DuPont Powder Yards – World War I

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A selection of images related to the DuPont Company powder yards during World War I from the Hagley Digital Archives chosen by our staff. This does not include all material we have on this topic. For a more thorough search, start on our Search Hagley Collections page. If you have additional questions please contact us at AskHagley@hagley.org.

    Image: Female worker filling powder into silk bags at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills, circa 1918. Click to view.

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Commissary employees at DuPont construction camp, Penns Grove, New Jersey
"Powder girls" loading ballistite rings on trucks at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
"Powder girls" at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
"Powder girls" of the Ballistite Section at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
Day shift of female workers assembled in one of 10-minute rest periods at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
Night shift female workers at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
Female workers taping and sealing tin containers for rings for 3-inch Stokes Trench Mortar at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
Female worker filling powder into silk bags at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
Female workers transporting sewed ballistite bags to building for loading into tin cans
Female workers pushing truck loaded with silk bags at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
Female workers for DuPont Co. sweeping railroad trestles
Female workers at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills, likely in the Ballistite Section
Female workers carrying loaded silk bags at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills
Two female workers resting, likely at DuPont Co. Brandywine Mills