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- Title
- Representative Recruitment - Argentina
- Date(s)
- 2010-03-15
- Contributor(s)
- Avon Products, Inc. (originator)
- Collection ID
- Avon Products, Inc. records (Accession AVD.2155)
- Hagley ID
- 110919_Argentina_TV008
- Collection
- Avon Products
- Title
- Representative Recruitment - 20210 Portugal TV (2009 Footage, 2nd & 3rd Flights) :20
- Date(s)
- 2010
- Contributor(s)
- Avon Products, Inc. (originator)
- Collection ID
- Avon Products, Inc. records (Accession AVD.2155)
- Hagley ID
- 110919_Portugal_TV038
- Collection
- Avon Products
- Title
- Better Living magazine
- Description
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Better Living was a Du Pont employee magazine created and published by the company's public relations department. The magazine, which began publication in 1946, featured the company's popular advertising slogan "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry."
- In keeping with this branding, its issues featured photojournalistic essays celebrating Du Pont products' contribution to improving American standards of living, features depicting Du Pont employees at work and at leisure, updates...
Show moreBetter Living was a Du Pont employee magazine created and published by the company's public relations department. The magazine, which began publication in 1946, featured the company's popular advertising slogan "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry."- In keeping with this branding, its issues featured photojournalistic essays celebrating Du Pont products' contribution to improving American standards of living, features depicting Du Pont employees at work and at leisure, updates on Du Pont activities at home and abroad, and articles extolling free market values and the role of citizen consumers in postwar America.
- Click here to view the Hagley Library's catalog record for this title.
- Image: "Arlington worker Horace Franklin poses proudly amid a miscellany of useful goods made of plastics", from "Plastics Worker: His Job Traces the Basic Pattern of Du Pont Research, Production," Better Living, vol. 3, no. 3 (May/June, 1949), p. 20. Click here to view the full issue.
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- betterlivingmag
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- Correspondence, Vital Lapeyre to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1850-09-27
- Date(s)
- 1850-09-27
- Contributor(s)
- Lapeyre, Vital (correspondent)
- Collection ID
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company records (Accession 0500.I)
- Hagley ID
- 20100611_lapeyre_00019
- Collection
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company records
- Title
- Letterpress copybook of E. E. Hendrick, 1899-1903
- Description
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This letterbook contains tissue copies of the outgoing correspondence dating from 1899 to 1903 of inventor and manufacturer E. E. Hendrick (1832-1909). Although nominally dealing with his actions as president of the Hendrick Manufacturing Company, most of the letters concern personal business, such as purchases of household goods and cigars. Most importantly, they reveal Hendicks' interest in early automobiles, with correspondence with dealers and suppliers. Hendrick tried both electric and...
Show moreThis letterbook contains tissue copies of the outgoing correspondence dating from 1899 to 1903 of inventor and manufacturer E. E. Hendrick (1832-1909). Although nominally dealing with his actions as president of the Hendrick Manufacturing Company, most of the letters concern personal business, such as purchases of household goods and cigars. Most importantly, they reveal Hendicks' interest in early automobiles, with correspondence with dealers and suppliers. Hendrick tried both electric and steam automobiles, and many of the letters are in the nature of complaints over such things as inadequate horsepower, poor riding quality, or the wrong size of tires. The letterbook has not been digitized in its entirety. The online collection comprises only the correspondence relating to automobiles. Click here for a detailed description of the letterpress copybook of E. E. Hendrick.
- Image: E. E. Hendrick to American Electric Vehicle Company, 1900-08-01. Click to view.
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- 2528
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- Anne Louis de Tousard journal and letter book
- Description
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This digital collection consists of a journal and letter book of Colonel Anne Louis de Tousard (1749-1817). The journal dates to 1791-1792 and was compiled by Tousard while a prisoner at L'Abbaye accused of counter-revolutionary activities during the 1791 slave insurrection in Saint Domingue (now Haiti) led by Toussaint L'Ouverture. The letter book, dated 1796-1802, documents Tousard's second career in the United States Army. The materials were digitized from microfilm copies. Click here for...
Show moreThis digital collection consists of a journal and letter book of Colonel Anne Louis de Tousard (1749-1817). The journal dates to 1791-1792 and was compiled by Tousard while a prisoner at L'Abbaye accused of counter-revolutionary activities during the 1791 slave insurrection in Saint Domingue (now Haiti) led by Toussaint L'Ouverture. The letter book, dated 1796-1802, documents Tousard's second career in the United States Army. The materials were digitized from microfilm copies. Click here for a detailed description of the letter book and click here for a detailed description of the journal.- Image: Anne Louis de Tousard portrait. Click to view.
