Digital Collections

The David Sarnoff Library collections (Accession 2464) include the research records, the papers of individual scientists, photographs, films and sound recordings that document the research and development conducted at the David Sarnoff Research Center and other RCA facilities from the early days of the Radio Corporation of America to the David Sarnoff Research Center’s operations in the 1980s and 1990s. It also includes the original David Sarnoff papers (Accession 2464.55) collection, assembled by Sarnoff and his staff to document his career. These formed the core of the David Sarnoff Library when it opened at the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton in 1967. When the library closed in 2009, the archival collections were donated to Hagley and the museum objects went to The College of New Jersey. This digital collection offers a small sample material selected from the David Sarnoff Library collections at Hagley, which encompasses twenty collections and nearly 3,000 linear feet of material.

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The materials in this digital collection are part of the David Sarnoff Library digital archive (Accession AVD.2464.001), which is itself part of the David Sarnoff Library collections (Accession 2464). These collections formed the core of the David Sarnoff Library when it opened at the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton in 1967. These collections were the holdings of the David Sarnoff Library, founded in 1967 as part of the David Sarnoff Research Center. When the library closed in 2009, its archival collections were donated to Hagley Library. That donation included born-digital and digitized material. The materials in this collection were part of that transfer.

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The David Sarnoff Library collections (Accession 2464) include the research records, the papers of individual scientists, photographs, films and sound recordings that document the research and development conducted at the David Sarnoff Research Center and other RCA facilities from the early days of the Radio Corporation of America to the David Sarnoff Research Center’s operations in the 1980s and 1990s. It also includes the original David Sarnoff papers (Accession 2464.55) collection, assembled by Sarnoff and his staff to document his career. These formed the core of the David Sarnoff Library when it opened at the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton in 1967. When the library closed in 2009, the archival collections were donated to Hagley and the museum objects went to The College of New Jersey. The David Sarnoff Library technical reports (Accession 2009.1214.DS) collection consists of technical reports that were once part of the David Sarnoff Library's collection. These reports have been maintained in their original order and cataloged using the Sarnoff Library's catalog cards. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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The David Sarnoff Research Center (DSRC) in Princeton, New Jersey was the central research organization for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) from 1942 to 1987. Following GE’s acquisition of RCA in 1986, the DSRC was donated to SRI International as a contract research laboratory. The David Sarnoff Research Center records (Accession 2464.09) collection documents the pioneering research of its scientists and traces the history of the organization from its establishment into the twenty-first century. It has not been digitized in its entirety. This collection is part of the David Sarnoff Library collections (Accession 2464). These collections were the holdings of the David Sarnoff Library, founded in 1967 as part of the David Sarnoff Research Center. When the library closed in 2009, its archival collections were donated to Hagley Library.

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David Sarnoff (1891-1971) was the head of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for most of the company's history. For many years the only Jewish executive in the communications field, Sarnoff was highly influential in the development of radio and television. The David Sarnoff papers (Accession 2464.55) collection was assembled by Sarnoff to celebrate his career. However, the papers also include the extensive photographic, publicity, and administrative files created by his staff at RCA and a substantial audiovisual component. It has not been digitized in its entirety. This collection form the initial core collection of the David Sarnoff Library collections (Accession 2464). These collections were the holdings of the David Sarnoff Library, founded in 1967 as part of the David Sarnoff Research Center. When the library closed in 2009, its archival collections were donated to Hagley Library.

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Pierre S. du Pont incorporated the Delaware School Auxiliary Association in 1919 to finance the construction of new school buildings throughout the state. Between 1918 and 1940 du Pont donated $5,000,000 to build some 120 schools. The Delaware School Auxiliary Association photographs (Accession 1969.044) collection contains photographs, almost all exterior, of 114 public elementary and secondary schools in Delaware. These include old school buildings and the new ones that replaced them in the building program instituted by Pierre S. du Pont. To learn more about the legacy of segregation in Delaware education, see A Separate Place: The Schools that P.S. du Pont Built. Image: Christiana Colored School as constructed in 1920.

