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  • Piano Remains From Fire
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    Typed on back: "Remains of a piano which was totally destroyed by fire on the stage of Longwood Theatre, the morning of Friday, June 15, 1951. The piano, a very fine instrument borrowed from Mr. W.J.P. Calder, was to have been used for the Spring...
  • P.S. du Pont's Longwood, 1840-1954
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  • Piano Remains From Fire
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    Typed on back: "Remains of a piano which was totally destroyed by fire on the stage of Longwood Theatre, the morning of Friday, June 15, 1951. The piano, a very fine instrument borrowed from Mr. W.J.P. Calder, was to have been used for the Spring...
  • P.S. du Pont's Longwood, 1840-1954
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  • Remains of Oyster Roast
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    Handwritten on back: "Remains of oyster roast in front of house where flower garden now is"
  • P.S. du Pont's Longwood, 1840-1954
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  • E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Minute Books, 1899-1940
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    Collection guide
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    A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
  • Hagley Collection Guides and Finding Aids
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  • Telegraph headquarters in the front
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    Civil wars; Military facilities; Soldiers; Military officers; Forts & fortifications; Telegraph
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    Second Battle of Fort Wagner Morris Island, South Carolina Location also known as Battery Wagner. The remains of a Confederate land mine, or "torpedo" are seen in front of the soldiers at right.
  • Civil War Collections
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  • Coleman's spring
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    Springs;
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    Remains of log spring house and remains of log cabin near Coleman's spring. This spring joins with others to form a brook that becomes the Eastern Brandywine River.
  • Zebley-Hoffecker Collection
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  • Correspondence, Alsop and Company to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1862-11-01
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    Valparaiso, Chile; Foreign shipments;
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    ALSOP and CO, Valparaiso, Chile, 1861-1867 (2)
  • DuPont Company Collection
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  • Correspondence, Ashburner and Company to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1853-04-21
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    Calcutta, India; Foreign shipments;
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    ASHBURNER and CO, Calcutta, 1853-1854 (1)
  • DuPont Company Collection
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  • Correspondence, John S. Barstow (Ashburner and Company) to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1854-01-19
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    Calcutta, India; Foreign shipments;
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    ASHBURNER and CO, Calcutta, 1853-1854 (1)
  • DuPont Company Collection
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  • Correspondence, John S. Barstow (Ashburner and Company) to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1854-12-19
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    Calcutta, India; Foreign shipments;
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    ASHBURNER and CO, Calcutta, 1853-1854 (1)
  • DuPont Company Collection
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  • Eagle Furnace, Curtin, Pennsylvania
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    Blast furnaces - 19th Century; Open top furnaces; Stone furnaces; Hand fed furnaces; Water wheels
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    Remains of furnace, note charging door at top of furnace. Cold blast was powered by a water wheel adjacent to the furnace.
  • American Iron and Steel Institute's Keller Collection
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  • Iron Making Historic
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    Iron making, Forges
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    Primitive iron furnace, restored from remains still existing in France
  • American Iron and Steel Institute's Keller Collection
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  • Neoprene paper barrel covers
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    Uses of Synthetic Rubbers
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    These paper barrel covers are used here in an eastern chemical plant to keep materials clean and dry during temporary storage or during transport from point to point within the plant. They are made of no ordinary paper however; barrels are often...
  • DuPont Product Information Photographs
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  • View of cross section
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    Ludox Colloidal Silica
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    This diagram shows a typical surface cross section as it might appear, magnified many thousands of times, under an electron microscope. The surface might be that of a fiber, or of a painted wall, or even wall paper. In Line No. 1, rough soil...
  • DuPont Product Information Photographs
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  • Demonstration of Quilon
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    Quilon
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    Miss K. Grace Fahey, receptionist, under direction of Dr. Edward O. Hermann, research chemist, pours methylene blue dye over paper treated with Quilon stearato chromic chloride to demonstrate water repellency of the compound, developed by the...
  • DuPont Product Information Photographs
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  • DuPont's sodium hydride process for descaling metals
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    DuPont's Sodium Hydride Process for Descaling Metals
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    Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
  • DuPont Product Information Photographs
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  • DuPont's sodium hydride process for descaling metals
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    DuPont's Sodium Hydride Process for Descaling Metals
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    Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
  • DuPont Product Information Photographs
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  • DuPont's sodium hydride process for descaling metals
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    DuPont's Sodium Hydride Process for Descaling Metals
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    Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
  • DuPont Product Information Photographs
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  • Lowering into the water quench
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    DuPont's Sodium Hydride Process for Descaling Metals
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    Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
  • DuPont Product Information Photographs
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  • About 3,000 pounds of stainless steel wire is being lifted out of the sodium hydride bath
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    DuPont's Sodium Hydride Process for Descaling Metals
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    Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
  • DuPont Product Information Photographs

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