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- tousard
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- How to Make a Car
- Collection
- National Automobile Dealers Association
- Title
- Correspondence, E. I. du Pont de Nemours to Francis Breuil, 1805-09-11 (Copy)
- Date(s)
- 1805-09-11
- Contributor(s)
- Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 (correspondent)
- Collection ID
- The Eleuthera Bradford du Pont Collection, 1799-1834 (Accession 0146)
- Hagley ID
- 18050911_eidp
- Collection
- Eleuthera Bradford du Pont Collection
- Title
- Stephanie Kwolek photographs
- Description
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Stephanie Louise Kwolek (1923-2014) was an American chemist best known for her role in inventing Kevlar. Kwolek began her career in 1946. After graduating from what is now Carnegie-Mellon University with a B.S. in Chemistry, she was hired as a research chemist at DuPont's textile fabrics laboratory in Buffalo, New York. Six years later, she transferred to Wilmington, Delaware to work in the newly launched Pioneering Research Laboratory.
Show moreStephanie Louise Kwolek (1923-2014) was an American chemist best known for her role in inventing Kevlar. Kwolek began her career in 1946. After graduating from what is now Carnegie-Mellon University with a B.S. in Chemistry, she was hired as a research chemist at DuPont's textile fabrics laboratory in Buffalo, New York. Six years later, she transferred to Wilmington, Delaware to work in the newly launched Pioneering Research Laboratory.
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- Kwolek_2014248
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- Strawbridge & Clothier
- Description
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- Strawbridge & Clothier was the last family-owned major department store chain in the Greater Philadelphia area. The store was founded as a partnership by Justus C. Strawbridge (1838-1911) and Isaac H. Clothier (1837-1921) on July 1, 1868 at 8th and Market Streets in Center City Philadelphia. During the 20th century the company expanded throughout the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan area by opening thirteen branch stores and twenty-seven under the Clover division. In 1996 Strawbridge and...
Show more- Strawbridge & Clothier was the last family-owned major department store chain in the Greater Philadelphia area. The store was founded as a partnership by Justus C. Strawbridge (1838-1911) and Isaac H. Clothier (1837-1921) on July 1, 1868 at 8th and Market Streets in Center City Philadelphia. During the 20th century the company expanded throughout the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan area by opening thirteen branch stores and twenty-seven under the Clover division. In 1996 Strawbridge and Clothier was sold to the May Company who, in turn, sold it to Federated Department stores a decade later, thus closing or converting the remaining branches.
- The founders stressed service to its customers, community, and employees. For employees, the company established a relief association to administer health and death benefits; a savings fund society; an athletic association; the company magazine, Store Chat; a chorus; and the Quarter Century Club, which was made up of associates with twenty-five years of service or more. For a short while, they maintained a cottage in North Wildwood for women employees to vacation at the shore. The early 1900s saw the introduction of customer-to-counter telephone service, the advent of the "Clover Day" sale day, and delivery of goods by truck.
- This collection contains select items from Hagley’s Strawbridge and Clothier holdings. It is not digitized in its entirety. For a complete inventory please visit our Finding Aids (photographs/audiovisual and company records) and Library Catalog.
- Image: The store at 8th and Market. From Store Chat (Vol. 24, No. 04).
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- strawbridgeclothier
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- A Perfect Match: Profit, Productivity, People
- Contributor(s)
- National Automobile Dealers Association (sponsor), Vince Clews (production Company)
- Collection
- National Automobile Dealers Association
- Title
- Pennsylvania Railroad negatives
- Description
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Incorporated in 1846, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company became the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. This collection of more than 5200 negatives from the official Pennsylvania Railroad files largely depict PRR trains, tracks, equipment, and facilities. The collection also contains numerous views of similar facilities and equipment on other railroads, of nearby...
Show moreIncorporated in 1846, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company became the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. This collection of more than 5200 negatives from the official Pennsylvania Railroad files largely depict PRR trains, tracks, equipment, and facilities. The collection also contains numerous views of similar facilities and equipment on other railroads, of nearby buildings and properties, or of standardized equipment and accessories that were collected by the PRR for reference.
- The negatives were digitized to positives for online access. Most of the digital images seen here are black-and-white, low resolution copies produced from the original negatives.
- Image: Locomotive 3535 Click to view.
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- AVD_1993300
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- Kelvinator Corporation electric refrigerators album
- Description
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- Kelvinator was founded in Detroit in 1916 after previously operating as the Electro-Automatic Refrigerating Company. Nathaniel B. Wales (1883-1974) was the founding engineer, and he had been developing home refrigeration units. He received financial backing from automobile executive Arnold H. Goss. The company name was an ode to the British physicist who developed the absolute temperature scale that also bears his name, Lord Kelvin.