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The Delaware State Fair was first held in Wilmington, Delaware around the turn of the twentieth century. In 1917, the Delaware State Fair Association purchased land in nearby Elsmere, where new fairgrounds were built which included racetracks for horses and automobiles, exhibition buildings, and a large parking area. In 1928, the fair moved 60 miles south to Harrington, Delaware. The Delaware State Fair albums (Accession 1991.212) collection consists primarily of two albums of photographs of the Delaware State Fair from 1919, 1920, and 1921. Subjects primarily include livestock, agricultural displays, automobile displays, arts & crafts displays, displays of various youth organizations, vendor booths, horse and car races, dog shows, and views of the crowds. The albums have not been digitized in their entirety.

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When the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western (DL&W) Railroad added direct ownership of coal mining facilities to its operation in 1851, its combination of mining and transportation industries under one corporate entity gave it a market advantage. The DL&W became one of the largest and most prosperous anthracite transporting and mining companies in Pennsylvania. However, following the successfully prosecuted antitrust suit of United States v. Delaware, Lackawanna & W. R. Co. in 1915, as well as a series of antitrust actions against competitors, the DL&W voluntarily divested itself of its mining operations, which were reorganized under the Glen Alden Coal Company in 1921. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co. Coal Department photographs (Accession 1990.267) collection consists of dated and undated views of mining equipment, mine tunnels, and mine building exteriors and interiors in the eastern Pennsylvania counties of Lackawanna and Luzerne. Most of the views are exteriors devoid of workers. Many of the photographs include a photo credit for W. B. Bunnell, the official photographer of the DL&W.

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The Disposor Corporation was incorporated on July 17, 1933. It is a foreign business corporation with headquarters in New York, New York. The Disposor Corporation was the sales agent for the General Fan Corporation of New York City in the 1930s. Ernst Glantzberg (?-1936) was the President of General Fan Corporation which manufactured the Typhoon fan and other significant heating, ventilating and cooling units. The Disposor Corporation album (Accession 2013.258) consists of fourteen photographs of various mechanical units (ventilating and cooling) on display at exhibits or installed in businesses, including a ship and restaurants. These images were put together by Disposor Corporation into a sales album. The album also includes images of various styles of grilles that the General Fan Corporation offered and three charts of various product specifications and prices. The photographs have been unbound for preservation. Six photographs are missing from the album.

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DuPont Motors, Inc. was a manufacturing company of luxury automobiles, founded by E. Paul du Pont (1887-1950) in 1919 in Wilmington, Delaware. The company produced eight models, each with several body styles, as well as a few special models. Each of the vehicles was made in limited production, resulting in only 537 vehicles manufactured in the twelve years of the company’s operation. The company suspended production in 1931 due to effects of the Great Depression and went out of business in 1932. The images in the Du Pont Motors photographic reproductions (Accession 1979.285) collection consists of thirty-eight photographs, primarily showing the exteriors of DuPont Motor’s Models A, B, D, and G.

