The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
On back: after his death, at St. Amour. Back: Irénée, Alexis I, William ("Bill") K., Mary Alletta (Later, Laird), Lammot, Margaretta ("Peg"), (Later, Carpenter). Front: Isabella ("Bella") (Later, Sharp), Mrs. Mary Belin du Pont, Pierre Samuel (of...
The papers of Paul Arthur are comprised of material collected by Dr. Arthur’s sister, Dorothy Arthur from 1967 through the 1988. The Collection is divided into two series. The first contains press releases from the DuPont Company and includes...
The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
Letter in forming Charles I. du Pont, Thomas Stirling, George Brattan, Isaac Ford, and Robert Miller of their election as honorary members of the "Brandywine Home Guards." The Brandywine Home Guards were two militia companies that later became...
Tintype of Robert Smalls, who along with sixteen other slaves sailed the Confederate steamer "Planter" out of Charleston Harbor and into the hands of the U.S. Navy's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 13 May 1862. Smalls and his accomplices...
Military officers; Navies; Blockades; Armored vessels
Career Navy officer Percival Drayton served as a junior commander in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and later as Fleet Captain of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under Rear-Admiral David G....
Military officers; Cartes de visite; Artillery (Troops)
Henry Algernon du Pont as a Lieutenant-Colonel of artillery. He was breveted Lieutenant-Colonel for gallantry in action at the Battle of Cedar Creek in Virginia, 19 October 1864. Henry A. du Pont was later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...
Receipt from Ferdinand Arras acknowledging payment for cleaning muskets during September, 1862 for Lammot du Pont's militia company. This company later became Company B, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Receipt from Ferdinand Arras acknowledging payment for cleaning muskets during August, 1862 for Lammot du Pont's militia company. This company later became Company B, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Receipt from Ferdinand Arras acknowledging payment for cleaning muskets during October, 1862 for Lammot du Pont's militia company. This company later became Company B, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Grace Ottey holding Shaw print at her retirement party in the Rare Books Room (later the Copeland Room) at Eleutherian Mills Historical Library (later Hagley Library).
This mill was the first paper mill in Chester County. Built by John Bicking and later run by his son, Samuel Bicking, the mill later changed to a textile mill known as Rockstone Woolen Mill under the operation of the Ellis family.
Printed caption: "The attempt to move the county government from New Castle to Wilmington was bitterly opposed by many. Legislative bills, referenda, and Grand Jury reccomendations were prepared to no avail until, in February 1879, the General...
Written caption: "Mary Alleta Belin du Pont, later Mrs. Wm. Winder Laird, Sr., mother of Wm. Winder Laird, in large hat. Isabella Matthieu du Pont, later Mrs. Hugh Rodney Sharp, on right."
Written on back: "The building in which charcoal was burned and later used as the Pulverizer mill where charcoal and brimstone was ground to the flour stage."
Cartes de visite; Military officers; Uniforms; Portrait photographs
Carte de visite from an album possibly assembled by Henry Algernon du Pont. Handwritten caption: "Genl. Ch. P. Stone, USA." Charles P. Stone was a career army officer who was wrongly accused of causing the Union defeat at the Battle of Ball's...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Toothbrushes; Pest control; Paint industry; Agriculture;
Table of Contents: Taking the heat off industrial workers; Rising chemical stars; Pressure cooking squeezes color into the man-made fibers; New horizons 10,000 feet down; Dacron on duty; Spare that toothbrush; Giving suede a new face; Harnessing...
