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Title: Interview with Marshall Johnson, part 2, 2018 October 24
Date(s): 2018-10-24
Contributor(s): Johnson, Marshall B., 1938- (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than...
Show moreIn this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than building the product from scratch.
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Collection ID: Oral history interview with Marshall Johnson (Accession 2023.204)
Hagley ID: 2023204_20181024_Johnson_interview_002
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with Ken White, part 1, 2019 June 26
Date(s): 2019-06-26
Contributor(s): White, Ken, 1923-2020 (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Strunk, Nicole (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: Part 1 of 2. In this interview Ken White discusses the early parts of his life and career as an industrial designer. White talks about his military service, his interest in design and how he learned his trade. He also talks about his early career contacts with Raymond Loewy. White goes on to describe his creative process and approach to design. He does this by describing several different projects in detail.
Collection ID: Oral history interview with Ken White (Accession 2023.203)
Hagley ID: 2023203_20190626_White_interview
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with Marshall Johnson, part 1, 2018 October 24
Date(s): 2018-10-24
Contributor(s): Johnson, Marshall B., 1938- (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than...
Show moreIn this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than building the product from scratch.
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Collection ID: Oral history interview with Marshall Johnson (Accession 2023.204)
Hagley ID: 2023204_20181024_Johnson_interview_001
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with James Cortada, 2018 June 7
Date(s): 2018-06-07
Contributor(s): Cortada, James W., Dr. (interviewee), Williams, Amrys O. (interviewer), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, James Cortada discusses the collection of computing history books that he donated to Hagley. He describes how he acquired the collection, his philsophy on collecting, and some of what he feels are the most important titles in the collection.
Collection ID: Oral history interview with James Cortada (Accession 2018.227)
Hagley ID: 2018227_20180607_Cortada_interview
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with Ella Fitzharris, March 4 [audio]
Date(s): 1984-03-04
Contributor(s): Fitzharris, Ella (interviewee), Frazier, Chris (interviewer)
Description: Fitzharris discusses childhood activities, school, chores, home traditions, types of excursions, styles of clothing, and people and families she knew in the area.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_10913_fitzharris_part3
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Designed for Profits : The Westinghouse Waste-Away production script
Date(s): 1953
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (Sponsor), Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: A script for a sales training film production for Westinghouse Waste-Away sales staff. The script walks through a typical sales demonstration of the Waste-Away, highlighting the device's Safe-Top Control, Double-Life Shredders, and powerful motor. The production concludes by encouraging Westinghouse salesmen to capitalize on the prosperous Waste-Away market.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_22_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Mills on the Brandywine, Map of the Brandywine River near Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1952
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (associated name), Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (cartographer)
Description: Artist rendering of the mills along the Brandywine River in the vicinity of the former DuPont Powder Yards near Wilmington, Delaware
Collection ID: Hagley File (Accession 1969.001)
Hagley ID: HF_M13_016
Collection: Maps and Plans of the Hagley Site and Buildings, DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs

Title: The Mills on the Brandywine
Date(s): 1952
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (associated name), Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (artist)
Description: Sketch map of the DuPont mills on the Brandywine Creek. The image was used as the endpapers for "DuPont: Autobiography of an American enterprise" published in 1952. This print was signed by the artist Oct. 26, 1953, and hand colored by Wilmington artist Charles Colombo.
Collection ID: Frank Schoonover "The Mills on the Brandywine" print (Accession 2005.212)
Hagley ID: AVD_2015212_001
Collection: Maps and Plans of the Hagley Site and Buildings

Title: Eastbound New York Central train locomotive 5959-A on Lake Erie and Pittsburgh Railway line at Brandywine trestle near Northfield, Ohio
Date(s): 1957-03
Contributor(s): Harwood, Herbert H., Jr. (photographer)
Collection ID: Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. collection of railroad negatives (Accession 2019.212)
Hagley ID: 2019212_NYC_LEP_Northfield_5959
Collection: Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. collection of railroad negatives

Title: Breakfasting at Broad Street Station, Philadelphia
Date(s): 1920-01-20
Contributor(s): Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. South Philadelphia Works Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (originator), Yessel, Charles, 1877-1953 (photographer)
Description: Transfer of Engineering Department from East Pittsburgh
Collection ID: Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Division photographs (Accession 1969.170)
Hagley ID: 69170_g14354
Collection: Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Division photographs

Title: Washington D.C. Bus Boycott
Date(s): 1966-01
Contributor(s): Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (collector), Brack, Dennis, 1939- (photographer)
Description: Photograph of activists planning a public transit strike in Washington D.C. in response to a planned fare hike.
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1993.230)
Hagley ID: AVD_1993230_068_38_001
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications

Title: Interview with Rosetta McKinley Henderson, 2022 August 6-7 [transcript]
Date(s): 2022-08-06, 2022-08-07
Contributor(s): Henderson, Rosetta McKinley (interviewee), Nutter, Jeanne D. (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: During this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her...
Show moreDuring this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her joining the debate team and debating against Barbara Jordan. She mentions teaching Sunday school and pledging at the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She then describes participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, attending meetings and hearing Martin Luther King, Jr., speak.