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The du Pont family miscellany collection is part of the Longwood Manuscripts collection (Accession LMSS) of family papers assembled by Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954)(link is external) for his Longwood Library collection. Now held at Hagley Library, the Longwood Manuscripts collection is divided into ten collection groups. This, the ninth of those groups, contains business and personal papers related to the family and E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. This, the fourth of those groups, contains the papers of the descendants of Victor Marie (1767-1827) and Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771–1834) and members of allied families. The principal holdings in the Du Pont descendants' and allied families' papers (Accession LMSS.IV) collection are for Amelia Elizabeth du Pont (1796-1869) and Charles Irénée du Pont (1797-1869), children of Victor du Pont, and Charles's wife, Dorcas Van Dyke (1806-1838), as well as for Victorine du Pont Bauduy (1792-1861), Alfred Victor du Pont (1798-1856), and Eleuthera du Pont Smith (1806-1876), children of E.I. du Pont. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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The du Pont family miscellany collection is part of the Longwood Manuscripts collection (Accession LMSS) of family papers assembled by Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954) for his Longwood Library collection. Now held at Hagley Library, the Longwood Manuscripts collection is divided into ten collection groups. This, the ninth of those groups, contains business and personal papers related to the family and E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. The Du Pont family miscellany (Accession LMSS.IX) collection is organized into three series: Correspondence, business, and personal documents (personal letters between family members, promissory notes, and business correspondence); Copies and extracts of correspondence and other documents (transcripts of various authors' biographies of Du Pont de Nemours and personal family correspondence); and Illustrative materials (sketches and drawings, scale drawings and diagrams, and plats of land). This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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DuPont Allied Business Firms records are part of the Longwood Manuscripts collection (Accession LMSS) of family papers assembled by Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954)</a> for his Longwood Library collection. Now held at Hagley Library, the Longwood Manuscripts collection is divided into ten collection groups. The DuPont Allied Business Firms records (Accession LMSS.VI), the sixth of those groups, consists of the papers of Du Pont, Bauduy & Company (1803-1815); Du Planty, McCall & Company (1813-1837); Brandywine Mill Seat Company (1798-1854); A. Cardon & Company (1824-1833); and the Rockland Manufacturing Company (1825-1856). These early companies, established by members of the du Pont family, operated on the Brandywine Creek in proximity to the mills of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. These businesses included factories that produced tanned leather, woolen and cotton cloth, and yarns. The firms also owned properties that were used by, or sold to, other developers of mills in the region. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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The DuPont Building, located on Rodney Square in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, was built between 1905 and 1907. It was the third office building and headquarters of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company. The building was enlarged between the years 1911 and 1913 to include the Hotel du Pont and the Playhouse Theatre. The Du Pont Building construction photographs (Accession 1976.341) collection documents the construction of the DuPont Building. Included are photographs of buildings which were demolished to make way for the new building, as well as views of the various stages of demolition and construction. The 1911-13 additions of the Hotel du Pont and the Playhouse theater are also documented. There are also interior views of the Hotel du Pont, including the lobby, hotel rooms, and the Green Room, among others.

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The DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226) collection consists of more than 1200 photographs depicts the landscape and buildings at or near the DuPont explosives manufacturing plants along Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware. Approximately 900 images depict powder yard sites, including the DuPont Experimental Station, either during the mills' final decades of operation or prior to, during, and after excavation and restoration work on the site in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of the remaining images depict the worker communities which surrounded the powder yards.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours, or the DuPont Company, was first formed in 1802 as a manufacturer of gunpowder. In 1902, the company incorporated in Delaware and began to experiment with new forms of organization as it worked to extend its control over the black powder and high explosives business, thus laying the foundations for the Engineering Department. The Engineering Division of the High Explosives Department was consolidated with the Black Powder Engineering Division in 1911 to become the Engineering Department. It's purpose was to design, construct, and create extensions to plants, and to design powder machinery. The DuPont Company Engineering Department photographs (Accession 1982.300) collection consists of photographs documenting 209 construction projects throughout the company's many different work sites, including some outside construction projects. It has not been digitized in its entirety.

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DuPont's Executive Committee was formed on February 4, 1903, as part of the reorganization and modernization of the DuPont Company undertaken by Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954), T. Coleman du Pont (1863-1930), and Alfred I. du Pont (1864-1935). The Executive Committee became the principal body for coordinating the work of the company's various departments of the rapidly growing and modernizing company; establishing company organizational structure and policy, approving capital expenditures and contracts, and fixing salary levels, bonuses, and other compensation. This collection contains files of historical interest from the 1903 to 1921 period, dossiers for patent and licensing agreements and capital improvements, departmental annual reports, and committee files.

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The External Affairs Department was responsible for all company advertising, publicity, and public affairs for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont Company. The department was created on January 1, 1986, by the merger of the Marketing Communications and Public Affairs departments. However, the department's roots goes back to 1911, when the Advertising Division of the Sales Department was created. The DuPont Company External Affairs Department photographs (Accession 2004.268) collection consists of departmental photograph reference files covering a wide array of the company's activities. It is a comprehensive resource for images showing manufacturing processes, DuPont Company industrial plants and office buildings, aerials and exteriors, employee group and individual executive portraits, and product shots. The bulk of the images date from the 1940s through the 1990s. Only a small portion of the collection has been digitized.