- By 1923, Kelvinator controlled 80% of the electric...
Show more- Kelvinator was founded in Detroit in 1916 after previously operating as the Electro-Automatic Refrigerating Company. Nathaniel B. Wales (1883-1974) was the founding engineer, and he had been developing home refrigeration units. He received financial backing from automobile executive Arnold H. Goss. The company name was an ode to the British physicist who developed the absolute temperature scale that also bears his name, Lord Kelvin.
- By 1923, Kelvinator controlled 80% of the electric refrigerator market. In the 1920s, Kelvinator acquired both Leonard Refrigerator Company and Nizer Corporation. In 1937, it merged with Nash Motor Company and became a division of Nash-Kelvinator. The company expanded into other household appliances like hot water heaters, room air conditioners, and electric ranges. In 1968, Kelvinator was purchased by White Consolidated Industries, which in turn was purchased by A. B. Electrolux in 1986.
- This album appears to be a wholesaler's catalog showing sketched illustrations of the exteriors and interiors of Kelvinator refrigerator models in the D, S, and U series; three of the prints show only compressors and motors. No price list or text is included.
- To view the finding aid for this album, click here
- Image: Model AA, circa 1930. Click here to view this item in the collection.
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- AVD_1997229
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- Interview with Sister Patricia Geuting, RSCJ, 2005 September 10 [transcript].
- Date(s)
- 2005-09-10
- Contributor(s)
- Farber, David (Interviewer), James, Richard (Interviewer), Geuting, Patricia (ive)
- Description
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Geuting provides a brief summary of her background, upbringing and early schooling. She mentions that she was closer to her grandfather. She gives recollections of her visits to Pioneer Point, and going horseback riding, swimming, and skeet shooting. She speaks a little about the end of World War II, and its effects. She talks about when she was eight years old, traveling by train with her grandfather to Santa Fe to visit her grandmother, Skipper. She recounts visiting her grandfather as a...
Show moreGeuting provides a brief summary of her background, upbringing and early schooling. She mentions that she was closer to her grandfather. She gives recollections of her visits to Pioneer Point, and going horseback riding, swimming, and skeet shooting. She speaks a little about the end of World War II, and its effects. She talks about when she was eight years old, traveling by train with her grandfather to Santa Fe to visit her grandmother, Skipper. She recounts visiting her grandfather as a teenager in New York City, describes his apartment, and their activities together. She recalls meeting Governor Al Smith, going to church, and Cardinal Spellman. She discusses the families attitudes towards race and religion and talks about the foundation. She outlines the European boat trip taken with family prior to her grandfather's death and explains what lead her to a religious life. She describes summers at Pioneer Point and putting on plays for the family, playing hide-and-seek, learning to sail and swim, and celebrating Christmas and Thanksgiving. She describes her mother and Aunt Betty's relationship, her mother's health issues, the family nurse Weah for the three little ones, and nurse "Skinny" for Yvonne. Finally, she recalls visiting Empire State Building.
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- Oral history interviews with John J. Raskob family (Accession 2004.208)
- Hagley ID
- GEUTING_transcript
- Collection
- Oral history interviews with John J. Raskob family
- Title
- Fiat Automobiel Productie
- Date(s)
- 1951/1962, 1951/1962
- Contributor(s)
- Vinson, Z. Taylor, 1933-2009 (collector)
- Description
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Catalog of various Fiat vehicles available in the Netherlands; Make: Fiat; Models: 1900, 1400, 1100, 500C, 8V, 1100BL, 1100ELR, 615N, 682N, 642N, 682RN, 642RN, 401UM, 2401FM, 682T
- Collection ID
- Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV)
- Hagley ID
- 20110727_Fiat_Automobiel_Productie
- Collection
- Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera
- Title
- William Henry Radebaugh films
- Description
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William Henry Radebaugh (1909-1996), was a public relations executive at the DuPont Company for over twenty years. He wrote, produced and directed many films about the company during his tenure there and for several years after his retirement. Several of the films are concerned about safety in the plants and in the use of DuPont products. Also included are four compilation reels of short news segments about different products, plants and services of the DuPont Company. There are also films...
