Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for L & R Organics Products Co., Inc., records. The records of L. & R. Organic Products Co., Inc., are a fragment that had been
preserved in the old building and were discovered by a new owner in 2006. The records consist of files...
Collection guide for historical files on Neoprene. The records consist of a mix of historical and contemporary documents assembled to celebrate the 50th anniversary of neoprene in 1981, enlarged to cover the 70th anniversary in 2001, and kept up...
Letter from L. B. Paxson, superintendent of Motive Power and Rolling Equipment with the Pennsylvania & Reading Railroad to R.C. Blackall, Paxson's counterpart with the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co., introducing the Hinckley Braking device to...
Letter from L. Bush, M.D. stating that John Peoples was unfit for military service. Peoples was a member of Company B (Lammot du Pont's company), 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Stereoscope card showing damage caused by the explosion of Weldy & Company's magazine on 18 August 1878. Handwritten on back: "L & R magazine 125 yards from ours."
Conductors; Musicians; Bands; Singers; Air pilots; Military officers; Seaplanes
Typed caption on back: "23. Having traveled more than a million miles by land and water. Lieut. Com. John Philip Sousa now takes the air. Here he is making a flying trip (either way you figure it) by seaplane to his home on the shores of...
Paint industry; Painting; Chemical industry; Barns; Estates; Correspondence;
Letter from Stacy L. Jones of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. concerning recommendations for repainting the interior of the racing barn at William du Pont, Jr.'s Bellevue estate using DuPont paint products.
Letter from Everitt L. Miller, superintendent of Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, to William du Pont, Jr. regarding the camellia plants Everitt inspected at du Pont, Jr.'s Bellevue estate.