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The DuPont Company Museum collection consists of photographs and prints that document the history of the DuPont Company. The materials in this collection were originally compiled by the DuPont Company Museum, transferred to the Hagley Museum in 1954 and subsequently to the Hagley Library in 1968. Among other subjects, the images depict the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.; the construction of Coleman du Pont Road; production of Phenolin; game birds advertising series; Haskwell Works explosion aftermath, cartoons of employees; a female employee baseball league; and company plants at Old Hickory, TN and Farmingdale, N.J.. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety; this is a curated selection of items.

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The DuPont Company South San Francisco Plant began operation in 1935 and manufactured and packaged DuPont finishes such as Lucite paint, Duco laquers and Dulux enamels. Lucite was developed in 1931. The clear and transparent material was used as a glass substitute and in lenses, medical and dental applications, and paints. Lucite was also eventually used in paints for automotive finishes. Lucite paint replaced the Duco and Dulux paints which DuPont had created in 1920 and 1926, respectively. Duco was a durable quick-drying lacquer used for appliances and as the standard finish for GM vehicles. Dulux was glossier, which made it more popular than Duco. The DuPont Company South San Francisco Plant photographs (Accession 2003.254) collection consists of photographs, films and ephemera from the DuPont Company South San Francisco Plant dating from 1935 to 1982. The digital collection comprises most of the photographic material and a portion of the ephemera from the collection. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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The Textile Fibers Department of the DuPont Company, established in 1936 as the Rayon Department, specialized in researching and developing synthetic fibers for fabrics such as Rayon, Nylon, Teflon, Corian, and Kevlar. The DuPont Company Textile Fabrics Department videotapes, photographs, slides and promotions (Accession 2011.320) collection primarily contains video tapes (VHS and U-Matic) of employee training videos related to management, customer service and safety, as well as, informational videos about product and services, company history and events. There are also copies of the DuPont sponsored documentary films, “To Fly” and “Flyers,” and news footage about the two films. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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The Textile Fibers Department of the DuPont Company was established in 1936 as the Rayon Department, which specialized in researching and developing synthetic fibers for fabrics. In 1952, it was renamed the Textile Fibers Department to reflect the company's expanding product line, which included fibers like Nylon, Orlon, Dacron, and Lycra. The department was re-named again in 1988, becoming the Fibers Department. The DuPont Textile Fibers Department photograph album (Accession 1996.255) was made to promote the work of that department, and was probably created by DuPont's Advertising Department, which was created in 1921 and tasked with publicizing DuPont products until 1980, when it became the Marketing Communications Department. The photographs are undated, but were probably taken between 1946 and 1968.

