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- Title
- New soap perfumes
- Date(s)
- 1937-09
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
- Description
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New soap perfumes in the making. In the chemists laboratory, a miniature soap machine turns out hundreds of cakes of soap. Perfume to be tested is incorporated in the soap while it is mixed in the plodder. Cast in a die, the soap cakes are subjected to various experimental conditions to which soap might be exposed in reality and the cakes are observed by the chemist for a period of time, sometimes a year or more, to determine the lasting qualities of the perfume, its effect on color and other...
Show moreNew soap perfumes in the making. In the chemists laboratory, a miniature soap machine turns out hundreds of cakes of soap. Perfume to be tested is incorporated in the soap while it is mixed in the plodder. Cast in a die, the soap cakes are subjected to various experimental conditions to which soap might be exposed in reality and the cakes are observed by the chemist for a period of time, sometimes a year or more, to determine the lasting qualities of the perfume, its effect on color and other elements. The development of synthetic components for perfumes has been of major importance in the soap and cosmetic industries, where perfume are use in some cases to cover up the bad odor of fats, in other to give a pleasing smell. Every cosmetic and soap on the market is perfumed-even the cheapest type of laundry soap. Problems of price and supply are being solved by the chemist and moreover there has been a development of synthetic perfumes, useful in this field, superior to anything made by nature.
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- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0643
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Hopewell Works for guncotton at Hopewell, Virginia
- Date(s)
- 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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This guncotton plant DuPont built and operated at Hopewell, Virginia during WWI, was the largest of its kind in the world. It turned out more than one billion pounds of material and employed more than 28,000 people.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0869
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Mound City Explosives Department at Potomac River Works
- Date(s)
- 1954-03
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0820
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Julian Hill recreating synthesis of first completely synthetic fiber
- Date(s)
- 1941
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Probably the most dramatic moment in DuPont research history is re-enacted above-the birth of the first completely synthetic fiber, impractical for commercial use but true forerunner of nylon itself. Here chemist Julian Hill shows how he pulled molten sample of material from a laboratory test tube at the company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. The molasses-like mass stuck to the glass stirring rod and was drawn out into a thin fiber.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1154
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Storage tanks for methyl alcohol at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, works
- Date(s)
- 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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These are the big storage tanks for methyl alcohol (methanol) at the Perth Ambo NJ plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department where formaldehyde is manufacture from methanol and air. The quantity of methanol produced formerly depended up on the demand for charcoal made by destructive distillation of wood. Now methanol is synthesized at another DuPont plant and shipped to Perth Amboy by tanker.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0540
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Explosives Department at Repauno Works at Gibbstown, New Jersey
- Date(s)
- 1920/1929, 1920, 1929
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0842
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Section of calendar at the Newburgh, New York plant
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Section of calendar, capable of turning out millions of yards of plastic coated fabrics a year at the Newburgh plant in New York. This calendar, which weighs 175 tons was placed in operation in 1957.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_2601
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Filter press used in manufacture of photographic film
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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A press in the second stage of filters used to filter the dope as it comes from the mixing house ad before it goes to the casting area.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1585
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- A titanium ingot being drawn from furnace prior to forging and rolling
- Date(s)
- 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Titanium metal can be worked by standard equipment. Here a hot titanium ingot is being withdrawn from furnace prior to forging and rolling.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3363
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Savannah River plant
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_4008
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- One of the laboratory buildings at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
- Date(s)
- 1945-09
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William R. (photographer)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_4527
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Aero Service Corporation (photographer)
- Description
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In this image, the lower right along historic Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware the early DuPont powder mills stand in vivid contrast to the company's Experimental Station, one of the largest centers of research in the world, on the plateau above. It is appropriate that these laboratories should be located so near the first plant, for much of the company's growth can be traced to scientific discovery and its technical application.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_4515
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Parking lot of Textile Research Laboratory
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- PC20110714_0501
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Blasting in New York City
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Blast breaks up rock for quick removal. Heavy steel mats confine the flying rock in the thickly populated New York City area. Man at left in the foreground is setting off the charge.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0744
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Skeins of rayon being removed from the dryer
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Skeins of rayon being removed from the dryer at the Rayon plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company near Richmond, Virginia.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1019
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Type of spinneret used in the manufacture of viscose rayon
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Type of spinneret used by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company in the manufacture of viscose rayon. Viscose solution is extruded through tiny orifices forming individual filaments which together make the rayon thread.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1037
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Louviers Works in Colorado
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0783
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Rayon yarn on spools
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Rayon yarn on spools awaiting one of the many inspections at a rayon plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company, before it leaves the factory.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1076
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Orlon acrylic fiber quality control
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1414
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- DuPont employees at the 150th anniversary celebration
- Date(s)
- 1952-07-18
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- P20100414_038
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Elasticity, tensile strength, and elongation tests on rayon
- Date(s)
- 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Samples of rayon yarn being given tests for elasticity tensile strength and elongation at the rayon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company near Richmond, Virginia
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1091
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Explosives Department's Belin Plant near Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0860A
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- First nylon circus tent
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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Workmen preparing to raise the country's first nylon music circus tent theater at Birmingham Center, PA. The sunken concrete oval, seating 1,880 is 120 feet wide and 160 feet long.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1350
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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View of nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. The powerhouse at the rear toward the left is identified by the two smoke stacks. The tall building adjoining the power house on the right houses the polymer and spinning equipment. To the right of this are laboratories, shops, cafeteria and other service functions. The two story building in the foreground is the administration building.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_1280
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs
- Title
- Repauno Plant, Gibbstown, New Jersey
- Date(s)
- 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_0514
- Collection
- DuPont Product Information photographs