Correspondence regarding Smith's preparations to make sail from Virginia to Wilmington on the US Steamer "Augusta" under Captain Corbin; mentioned are Smith's sister, who is ill and cannot finish a painting for Mrs. DuPont's sister, the Fair at...
Wash day is a colorful event at the dyestuffs Technical Laboratory of the DuPont Company. Here Miss Dorothy Hampton takes in dyed and printed samples of cloth which have been hung out to test the fastness of colors to alternate laundering and...
Written on back: "The Brandywine Rolling Mill (then the Lukens Mill) taken shortly before its demolition. Left to right Samuel Day, __, __, __ Bames, Edwin Dougherty, Joseph Hampton, C.L. Huston, A.F. Huston, H.B. Spackman, Dr. Charles Huston"
Test from back of image: "This remarkable photo shows the U.S. Navy blimp C-7 as it hovered over Hampton Roads, VA watching the twelve U.S. destroyers steam out on their way to the Near East on Monday, October 2nd."
Text from back of image: 'The above photo shows Captain W.R. Gheradi, new aide to Secretary of Navy Wilbur, in the seat of his seaplane, after flying from Hampton Roads to Washington to interview his chief. Tuesday May 6-24. Capt. W.R. Gheradi will...
Text from back of image: "Above is pictured the mass of unrecognizable wreckage of the airplane which fell the other day near Carthay Center, California, killing the pilot, William (Bill) Cole, and his passenger, Hampton Zeigler."
Text from back of photo: "A Naval seaplane from Hampton Roads, Va. carrying Lieuts. G.R. Fairland and R.G. Caughlin, crashed into the James River at Richmond, Va. other day, from a height of 350 feet in the air. The officers were in Richmond to...
Handwritten on back: "Old Monitor Cavoricus (?) - fought in Civil War."
The photo is of the monitor type ironclad U.S.S. Canonicus, commissioned in 1864. The Canonicus saw service on the James River in Virginia and participated in the...