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The Textile Fibers Department of the DuPont Company, established in 1936 as the Rayon Department, specialized in researching and developing synthetic fibers for fabrics such as Rayon, Nylon, Teflon, Corian, and Kevlar. In 1952, the DuPont Company organized a Product Information section within the Public Relations Department. Its main purpose was to create news releases accompanied by photographs that would be run editorially by trade journals and newspapers to create inexpensive publicity and indirect advertising. The DuPont Company Textile Fibers Product Information photographs (Accession 1984.259) collection consists of the Fabric master files and Textile reference files maintained by the Product Information Department. The majority of the photographs in the Fashion master files are posed fashion images featuring women modeling clothing made from DuPont synthetic fibers. There are images that feature children’s and men’s clothing as well. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, commonly referred to as the DuPont Company, is a chemical company which was established in 1802. The company began as a manufacturer of black powder, but expanded considerably during the early 1900s. The company began establishing plants all over the United States and began to manufacture other products in addition to gunpowder and explosives. The company manufactured paints, dyes, photographic products, synthetic fibers, plastics, biochemicals, and focused on applied research. The DuPont Company films and commercials (Accession 1995.300) collection consists of moving images documenting the research, development, training, safety measures, products, and promotional aspects of DuPont Company history. This includes commercials, short films, feature films, and television programs. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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In 1952, the DuPont Company organized a Product Information section within the Public Relations Department. Its main purpose was to create news releases accompanied by photographs that would be run editorially by trade journals and newspapers to create inexpensive publicity and indirect advertising. The DuPont Company product information collection collection (Accession 1972.341) contains photographs of DuPont Company corporate events and proceedings, product trade shows and fairs, development and manufacturing processes, and the employees and facilities where the products were created. Most of the photographs were taken from the 1930s through the 1950s. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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In 1910, the chemical company E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company purchased the Fabrikoid Company of Newburgh, New York, which had developed a textile coating process. The process was used in upholstery, luggage, automobile fabrics, and bookbinding. The DuPont Fabrikoid portfolio, sales promotion and development illustrations (Accession 1995.236) collection is a portfolio of separate pages with two photographs per page placed in a folder made of blue Fabrikoid. The photos illustrate the use of Fabrikoid upholstery in a variety of commercial and residential interior applications, including wall coverings in store window displays, seating and side walls in aircraft, draperies, screens, table tops, as well as furniture. The interior decorating work illustrated in this portfolio is credited to some well-known modernist designers and architects, and contains views of a number of notable businesses.

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Established in 1913, DuPont Magazine publicized the products and progress of the company during the twentieth century. The issues include articles, product information, and advertisements on topics such as dynamite, quarrying, ammunition, popular plastic products, automobile accessories, and other useful items for the home. DuPont Magazine is call number f HD9651.9.D94 A15 in Hagley's physical collections. This digital collection includes all issues published between 1913 and 2003.

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Hagley Library's DuPont plant histories scrapbook was assembled by the Technical Library division of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. The origins of the division date to 1917, with the founding of the DuPont Technical Library (now the Lavoisier Library) as part of the Chemical Department. That library was later joined by others, including the Louviers branch in 1952 and the Chestnut Run branch in 1958. These and other new branches became collectively organized under the supervision of the Service Department, then the Secretary's Department, before being assigned to the Information Systems Department in 1974. The scrapbook consists of pamphlets, clippings, magazine articles, and similar items published or created between 1919 and 1957 and documents activities at the company's chemical plants throughout the United States, This scrapbook is call number f HD9651.9.D94 A28b in Hagley Library's collection of rare books and materials.

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Duke Energy, created in 1997 through the merger of Duke Power and PanEnergy, is a leading energy company focused on electric power and gas distribution operations in the Americas whose purpose is to create superior and sustainable value for customers, employees, communities and investors through the production, delivery and sale of energy and energy services. This digital collection contains 14 reports published by Duke Energy. The reports are also available on the company's website.

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The DuPont Company World's Fair albums (Accession 1977.242) collection comprises three albums relating to E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company’s participation in World’s Fairs. One album focuses on the company’s efforts to promote its exhibits in the New York World's Fair and the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, both held in 1939. Another gives a photographic preview of the company’s exhibit at the San Francisco Exposition. The final album is a proposal portfolio from industrial designer, Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960), and highlights other projects Teague had recently completed.

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A view of all collections in the Hagley Digital Archives that include material related to the DuPont Company and du Pont family. For a more comprehensive search of all du Pont and DuPont related content at the Hagley Library see our Search Collections page.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The company, which initially manufactured gunpowder, was established in 1802 by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and his son Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834). The E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company photographs (1993.256) collection consists of photographs that document two separate activities. The first grouping shows an outdoor safety demonstration of Nyalite, a new explosive developed at the DuPont Experimental Station. This demonstration was probably conducted in the Hagley powder yards. Nyalite, an nitrostarch explosive compound developed in 1905, was designed for use in coal mines, and was marketed as a safer alternative to other mining explosives. The second group documents the pulp keg mill near Squirrel Run which, after the powder yards closed, was used for record storage by the DuPont Company. Photographs show exterior and interior views.

