Artificial rubber industry; Chemical industry; Explosives; Factories; Nylon; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon; Research; Textile industry
Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects: expansion of the Experimental Station in...
Excerpts from The Carney's Pointer newsletter covering the first fifty years of the plant's operations. 25 chapters. Item 2 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
Schedule of shooting dates for the months of November and December 1916 and January 1917 for the Drum Point Gunning Club of Virginia. William du Pont is scheduled frequently as a shooter.
Aerial view of the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant which consists of about 800 buildings in which approximately 6500 people are employed. In the Deepwater Point area are manufactured neoprene, a chloroprene rubber; synthetic camphor; dyestuffs;...
Typed caption: Elegant and very feminine-showing Balmain's glamorizing touch in every graceful line-is this evening gown in snowy white nylon point d'esprit, designed in the flattering princess line so prominent in the Paris couture collections...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows - just as contact was established over Mitchel Field, Long Island where tests were made. Contact with another plane while flying at a speed of 65 miles an hour was made eight times over Mitchel Field, Long...
Cartes de visite; Military officers; Portrait photographs
Carte de visite from an album possibly assembled by Henry Algernon du Pont. Handwritten caption: "John Pelham of Alabama. Killed in battle - war of 1861-65. Class-mate at West Point." A native of Alabama, Pelham left West Point before...
H.A. du Pont on rumor of fighting in Charleston, South Carolina the border states, Lincoln and John Pelham leaving West Point for appointment in Confederate Army
Chemical industry; Defense contracts; Explosives; Factories; Gunpowder; Paint industry; Plastics industry
Excerpt from The Indicator, a newsletter published by the New York and New Jersey sections of the American Chemical Society. Explores the history of DuPont's New Jersey facilities and their contributions to the defense industry. Includes a two-page...
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point Plant, Sparrows Point, Maryland. Aerial Photograph. Sinter plant in foreground with blast furnace L under construction in background.