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...
Lycra spandex fiber, wrapped in cellophane for shipping, is checked by inspectors at DuPont plant in Waynesboro, Virginia where the product is manufactured. This picture was taken as yarn buggies wait to be wheeled to the shipping area where the...
Collection guide for Marshall Johnson Collection of Trade Literature and Ephemera. The collection includes product catalogs, news clippings and advertisements, with a small amount of manuscript material. The date span is primarily from the 1980s to...
Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these. The plant makes adiponitrile from butadiene, a petroleum product. The plant's entire output is shipped to the company's big Sabine River...
Control room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant has scores of dials and gauges on huge panel board. The instruments tell the operator what is going on inside the tanks and toweres elsewhere in the plant. These...
This photograph demonstrates the exceedingly fine particle size of Ludox colloidal silica, a new product of the DuPont Company. This picture was taken with an electron microscope. The magnification is 25,000 diameters. This high magnification was...
Intermediate inspection of the substrate for DuPont's Corfam poromeric shoe upper material is one of the many quality control points in the manufacturing process at Old Hickory, Tennessee. At this stage, the substrate is inspected visually for...
A dye worker at DuPont's Chambers Works is shown placing dye cake in trays for drying, after the cake has been removed from a filter press. After grinding, testing and standardizing, the product is ready for shipping.
The thousands of labels used to identify DuPont products show the diversity of the goods the company makes. For the first century Du Pont was primarily a maker of explosives. The past 50 years have seen the company broaden its base to become the...
Spheres like these for storing synthetic urea represent working capital invested at Belle Works of DuPont Company at Belle WV. Called Horton spheres, after the inventor, they hold finished product until it is ready for shipment. A spherical form is...
The field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are...
