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- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Minute Books, 1899-1940
- Collection guide
- 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...
- Hagley Collection Guides and Finding Aids
- Gunpowder Labels
- Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Advertisements; Packaging; Labels
- Gunpowder labels, advertisements, and advertising cards for various gunpowder companies in the United States and Great Britain. Companies and brands include: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company; Hazard Powder Company; Wapwallopen Mills; H.A....
- DuPont Company Collection
- Adjustment Agreement, 1886-06-10
- Ordnance industry; Business & finance; Price regulation;
- Agreement between the American Manufacturing and Supply Company and nine powder companies including Repauno Chemical, Hercules Powder, Atlantic Dynamite, Lake Superior Powder, Giant Powder, California Powder, Safety Nitro Powder, Vulcan Powder, and...
- William du Pont Collection
- E. I. du Pont Drawings of Powder Mills and Machinery, No. 002, Powder Yard Gates, n.d.
- Drawing; Gunpowder; Factories
- Drawing of powder yard gates.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Volume 3, American Labels
- Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Advertisements; Packaging; Labels
- Scrapbook of gunpowder labels and advertisements from the DuPont Company's American competitors and companies DuPont acquired. Companies include: Rogers' Orange Gunpowder of New York; Eden Park Mills; Whipple Powder; King's Mill Gunpowder; Hazard...
- DuPont Company Collection
- Correspondence, John Hancock to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1809-09-04
- Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
- Hancock encloses a summary of powder sales by customer and requests additional powder. He reports that du Pont powder was the only U.S. powder not to be condemned under recent Massachusetts powder laws.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Correspondence, John Boyd to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1804-10-15
- Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Correspondence;
- Letter addressed to Peter Bauduy. Boyd reports that musket powder is in highest demand in his market.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Specifications for Lammot du Pont's Blasting Powder Patent
- Gunpowder; Explosives; Ordnance industry; Patents
- Lammot du Pont's specifications for blasting powder made from sodium nitrate rather than potassium nitrate. This powder was called soda powder or soda blasting powder. Also included is a letter from George Harding suggesting changes to the...
- DuPont Company Collection
- Correspondence, Archibald McCall to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1807-09-02
- Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
- McCall reports recent powder sales and status of his account with the company. He reports that one of his customers has seen powder sold in Charleston as du Pont powder which is inferior to company powder sold by McCall.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Correspondence, Gibbons and Lammot to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1855-06-29
- Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance Industry;
- Reports on the San Francisco powder market and powder sales. Gibbons and Lammot request that DuPont package powder for the San Francisco Market as California Rifle to appeal to hunters. Gibbons and Lammot presented city celebration committee with...
- DuPont Company Collection
- Correspondence, Rodmond Gibbons to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1858-11-04
- Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance Industry;
- Reports on the San Francisco powder market and sales. Discusses competition from Whipple Powder and Hazard Powder Company agents.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Correspondence, Rodmond Gibbons to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1859-04-19
- Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance Industry;
- Gibbons reports on the San Francisco powder market and sales. In particular he outlines an agreement he has made with the agent for the Hazard Powder Company to set prices for blasting powder. Includes an account of sales for April and an account...
- DuPont Company Collection
- Certificate of Incorporation, U.S.F. Powder Company, 1919
- Ordnance industry; Business enterprises;
- First page of a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation for the U.S.F. Powder Comapany, dated 1919.
- William du Pont Collection
- Correspondence, John Bogue to DuPont Company, 1861-04-18
- Correspondence;
- Bogue called to Mayor's office in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and questioned amount of powder at the magazine and on selling powder to the South, mentions he does sell to stores in Virginia, needs advice of DuPont to stop selling. Mayor mentions...
- Civil War Collections
- Correspondence, John Hancock to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1808-08-27
- Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
- Hancock reports that he needs more powder to supply his customers. He also reports that du Pont powder is considered superior powder in his market.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Correspondence, John Gundacker to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1806-09-15
- Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
- Gundacker has a received a powder sample and does not think the powder type will suit his market. He reports on powder sales.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Correspondence, Snydam & Wychoff to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1806-10-20
- Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry;
- Snydam & Wycoff discuss proposed powder prices for their market and relationship to Mr. Girard. They suggest that the company fix on a single brand for their powder and mimic English powder markings.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Powder Wagon Leaving DuPont (Hagley) Powder Yard
- Dwellings; Horses; Ordnance industry; Carts & wagons; Row houses
- Written on back: "Powder wagon just leaving the powder mills on the Brandywine; Long Row (worker housing) on far left; New machine shop in distance"
- DuPont Company Collection
- Santa Cruz Gunpowder Brochure
- Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Advertisements
- Brochure describing the various types of gunpowder and fuse produced by the California Powder Works of Santa Cruz, California.
- DuPont Company Collection
- Memorandum of Cost of Transportation of Powder at Hagley Yard, 1872
- Gunpowder; Ordnance industry
- Lammot du Pont's tabulation of the energy expended in producing soda powder at Hagley Yard. His calculations are based on the distances that raw materials and powder in various stages of completion moved throughout the yard.
- DuPont Company Collection