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Title: Nylon yarn plant outside of Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant (associated name)
Description: Aerial view of the first nylon yarn plant of the DuPont Company just outside Seaford, Delaware looking south toward the Nanticoke River. The building is one-fifth of a mile long. Surrounding country is predominately agricultural.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1300
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Sizing or putting a protective coating on nylon yarn in DuPont plant at Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant (associated name)
Description: The yarn is wound from one package to another; passing over a substance which gives it added protection during textile manufacturing operations. The size is subsequently removed from the finished products.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1189
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: The Seaford story : Seaford Nylon Plant and community development
Date(s): 1964
Contributor(s): Kelley, J. A. (James Arthur), 1915-1990 (author)
Hagley ID: 08026699_seaford_story
Collection: Hagley Library published collections

Title

Expansion of Du Pont Plant Facilities

Date(s)

1950

Contributor(s)

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Carney's Point Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Niagara Falls Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Chambers Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Waynesboro Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Washington Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Belle Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Chattanooga Nylon Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Clinton Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Pigments Department E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Edge Moor Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Martinsville Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. May Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Sabine River Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. South San Francisco Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Victoria Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Houston Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. James River Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Toledo Plant (associated name)

Description

Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects:

expansion of the Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware;

construction of a nylon plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee;

construction of the May Orlon plant in Camden, South Carolina;

expansion of a neoprene plant in Louisville, Kentucky;

construction of a chemicals plant in Victoria,...
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Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects:

expansion of the Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware;

construction of a nylon plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee;

construction of the May Orlon plant in Camden, South Carolina;

expansion of a neoprene plant in Louisville, Kentucky;

construction of a chemicals plant in Victoria, Texas;

construction of the Sabine River Works chemicals plant in Orange, Texas;

construction of the Washington Works chemicals and plastics plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia;

construction of the Houston Works agricultural chemicals plant in La Porte, Texas;

construction of the James River Works sulfuric acid plant in Richmond, Virginia;

construction of a formaldehyde plant in Toledo, Ohio;

expansion of the Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant;

expansion of the Seaford, Delaware nylon plant;

expansion of a chemicals plant in Niagara Falls, New York;

expansion of the Waynesboro, Virginia acetate rayon plant;

expansion of the Edge Moor pigments plant in Wilmington, Delaware;

expansion of the Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant;

expansion of the Deepwater Plant at Deepwater Point, New Jersey;

expansion of the South San Francisco paint plant; expansion of the Belle, West Virginia chemicals plant;

expansion of the nitrocellulose unit at the Carney's Point Works in Carney's Point, New Jersey.

Item 20 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
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Collection ID

f HD9651.9.D94 A28b

Hagley ID

fHD96519D94A28b_020

Collection

DuPont plant histories scrapbook

Title: Nader Study Group press release (December 1971)
Date(s): 1971-12-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), McCoy, Charles Brelsford, 1909-1995 (associated name), Center for Study of Responsive Law (associated name), Nader, Ralph (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Public Relations Department (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant (associated name)
Collection ID: Charles Brelsford McCoy papers (Accession 1815)
Hagley ID: MSS_1815_35_08_010
Collection: Charles Brelsford McCoy papers

Title: Interview with Wayne Wilke, 2009 March 06
Date(s): 2009-03-06
Contributor(s): Wilke, Wayne, 1945- (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: Wilke's interview exemplifies the rise of chemical engineers in the DuPont Company during the "Golden Age of Fibers." Wilke remarks on DuPont's success in Nylon business, the growth of the global business and downturn phases, and his own personal growth and success. Interview also includes technical details about processes and products as well as descriptions of Wilke's experiences working in Germany and Asia. Interview is filled with humorous stories including the annual game hunt on DuPont...
Show moreWilke's interview exemplifies the rise of chemical engineers in the DuPont Company during the "Golden Age of Fibers." Wilke remarks on DuPont's success in Nylon business, the growth of the global business and downturn phases, and his own personal growth and success. Interview also includes technical details about processes and products as well as descriptions of Wilke's experiences working in Germany and Asia. Interview is filled with humorous stories including the annual game hunt on DuPont property in Germany, tipping over in a horse cart with Ed Woolard at the Seaford fiftieth anniversary, and scavenging for "presidential blue" Stainmaster carpet for President George H. W. Bush's visit to the plant.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20090306_Wilke
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: DuPont commercial featuring Nylon plant in Seaford, Delaware, Cavalcade of America Commercials Reel No.2
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant (associated name)
Description: Editor of town newspaper 'The Leader', Wright Robinson, discusses how Seaford was once a small farming community but DuPont's Nylon plant, built in 1939, employed about 1200 people and was instrumental in the town expansion.
Collection ID: Cavalcade of America television commercials on film (Accession 2005.254)
Hagley ID: FILM_2005254_FC02_01
Collection: DuPont Company films and commercials, Film and Video

Title: Dacron
Date(s): 1957
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Advertising Department (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. External Affairs Department (former owner), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Textile Fibers Department (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Kinston Plant (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Old Hickory Plant (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant (associated name)
Description: Photographs and text describing Dacron production; includes images and descriptions of plant exteriors and interiors, employees at work, product testing, and magnified views of Dacron fibers. Also includes a section on Nylon; numbers printed underneath photographs indicate that the pages are in the accurate original order, despite this section being thematically out of order.
Collection ID: DuPont Textile Fibers Department photograph album (Acccession 1996.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_1996255_004
Collection: DuPont Company Textile Fibers Department photograph album

Title: Nylon
Date(s): 1957
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Advertising Department (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. External Affairs Department (former owner), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Textile Fibers Department (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Martinsville Plant (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Spruance Plant (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Chattanooga Nylon Plant (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station (associated name)
Description: Photographs and text describing Nylon production; includes images and descriptions of plant exteriors and interiors, employees at work, product testing, product development and research, and magnified views of Nylon fibers.
Collection ID: DuPont Textile Fibers Department photograph album (Acccession 1996.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_1996255_002
Collection: DuPont Company Textile Fibers Department photograph album

Title: DuPont Company Seaford Plant records
Creator: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant
Accession: 2777
Collection: info:fedora/islandora:ead