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This collection is part of the Longwood Manuscripts collection (Accession LMSS) of family papers assembled by Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954) for his Longwood Library collection. Now held at Hagley Library, the Longwood Manuscripts collection is divided into ten collection groups. This, the fifth of those groups, consists of the papers the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. The company was organized in Paris in 1801 by Pierre Samuel "P.S." du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and his son Eleuthère Irénée "E.I." du Pont (1771-1834) for the manufacture of gunpowder. The next year, E.I. du Pont purchased a mill site on the banks of the Brandywine River just north of Wilmington, Delaware, and began making preparations to establish a black powder manufactory. The E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. records (Accession LMSS.V) collection consists of records of the firm of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company collected by P.S. du Pont and separated from the main body of company records. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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In 1801, French immigrants Eleuthère Irénée "E.I." du Pont (1771-1834) and his father Pierre Samuel "P.S." du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) organized the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (alternatively referred to as the DuPont Company) in Paris for the purpose of manufacturing gunpowder in America. The company would grow to be the nation's preeminent gunpowder company for the next century. The E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company nineteenth century records (Accession 0500.I) collection comprises the nineteenth-century records of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., extending to the date of the second incorporation of the company in 1902. This digital collection includes more than 3300 items from the collection. The digitized material primarily consists of correspondence received by the company between 1802 and 1886 from customers, sales agents, and other business associates, including correspondence with sales agents describe the marketing of black powder to the Army, Navy, coal mine operators, and railroad entrepreneurs. Also included are ledgers which document wages of individual workers and describe living standards.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours was incorporated in Delaware on February 26, 1902. After the incorporation T. Coleman du Pont was named president and his cousins Alfred I. du Pont and Pierre Samuel du Pont were named vice president and treasurer respectively. In the ensuing years, the company began to experiment with new forms of organization and began to systematically extend its control over the black powder and high explosives business. This digital collection includes items from the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company twentieth century records (Accession 0500.II) collection. The items digitized to date primarily consist of administrative and financial records of the companies contracted or absorbed by DuPont in the years after 1902, many of them former competitors. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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As DuPont began to diversify its product line beyond gunpowder and explosives in the early twentieth century, the company had a need for more advertising. DuPont established an Advertising Division within the Sales Department between 1907 and 1909, which was reorganized into a separate Advertising Department in 1921. The E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Advertising Department records (Accession 1803) collection consists of background research files on ad campaigns run in individual industrial departments for various products and to promote the company as a whole. It has not been digitized in its entirety. This digital collection comprises magazine tearsheets featuring DuPont advertisements dating from 1901 to 1971. A variety of brands and products are represented, including gunpowder, automobile supplies, Cellophane, paints, cleaning supplies, Rayon, Nylon, Dacron, and Fabrikoid.

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This digital collection features a selection of maps, largely dating to the first two decades of the twentieth century, of the Brandywine Works of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, now the site of Hagley Museum and Library. The items in this digital collection are sourced from a variety of collections and accessions within the Hagley Library.

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The DuPont Company purchased the land for a smokeless powder plant at Carney's Point, New Jersey in 1890. In 1892, it began producing guncotton and the first smokeless powder. The plant grew in response to demand from the Spanish-American War, but really boomed during World War I. The thousands of workers employed there at the time were provided with company housing in a workers' village. The plant continued production into the early 1970s, when it was abandoned and dismantled. John A. Dick (1879-1972), the first full-time photographer hired by the DuPont Company, documented the growth of the plant during WWI in these photographs. The twenty images that make up the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Carney's Point Works and workers housing panoramic photographs (Accession 1969.138) collection include documentation of the workers' village, the 'girls dormitory', supervisors' housing, sections of the plant, and photographs of workers and village residents.

