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Title: Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: 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_1278
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Nylon plant powerhouse at Martinsville, Virginia
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: View of the powerhouse at the nylon yarn plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. In the foreground is the coal conveying and coal handling equipment, with the filter plant at the extreme left.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1285
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: 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_1279
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Nylon plant administration building at Martinsville, Virginia
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: View of administration building at the new nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1283
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Interview with Robert "Bob" Brandt, 2018 June 5 and June 13
Date(s): 2018-06-05, 2018-06-13, 2018-06-05/2018-06-13
Contributor(s): Brandt, Robert (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer), (associated name)
Description: Bob Brandt spent his career at the DuPont Martinsville, Virginia, plant. After graduating high school in 1961, he attended East Carolina University for two terms before deciding to leave to seek a career. He was hired at the Martinsville plant in 1962 and progressed through various operational assignments. A talented artist, Brandt was often called upon to create posters and fliers for different groups at the plant.

In 1978, having reached the top of the manufacturing progression system and...
Show moreBob Brandt spent his career at the DuPont Martinsville, Virginia, plant. After graduating high school in 1961, he attended East Carolina University for two terms before deciding to leave to seek a career. He was hired at the Martinsville plant in 1962 and progressed through various operational assignments. A talented artist, Brandt was often called upon to create posters and fliers for different groups at the plant.

In 1978, having reached the top of the manufacturing progression system and wanting to extend his career, Brandt applied for a transfer to engineering crafts. Despite speculation that the plant was to close, in 1990 he moved into a Technical Assistance role, winning the position over several competitors. Brandt held this assignment until he retired in 1994 with one of the "reduction of force" offers DuPont made. The Martinsville plant was demolished in 1998. After retirement Brandt continued to do craft work in the Raleigh area, eventually forming his own company.
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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_20180605_Brandt
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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 Company product information collection

Title: Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: This view was taken at the nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. It shows the polymer and spinning building, where the operations of manufacturing nylon yarn begin.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1282
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Polymer and spinning building at Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This view was taken at the nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. It shows the polymer and spinning building, where the operations of manufacturing nylon yarn begin.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1286
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Nylon
Date(s): 1957, 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 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Rayon 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: Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1281
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Raw materials tank farm at Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Raw materials tank farm at the DuPont Company's second nylon textile fiber plant at Martinsville, Virginia which began operations in 1941.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1287
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Nylon plant powerhouse at Martinsville, Virginia
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: View of the powerhouse at the nylon yarn plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. In the foreground is the coal conveying and coal handling equipment, with the filter plant at the extreme left.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1284
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Martinsville, Virginia plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: 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_1276
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title

Expansion of Du Pont Plant Facilities

Date(s)

1950, 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: 'Safety Champ', Forbes magazine
Date(s): 1949-09-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Martinsville Plant (associated name)
Description: Excerpt from Forbes magazine describing safety efforts at DuPont's Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant. Vol. 64, page 21. September1, 1949. Item 6 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
Collection ID: f HD9651.9.D94 A28b
Hagley ID: fHD96519D94A28b_006
Collection: DuPont plant histories scrapbook

Title: Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The DuPont nylon yarn plant at Martinsville, Virginia is two blocks long, from one to six stories in height and is completely air conditioned. It went into operation in 1941 and its nylon yarn output doubles that of the company's first nylon plant at Seaford, Delaware.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1275
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection