem; Road Building Under Difficulties; The Romance of Stone; The Making of Artificial Leather; Conserve the Food Supply by Conserving the Game; King Cotton Enlarges his Domain; Roadway Maintenance...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Firearms industry; Defense industry;
Table of Contents: Building the Ocean Bridges; Limestone for Everyone; Nitrate of Sda -- A Life of Necessity; Why Better Roads Immediately; The Brandywine Mill; Painted Furniture; Care of the Rifle; Destructive Disposition of the Crow; Shoot Life...
Table of Contents: Advertising World Reconstruction; The Part of Paint in Winning the War; Man and his Miseries; Land for Returning Soldiers; Dynamite Overcomes Huge Engineering Difficulties; Carrying Munitions to Perry and Pershing; Refinishing...
Table of Contents: DuPont's Works;Safe Explosives for Coal Mining; The Newburgh Plant; The Evolution of the Book; Shooting at School; Doors of the Past and Present; Paint as a Protector and Beautifier; The Relations of DuPont American Industries to...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Joseph Bancroft and Sons Company, licensing records. Much of the collection covers Ban-Lon and Everglaze, and many of the files are
concerned with foreign activities or events. The collection is divided into 18 series.
Table of Contents: Mobilizing American Business; Hydrochloric Acid -- Muriatic Acid; Double Tracking the Southern Railway; Fractionation of Tar and Tar Oils; The Food Administration; Increasing Oil Yield From Old Wells; The Biological Survey; The...
Written on back of image: "Joseph Bancroft's House - built 1868 on site of house already old when Joe Harvey added a wing in 1797. Occupied by Joseph's elder son, William Poole Bancroft until his death (1928), and to date by John Bancroft, Jr.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Firearms industry; Defense industry;
Table of Contents: Food Production and Conservation; The Disappearance of Wall Paper; Motor Trucks v. L. C/L.; Coal Essential to Peace and War; O.V. the Head of the Family; The Opportunity of the Small Quarry; Dynamite, a Factor in Farm...
Table of Contents: Agriculture and the War; An Idle Army of 500,000,000; Camphor; The Shotgun in Modern Warfare; Apply Industrial Paints; Making Nitroglycerin; Making Black Blasting Powder; Smokeless Rifle Powders.
Table of Contents: More Coal for Steel and Victory; The Patriotic Sport; Cotton -- Its Waste; Coal -- Our Most Powerful Ally; Conserving Old Furniture; The New Semi-Electric and Illuminated Bulletin in Atlantic City; Along An Alaskan Trail;...
Joseph Parry, a commander of a company in the 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry, explains the negative effects that extended service at Fort Delaware is having on soldiers' morale and political inclinations. Parry also states that a visit from...