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In 1919, DuPont created a room specifically for maintaining large charts that showed important financial statistics for its explosives business and emerging chemical ventures. The room was located on the ninth floor of the DuPont Building in Wilmington, nearby the offices of the company's Executive Committee members. By the early 1970s, the use of the Chart Room had declined. This was largely due to the adoption of new printing and reproduction technologies like the Xerox® copy machine, along with the growing use of overhead projectors. Before his retirement, Charles Brelsford McCoy (1909-1995), DuPont’s CEO from 1967 to to 1973, replaced the Chart Room with booklets distributed to the Executive Committee and Board of Directors. This digital collection unites a number of small collections at Hagley that document the establishment and use of DuPont company's Chart Room; DuPont Company chart room panoramic photograph (Accession 2005.273), DuPont Company chart room and Hush-a-Phone photographs (Accession 1974.298), and publications by the company's Treasurer's Department.

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Edith N. McConnell (1880-1968) was a confectioner and caterer in Wilmington, Delaware from the 1920s through the 1950s. The E.N. McConnell Restaurant photographs (Accession 1969.026) collection consists of 13 photographs, mostly dating from circa 1945, of wedding cakes, table settings, and the interior of Edith McConnell's confectionery business. Some photographs show members of bridal parties, waiters, and restaurant staff, and a few of the individuals pictured are identified. Locations shown include the Newark Country Club, Scott Church, E.N. McConnell Restaurant, Blue Cross, and the home of Miss Amy du Pont.

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The Edmond Rhett du Pont photograph collection (Accession 1972.238) primarily contains images of Du Pont Company buildings and worksites, du Pont family members, and family homes. Other slides include a number of astronomical photographs dating from the 1850s to the 1870s, and a few slides of an engine used in a study. There is a small number of commercially produced travel views from Europe and Niagara Falls, Canada. There are also a few hand-drawn lantern slides of birds and four slip-slide animated lantern slides. Some of the photographs in this collection, in particular those of Carney's Point, may well have been photographed by Francis G. du Pont, who is known to have taken his own telescopic photographs and was an avid astronomer. He was also the superintendent of the Carney's Point plant, which is featured prominently in the 114 glass negatives included in the collection.

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The Edward J.S. Seal photographic reproductions (Accession 1971.336) collection features over 300 photographs taken by the Seal family of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania during the first half of the twentieth century. Edward James Shimer Seal (1896-1955) was a farmer and photographer. The son of Howard Ellsworth Seal (1859-1940) and Annie Lincoln Shimer Seal (1864-1920), he grew up on Locust Knoll Farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Later in his life, Seal owned Wilmington Camera Shop in Wilmington, Delaware. Many of these images offer a glimpse into family and town life in Chadds Ford and Wilmington, Delaware during the 1920s and 1930s, featuring Seal family members, friends, neighbors, and employees. Other subjects include the 1939 World's Fair in New York, the artists N.C. and Andrew Wyeth, and local bridges and roads.

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Eleuthera Bradford du Pont (1873-1953) was the daughter of Edward Green Bradford (1848-1928) and his wife, Eleuthera Paulina du Pont (1848-1906), who was, in turn, the daughter of Alexis Irénée du Pont (1816-1857), the youngest child of E.I. du Pont (1771-1834). Eleuthera married Henry Belin du Pont (1873–1902) in 1897. This digital collection is a small selection of items from the Eleuthera Bradford du Pont Collection (Accession 0146), which documents important aspects of the early history of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. The materials digitized to date include three company account books dating from 1802 to 1809 as well as corporate correspondence with a Philadelphia businessman, dating to 1805, and with an agent in Cuba, dating from 1821 to 1825. There is also an 1806 letter of introduction for the company written by Aaron Burr.