Henderson then discusses earning her Master's degree at Fiske University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied under Dr. Samuel Massie. She describes an incident of eating at a segregated restaurant while with her boyfriend and a professor. She then moves on to discussing her pre-doctoral research experience at Oregon State University, for which she had received a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Henderson goes on to describe her time at Ohio University pursuing a PhD and an incident in which a professor accused her of cheating when she needed to turn a desk around as she was left-handed. She describes her decision to leave the program and her job search, which was aided by a supportive professor. She mentions a job opportunity disappearing upon the recruiter learning her race and the offers she received from Corningware, Eastman Kodak, Midland, and finally DuPont.

Henderson then mentions moving to Wilmington, her research at DuPont, and an incident when a lawyer used a racial slur in a meeting. She goes into detail about the difficulty she faced finding an apartment in a segregated Wilmington and the assistance she received from colleagues. She then discusses meeting her husband, James L. Henderson, and his career as an architect in Washington, D.C. She describes having two children and the accommodations her supervisor made when she returned to the workplace. She finally discusses her time with DuPont Merck, managing the Upward Bound program at Delaware Tech and teaching a laboratory class at Neumann University.

Moving on from discussing her career, Henderson describes being active in her church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, the oldest African American Catholic church in Wilmington. She then discusses her siblings, including her sister Edith Rasberry, who Henderson recalls being the only African-American bail bondswoman in the state of Michigan and who was married to Ted Rasberry, the owner of the baseball team the Grand Rapids Black Sox. She also describes her brother Harry, who was a pilot and engineer; her brothers Roy and Brady, who owned a large demolition company; her sister Eddie Alberia, who was a surgeon; and her brother Leonard, who was a butcher.

The interviewer, Dr. Jeanne D. Nutter, then asks Henderson to revisit a few items, including her job as a teenager cleaning house for a White woman, her father's car accident, Dr. Samuel Massie, her patents, and taking a course in heterocyclic compounds at the University of Houston.
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Collection ID: Black Delawarean STEM pioneers oral history project (Accession 2021.202)
Hagley ID: 2021202_20220806_Henderson_transcript
Collection: Oral History

Title: Accession LMSS Group 10: Pierre S. du Pont papers, inventory Volume 2, Files 413 through 710
Contributor(s): Hagley Museum and Library (originator)
Collection ID: Pierre S. du Pont papers (Accession LMSS:10)
Hagley ID: FA_LMSS_10_Volume2
Collection: info:fedora/islandora:pdffa

Title: Accession LMSS Group 10: Pierre S. du Pont papers, inventory Volume 1, Files 1 through 412
Contributor(s): Hagley Museum and Library (originator)
Collection ID: Pierre S. du Pont papers (Accession LMSS:10)
Hagley ID: FA_LMSS_10_Volume1
Collection: info:fedora/islandora:pdffa

Title: Accession LMSS Group 10: Pierre S. du Pont papers, inventory Volume 3, Files 711 through 1207
Contributor(s): Hagley Museum and Library (originator)
Collection ID: Pierre S. du Pont papers (Accession LMSS:10)
Hagley ID: FA_LMSS_10_Volume3
Collection: info:fedora/islandora:pdffa

Title: Cottolene: A Public Secret
Date(s): 1900
Contributor(s): N.K. Fairbank Co. (issuing body)
Collection ID: Litchfield Collection on the History of Fatty Materials (Call Number Pam 2009.841)
Hagley ID: 2270395
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets, Carter Litchfield history of fatty materials collections

Title: Philadelphia & Reading Round House in Philadelphia, Pa.
Date(s): 1900
Contributor(s): Warren-Ehret Company (originator)
Description: Located at Point Richmond, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, near the intersection of Lehigh Avenue, Aramingo Avenue and Cedar Street.
Collection ID: Warren-Ehret Company photograph albums (Accession 2002.251)
Hagley ID: 2002251_2_022
Collection: Warren-Ehret Company photographs

Title: Rolarium Roller Rink
Date(s): 1941/1942, 1941, 1942
Contributor(s): Pittner, Genevieve (collector)
Description: Sticker for Rolarium Roller Rink 17516 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio.
Collection ID: Genevieve Pittner collection of roller skating rink stickers (Accession 2012.213)
Hagley ID: 2012213_022
Collection: Genevieve Pittner collection of roller skating rink stickers

Title: Docked boat at Beach Haven, New Jersey
Date(s): 1915
Contributor(s): Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (photographer)
Collection ID: Frank E. Schoonover negatives (Accession 2017.239)
Hagley ID: 2017239_04_172
Collection: Frank E. Schoonover negatives

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