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...
Handwritten on back: "Hat tree, sharing glass, library stool, pair end tables". Handwritten on envelope: "Furniture offered by Clifford W. Ashley November 1908. Offered for Sale to P.S. du Pont."
This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
Worries about Delaware Breakwater being unprotected from Southern ships, also two ships for sale in Philadelphia, and one could be fitted at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
McCall informs du Pont of a powder sale to the U.S. Indian Department and lists the terms of the sale. McCall also requests information about a shipment of sugar registered with customs.
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance Industry; Government contracts;
Reports on the sale of a property and the San Francisco powder market. Also reports a powder sale to the governor of the Washington Territory for help in the "Indian war."
Written caption: "Crowd of shoppers on May 15, 1940. The day the first nylon stockings went on sale nationwide in the U.S. There had only been local sales in Wilmington, Delaware, prior to that date."
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Health care; Cycling; Agriculture; Peanuts; Zippers; Clocks & watches; Paint industry;
Table of Contents: Images in an instant; Environmental resources for sale; An improvement on the wheel; The classic solution; Putting zip into zippers; Clock without hands; Reliable computers for sea and air; A coat for al seasons; Safe investment...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Plastics industry; Ammunition; Paint industry;
Table of Contents: Safeguarding explosives; Let the camera tell the story; Now DuPont Duco for handy home uses; New vogue in raincoats; Blasting operations in Chile; Buy shells for sale, not for inventory; Soft rock operations in Moffat Tunnel;...
Table of Contents: The explosives business in review; It's always fair weather; The DuPont Semesan family; Making the Cascadilla behave; Fifteen years with Chevrolet; How it's done in Louisiana; The world bound in Fabrikoid; Fashion's latest vogue;...
Table of Contents: From miscellaneous raw materials; Christmas trees a la 1936; Safety on the high seas; Used cars in the limelight; Aridex; Freon refrigerants are safe; A sportsman's paradise; A few remarks for the gentleman from Schenectady; 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...
"Foxcatcher Farm's, The Satrap, Acquired by Virginia Sportsman" newspaper article detailing the sale of Foxcatcher Farms horses at auction in Boyce, Virginia.
Letter from Real Estate agent H. W. Hilleary to William du Pont advertising the sale of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate. Included with the letter is an article related to the historic estate.
Letters exchanged regarding an inquiry into sale of the Empire State Building. Raskob's lawyers scolds Purdy for inquiring less than one month after Raskob's death.
