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...
A navy F2H-2P Banshee photo plane equipped with a forward firing aerial mapping and reconnaissance camera installed on its nose, lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVA-9). It banks in its approach, levels off, gets a cut from the landing...
Consumer spending for such items as home computers gave the economy a big lift last year and should help propel it to record levels this year and in 1985.
Consumer spending for such items as home computers gave the economy a big lift last year and should help propel it to record levels this year and in 1985.
An experimental train that is packed full of mechanical marvels, new as tomorrow interior decoration and many postwar features for the comfort and safety of passengers, has just been launched by General Motors, its designer, for a six months...
An experimental train that is packed full of mechanical marvels, new as tomorrow interior decoration and many postwar features for the comfort and safety of passengers, has just been launched by General Motors, its designer, for a six months...
Chapin Mine Cornish pumping engine, Iron Mountain, Upper Michigan. Cornish Pumping engine located at surface with additional engines at various levels in the 1659 foot shaft
Chapin Mine Cornish pumping engine, Iron Mountain, Upper Michigan. Cornish Pumping engine located at surface with additional engines at various levels in the 1659 foot shaft
Operator Bob Tittle checks a stainless steel centrifuge machine in the nylon salt building at the Belle Works. Despite its higher cost, stainless steel is used in large quantities in piping and equipment throughout the plant to prevent corrosion to...
Huge valves at Sabine River Works, Orange, Texas, control flow of gases and liquids under pressures that often reach fantastic levels. This DuPont plant makes, among other things, Alathon polyethylene resin, a plastic used in packaging film, dishes...
Caption: "Huge elevators, known as "Cages" carry mine cars loaded with anthracite from the mine depths to the surface and return the empty cars to be reloaded. The "cages" serve five, six or seven levels in the mine--corresponding to floors of a...
Stock exchanges; Stockbrokers; Depressions; Business panics; Business & finance;
Text on back: "Turning back to the days of prosperity – The grain pit on the trading floor of the St. Louis Merchant's Exchange again displayed activity reminiscent of the feverish war-time buying, when the bulls held sway and bid wheat and corn...
