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Title: Chambers Works-A Reflection : with Robert A. Shinn
Date(s): 1992
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor)
Description: Interview with Robert A. Shinn about the history of the Chambers Works property. Shinn describes the changes in the area that took place during World War I, when DuPont's workforce expanded. Also discussed are female factory workers, the beginning of the dyeworks, the relationship with General Motors, World War II, the Manhattan Project, company picnics, the Deepwater Plant, the plant hospital, Thomas Carney's ghost, employee benefits, the trolley line,
Collection: DuPont Company films and commercials (Accession 1995.300)
Hagley ID: VID_1995300_B13_ID02

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1968
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3084

Title: Isomer separation unit in dyes and intermediate area at DuPont Chambers Works
Date(s): 1964-07
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3099

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities under construction at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1963-10
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3102

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities under construction at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1963-10
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3101

Title: Early neoprene unit at Chambers Works
Date(s): 1962-05-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2577

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities at Deepwater Point, New Jersey seen from bridge
Date(s): 1962
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3090

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities under construction at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3096

Title: DuPont Chambers Works
Date(s): 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Tricolor, Inc. (photographer)
Description: An aerial view of the DuPont Chambers Works. The plant occupies about 600 acres, employs approximately 6,000 people and produces some 2,500 specific chemical compounds. Among its chief chemical products are dyes and intermediates, textiles and rubber chemicals tetraethyl lead antiknock compound, petroleum chemicals 'Freon' fluorinated hydrocarbons and organic isocyanates.
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3074

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1950-12
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Aero Service Corporation (photographer)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3088

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1950-07-19
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Image used in DuPont 'Better Living' employee magazine
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3092

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1950-01-04
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3095

Title: DuPont Chambers Works facilities at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1948-04-22
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Image used in DuPont 'Better Living' employee magazine
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3083

Title: Tanks used for the storage of raw materials at camphor plant
Date(s): 1941-03-20
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Tanks used for the storage of raw materials at the camphor plant of the DuPont Company. The building in the background is the tetraethyl lead plant.
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3695

Title: Miniature single cylinder paper machine
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The box at the far right contains the coloring agent and the furnish, composed of either wood pulp or rag stock, depending upon the type and quality of paper desired. The subsequent option is comparable to that carried out in a paper mill resulting in the finished paper passing over a heated drum for drying,
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3036

Title: Reflux Units used in ascertaining the resistance of a brown dye to various metals
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: The equipment illustrated is typical of what the visitor will see in most research and application laboratories. Known as reflux units, they are used as testing instruments in ascertaining the resistance of a brown dye to various metals. Each flask contains a piece of metal and a prescribed quantity of dye in solution. After continuous boiling for a 24 hour period, the dye is carefully checked and tested, to determine what effect if any the metal may have had upon its shade, strength, physical composition or any other property essential to a satisfactory dying operation. Thus the user has predetermined information grading the characteristics of a color available to him.
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2999

Title: Camphor flaker at the camphor plant at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: This photograph shows a camphor flaker at the camphor plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Deepwater Point NJ. At this plant camphor is manufactured for medical as well as industrial use. This latter is known as technical camphor. Technical camphor in flaked form is run from this machine directly into containers for shipment. Camphor was for centuries a natural monopoly. Chinese, visiting the Island of Formosa in 1421, found trees from the chips of which the natives distilled a white crystalline material of pleasing door. This material-camphor- was soon in demand throughout the then civilized world, chiefly as a medicine. The Chinese annexed Formosa and built up a monopoly on camphor which they maintained until 1895, when they lost the island to Japan. The growth of plastics manufacture resulted in the development of camphor as an important industrial commodity. This fact was thoroughly appreciated by the Japanese who controlled the world market and with it the price. Chemical research was directed to a method for the synthesis of this vital material. Within recent years, DuPont chemists have devised a successful process by which turpentine from southern pines is converted into camphor suitable for medical as well as industrial use.
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0530

Title: Section of the vat color chemical control laboratory
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: This image shows a section of the vat color chemical control laboratory at the dye works. Vat colors are the fastest coloring agent known to modern science and are used on cotton, viscose process rayon and linen. In general, these colors are the fastest because of their inherent characteristics and the nature of their combination with the fibers colored. In themselves, vat dyes are outstanding in their resistance to such color destroying influences as light laundering, acids and alkalites. They are insoluble in water and therefore cannot 'bleed'. When applied they are rendered soluble by chemical means, and this solution enters the fiber to be colored. The color is then oxidized with an oxidizing agent and the dye brought back to its original insoluble form. Thus, the dye become a permanent part of the fiber.
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3044

Title: Weighing room at DuPont Technical Laboratory
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: Accuracy is extremely important in testing dyestuffs. Delicate balances are used, it being frequently necessary to weigh as little as 1 milligram of color. The DuPont Technical Laboratory is equipped with sensitive scientific balances, handled by trained operators to weigh out quantities of color used in making dyeings of prescribed strength on cotton, wool, rayon, acetate, nylon, silk, paper, leather etc.
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3000

Title: DuPont Company
Date(s): 1937-09-14
Contributor(s): Dallin Aerial Surveys (photographer), Dallin, J. Victor (John Victor), 1897-1991 (former owner)
Collection: J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)
Hagley ID: 70_200_10201

Title: DuPont Company
Date(s): 1937-09-14
Contributor(s): Dallin Aerial Surveys (photographer), Dallin, J. Victor (John Victor), 1897-1991 (former owner)
Collection: J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)
Hagley ID: 70_200_10200

Title: DuPont Company
Date(s): 1937-09-14
Contributor(s): Dallin Aerial Surveys (photographer), Dallin, J. Victor (John Victor), 1897-1991 (former owner)
Collection: J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)
Hagley ID: 70_200_10199

Title: Benzene receivers at the Camphor plant at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1937-08
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Iso borneol, benzene receiver, at the plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Deepwater Point NJ where synthetic camphor is manufactured.
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0526

Title: Camphene receivers at the Camphor plant at Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Date(s): 1937-08
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0525

Title: Loaded dryer rack being run into air dryer at the DuPont Dye Works
Date(s): 1937-07
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3058

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