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: "The Pennsylvania Station covers the entire area from Seventh to Eighth Avenues and 31st to 33rd Streets. It is connected with New Jersey by twin tunnels under the Hudson River. 60 feet below the surface also connected with Long Island by...
On back: "Electric Locomotive Number 4879, a GG-1, at the headend of a crack passenger train ready to depart Pennsylvania Station, New York. These locomotives powered many of the Pennsy's passenger and freight trains beginning in the '30's, then...
England's Prince Philip stayed at the Hotel Pierre in New York during a visit to the city in March 1966. William Pahlmann decorated the hotel's entire 39th floor for the Prince and his entourage. This rendering depicts the bedroom of Prince...
England's Prince Philip stayed at the Hotel Pierre in New York during a visit to the city in March 1966. William Pahlmann decorated the hotel's entire 39th floor for the Prince and his entourage. This rendering depicts the sitting room of Prince...
Abraham Lincolns birthday anniversary was celebrated in Chicago shortly after midnight by the Windy Citys Pineapple planters, who disposed of their thirteenth bomb of the year at the Northwestern Laundry Companys Plant. The shock of the bomb was...
The Air Force H-12, new multi-purpose, multi-passenger helicopter designed and produced by Bell Aircraft Corporation, flies over the Horseshoe (Canadian) cataract at Niagara Falls. This is one of the rare clear views of the entire brink of the...
Some of the 8,000 paratroopers dropping into the drop zone from air transports. Elevation of planes at about 800 feet to 1000 feet. A point of interest- there were no fatalities during the entire day.
Ethel Strumpf beams approval of sleek new models displayed at Postwar Electric Appliance and Radio Show. Scheduled for the entire month of October at Commonwealth Edison company's main store, Chicago, the exposition is sponsored by the Electric...
General view of the docks at the Gary Works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, largest US steel subsidiary at Gary, Indiana. Shows the hulett un-loaders in operation. The operator sits in a cab just above the grab bucket and controls the...
High quality mass production results from industry's investment in special purpose machines like that shown above, which drills the entire oil system in an automobile crankshaft in one continuous operation.
Leisenring reports that he has sold nearly his entire powder stock to railroad contractors. He reports that these contractors complain about the amount of smoke that the powder creates.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Burns Harbor, Indiana plant. Two aerial photographs of the entire plant showing the air and water polution control facilities with a numbered lable key
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Burns Harbor, Indiana plant. Two aerial photographs of the entire plant showing the air and water polution control facilities with a numbered lable key
Boston Navy Yard War Service awarded to Lieutenant Adolph A. Gathemann, U.S.N.; Text from image: Certificate of Registry, Register No. 27, Merit Roll, Boston Navy Yard, War Service, The name of Lieut. Adolph A. Gathemann, U.S.N. is hearby placed on...
One entire wall in the living room of The Nylon Suite, a new deluxe feature of the Hotel DuPont is covered with draperies made of an F. Schumacher & Company floral pattern screen print. Predominantly grey in tone the drapes are all nylon twill,...
