Text from back of image: "Lady Mary Heath, noted British flyer, is near death as result of a plane crash in which she was flying went through a factory roof near the Great Lakes Aircraft Corp. Field at Cleveland. Photo shows the remains of the...
Printed caption: "On Bedford Street in Georgetown, just off the public square, is an old, shingled house. Once it was one of the most important buildings in Sussex County, for it was built as the County Court House in 1791 and used as such for...
Correspondence; Dwellings; Real estate business; Correspondence;
Letter from Montpelier owner, Louis F. Detrick to his realtors, Alex Yearley & Son declaring his resolve not to lower his price on the estate without hearing a reasonable counter-offer and further defending his asking price by noting the recent...
Letter from Henry du Pont to Lammot du Pont regarding a military officer who wanted to speak with Lammot about the prospect of detonating a ship loaded with gunpowder near a fort on the southern coast.
Painting by Xanthus Russell Smith depicting the capture of the Confederate ironclad "C.S.S. Atlanta" on 17 June 1863. The U.S. Navy monitor "U.S.S. Weehawken," assisted by the monitor "U.S.S. Nahant," captured the "Atlanta" after a brief...
Freight car runs wild, leaps on auto- One of eleven freight cars that ran wild on a railroad siding near Cincinnati tore through a concrete ramp, which lifted it ten feet into the air and fell on a Plymouth automobile parked near the tracks. The...
Text from image: "An enemy ear may be near -- Stop all loose talk to STRANGERS! This poster is published by the House of Seagram as part of its contribution to the National Victory Effort"
Correspondence; Government contracts; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
Mason encloses a newspaper notice of the sale of the Franklin Powder Mills near Washington, D.C. and counsels E. I. du Pont on the decision to purchase the site and open a manufactory near Washington City.
View of one of the DuPont Company's four nylon yarn plants, which is situated on a 600 acre tract in Hamilton County, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The plant went into commercial production in July, 1948 and was virtually doubled in size in 1950. It...
View of one of the DuPont Company's four nylon yarn plants, which is situated on a a600 acre tract in Hamilton County, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The plant went into commercial production in July 1948 and was virtually doubled in size on 1950. It...
Control board at DuPont's plastics plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. This automatic device allows the operator to keep close control over complicated manufacturing processes and thus make better plastics more efficiently. The plant makes...
On these barges, floating on the lake, near Starke, Florida, ilmenite ore is scrubbed and separated, with the sand being returned to the lake to restore the land level.
In this image, the lower right along historic Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware the early DuPont powder mills stand in vivid contrast to the company�s Experimental Station, one of the largest centers of research in the world, on the...
postcards; parking lots; automobiles; national parks & reserves; mountains;
on front of card: "W-4 - Newfound Gap Parking Area, Great Smoky Mountains National Park." on back of card: "Newfound Gap, elevation 5045 feet, is where the road of the same name crosses the main chain of the Great Smokies. There is ample room for...
Written on back: "7 Anna Roobyan CIV. 10 Takohee Kushbuloodyan XCVII." Detail: "TAKOHEE KUSHBOOLOODIAN is a little girl who was nine years old in 1922. She has lost her parents in the recent troubles, but was rescued by Miss Salmond and taken...