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Construction began on the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library (now Hagley Library) in 1959 on the site of the Hagley Museum along the Brandywine Creek north of Wilmington, Delaware. In the summer of 1961, the holdings of the library were moved from the Peirce-du Pont House at Longwood to the newly constructed library building. The dedication ceremony for the library was held October 7, 1961. The Eleutherian Mills Historical Library Dedication audiovisual material (Accession 2011.324) collection contains material related to the dedication; a copy of the dedication booklet, an audiorecording of the ceremony, and photographs of the dedication festivities as well as exterior and interior images of the building. Most attendees photographed are identified. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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The Hagley Museum began producing research reports in 1953 for the purpose of developing and elaborating its exhibits and interpretations. They were prepared by a permanent research staff and by participants in the Hagley Fellowship Program, administered jointly with the University of Delaware, many of whom went on to distinguished careers in the history of technology and business. <ol>The reports were produced from manuscript and secondary sources at the Hagley Museum and Library. They have the advantage of collecting and condensing information on selected topics relating to the industrial history of the Brandywine Valley and providing tracings back to the original sources. These reports are maintained in the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645) collection, which also includes scholarly articles that use Hagley's collections or about subjects that pertain to Hagley's mission. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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Éleuthère was a French American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. He married Sophie Madeline Dalmas (1775-1828) in 1791. The papers of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (1771-1834) and Sophie Dalmas du Pont (1775-1828) are part of the Winterthur Manuscripts collection</a> of family papers assembled by Colonel Henry Algernon du Pont (1838-1926) and his son, Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969) of Winterthur. Now held at Hagley Library, the Winterthur Manuscripts collection is divided into ten sub-collections. The Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife, Sophie Dalmas du Pont, papers (Accesson WMSS.IV) collection is the fourth of these sub-collections. It includes the outbound and inbound correspondence of the couple and of the company, covering personal and business matters. These include personal accounts, writings and memoirs, legal documents, and miscellany, of which the majority are accounts. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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The papers of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (1771–1834) are part of the Longwood Manuscripts collection (Accession LMSS) of family papers assembled by Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954) for his Longwood Library collection. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours was a French American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.</ol> Now held at Hagley Library, the Longwood Manuscripts collection is divided into ten collection groups. The Eleuthère Irénée du Pont papers (Accession LMSS.III) is the third of those groups, and consists of E.I. du Pont's personal and business correspondence; writings and notes; school materials; memoranda on manufactures and tariffs; legal agreements; patents; and land surveys. Also included are papers concerning the South Brandywine Rangers, a militia unit during the War of 1812. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety.

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Elizabeth Webb (1663-1726) was a minister of the Society of Friends, wife of Richard Webb of Gloucestershire, England, and later of Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. In November 1697, Elizabeth Webb and her companion, Mary Rogers, left Bristol, England, in order to visit several important Quaker meetings in North America. They returned to England in May 1699. "A short account of my viage (sic!) into America with Mary Rogers my companion" (Accession 0096) is Webb's journal of that 1697 visit. It includes references to all places visited, especially meetings in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island. The names of many Friends are included, and there is much about her religious feelings and inspiration, with some detail on the problems of travel, but little descriptive material on the colonies or the mode of life which then prevailed.

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Enron Corp. was incorporated in Delaware on April 25, 1930 as the Northern Natural Gas Company. The rise and fall of Enron Corp., a natural gas utility transformed into the world’s largest energy trader, followed a pattern of boom and bust familiar in the history of American business. The papers in the Enron Corp. board records (Accession 2487) collection belonged to Herbert “Pug” Winokur, a member of Enron’s board of directors and chair of its finance committee and are one of the few extant collections of Enron board materials. Winokur used these records to prepare for depositions associated with the Enron bankruptcy. This collection contains meeting minutes, supporting materials and other documents relating to the Department of Justice investigation into the Enron Corp. from 1997 to 2002. It has not been digitized in its entirety.

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Ernest Dichter (1907-1991) was a major pioneer in consumer motivational research. Early in his career, he worked for the advertising agency of J. Stirling Getchell, Inc. and for the CBS Network before starting his own consulting business in 1946. Dichter provided these services for a wide range of international clients and released a number of newsletter-style serial publications about his work and research. Dichter specialized in the "depth interview" approach, in which samples of target consumers were subjected to a battery of psychological tests and psychoanalytic analysis. This online collection is a small sample of items from two collections at Hagley Library; the Ernest Dichter papers (Accession 2407) collection and the Ernest Dichter photographs and sound recordings (Accession 2009.226) collection. These collection have not been digitized in their entirety. Additional material from the Ernest Dichter papers can be also found in the subscription database, Market Research & American Business, 1935-1965. The database is available to Hagley's on-site researchers and database subscribers

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