Show moreWilliam Henry Radebaugh (1909-1996), was a public relations executive at the DuPont Company for over twenty years. He wrote, produced and directed many films about the company during his tenure there and for several years after his retirement. Several of the films are concerned about safety in the plants and in the use of DuPont products. Also included are four compilation reels of short news segments about different products, plants and services of the DuPont Company. There are also films about specific DuPont plants and laboratories including the Haskell Laboratory, the Spruance plant in Richmond, Va.; the Tecumseh plant in Tecumseh, Kansas, the Washington plant in Washington, West Virginia and the twenty fifth anniversary of the Victoria, Texas plant. For a detailed description of the entire collection, click here to view the finding aid.- Image: Still from Haskell laboratories. Click to view.
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- 1975412
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated photographs
- Description
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The Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm responsible for maintaining affordable housing in the city of Wilmington and for ensuring the orderly development of large tracts of suburban land, mostly located in Brandywine Hundred. The online collection is a small sampling of images from the collection, which has not been digitized in its entirety. For a detailed description of the entire collection, click here to view the finding aid.
- Image: Woodlawn...
Show moreThe Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm responsible for maintaining affordable housing in the city of Wilmington and for ensuring the orderly development of large tracts of suburban land, mostly located in Brandywine Hundred. The online collection is a small sampling of images from the collection, which has not been digitized in its entirety. For a detailed description of the entire collection, click here to view the finding aid.
- Image: Woodlawn Houses in Wilmington, Delaware. Click to view.
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- 2010276
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives
- Title
- Abarth Gagne
- Date(s)
- 1962~, 1962~
- Contributor(s)
- Vinson, Z. Taylor, 1933-2009 (collector)
- Description
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Make: Abarth; Models: 700, 750, 850
- Collection ID
- Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV)
- Hagley ID
- 20120411_AbarthGagne
- Collection
- Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera
- Title
- Grace Hopper and Women Computer Programmers
- Description
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A selection of images related to computer scientist Grace Hopper (1906-1992) and other female computer programming pioneers 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: Grace Hopper presenting on COBOL programming language. Click to view.
Show moreA selection of images related to computer scientist Grace Hopper (1906-1992) and other female computer programming pioneers 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: Grace Hopper presenting on COBOL programming language. Click to view.
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- gracehopper
- Collection
- Subject and Media Gallery
- Title
- Eleutherian Mills sketch map
- Date(s)
- 1818
- Contributor(s)
- Denizot, Gabriel (artist)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226)
- Hagley ID
- HF_E26_021
- Collection
- DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs
- Title
- Oral history interviews with John J. Raskob family
- Description
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- John Raskob (1879-1950) was a financial executive for the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., General Motors, and financier of the Empire State Building. During the 1920s Raskob became active in Democratic Party politics and from 1928 to 1932 served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was an important financial backer of Governor Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) when he ran for president in 1928. This collection consists of seven oral history interviews conducted between 2004 and 2005...
Show more- John Raskob (1879-1950) was a financial executive for the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., General Motors, and financier of the Empire State Building. During the 1920s Raskob became active in Democratic Party politics and from 1928 to 1932 served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was an important financial backer of Governor Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) when he ran for president in 1928. This collection consists of seven oral history interviews conducted between 2004 and 2005 with members of John J. Raskob’s immediate family, primarily his children and grandchildren. The interviews are largely personal in nature and often focus on family relationships. Click here to view the finding aid.
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- 2004208
- Collection
- Oral History
- Title
- Accessorizing Your Way to Additional Profits: Getting Started in Accessories
- Contributor(s)
- National Automobile Dealers Association (sponsor)
- Collection
- National Automobile Dealers Association
- Title
- National Urban League publications, 1930-1960
- Description
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The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes in New York was established in 1910 to assist black migrants arriving from the rural South in adjusting to life in the urban North. Following a series of mergers, the organization's name was changed and shortened to the National Urban League in 1920.
- The interracial coalition of civil rights advocates that made up the League adopted a mission to help African-Americans "to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights." This...
Show moreThe Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes in New York was established in 1910 to assist black migrants arriving from the rural South in adjusting to life in the urban North. Following a series of mergers, the organization's name was changed and shortened to the National Urban League in 1920.- The interracial coalition of civil rights advocates that made up the League adopted a mission to help African-Americans "to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights." This mission was manifested through the provision of community-based social services, advocacy on the behalf of black workers, and other efforts to address the problems black Americans faced in securing equal access to employment, recreation, education, housing, medical care, and government services.
- This digital collection contains publications in the Hagley Library's catalog that were issued by the national and regional branches of the Urban League. In addition to the publications below, the Library also carries Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, an academic and literary journal published by the National Urban League from 1923 to 1949. To view the catalog record for this publication, click here.
- Image: National Urban League 40th Anniversary Logo, 40th Anniversary Year Book, 1951, inside covers. To view this item in the digital collection, click here.
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- nul
- Collection
- Hagley Digital Archives