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Title: Memphis, Tennessee, plant night view
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Night view of DuPont's Memphis TN plant. Plant produces sodium cyanide, hydrogen cyanide, potassium cyanide and hydrogen peroxide, essential in the manufacture of a variety of products. It also makes acrylonitrile, a raw material for Orlon acrylic fiber and Oxone monopersulfate, a new oxygen type bleaching agent. Shown in photograph from left to right are the power plant, hydrogen generating unit, hydrogen cyanide manufacturing building and pipe bridge leading to storage tanks. Waste gases...
Show moreNight view of DuPont's Memphis TN plant. Plant produces sodium cyanide, hydrogen cyanide, potassium cyanide and hydrogen peroxide, essential in the manufacture of a variety of products. It also makes acrylonitrile, a raw material for Orlon acrylic fiber and Oxone monopersulfate, a new oxygen type bleaching agent. Shown in photograph from left to right are the power plant, hydrogen generating unit, hydrogen cyanide manufacturing building and pipe bridge leading to storage tanks. Waste gases generated in manufacturing operations are burned in the flame seen above stack. The plant provides jobs for more than 500 people.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0461
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Waste from manufacturing operations at Memphis, Tennessee, plant
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Waste from manufacturing operations at DuPont's Memphis, TN plant receives special treatment before it is finally discharged into nearby stream, Building in background houses automatic controls. Pipes carry chlorine, caustic and steam, which are used in treatment of wastes. A biological stream survey was made in advance of plants construction to guide design of waste treatment facilities and to provide a standard against which plant personnel can check their findings in periodic inspection of...
Show moreWaste from manufacturing operations at DuPont's Memphis, TN plant receives special treatment before it is finally discharged into nearby stream, Building in background houses automatic controls. Pipes carry chlorine, caustic and steam, which are used in treatment of wastes. A biological stream survey was made in advance of plants construction to guide design of waste treatment facilities and to provide a standard against which plant personnel can check their findings in periodic inspection of the stream. At Memphis, these facilities represent an investment of over a half million dollars; company-wide, DuPont has put $38 million into pollut6ion abatement equipment.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0459
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Holiday Inn Hotel Courts
Date(s): 1955?, 1955
Contributor(s): Curt Teich & Co. (publisher)
Description: On back of card: 'Holiday Inn Hotel Courts. 4941 Summer Ave. - U.S. 70 & 64 East. Memphis Tennessee. AAA. Phone: 34-6687. 3 Other Locations in Memphis: U.S. 61 South - U.S. 51 North - U.S. 51 South. 450 Rooms - 450 Baths - 100% Air-Conditioned - Steam Heat - Pleasure Eating - Bridal Suite - Free Swimming Pool for Guests Only. Your Host from Coast-to-Coast' [note: Original location, and possibly building, of first ever Holiday Inn. Designed to be clean and predictable.]
Collection ID: Postcards of motels, roadside attractions, restaurants, etc. in the United States (Accession 2007.214)
Hagley ID: 2007214_044
Collection: Postcards of motels, roadside attractions, restaurants, etc. in the United States

Title: Memphis, Tennessee, plant
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Jorgensen, Victor (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0456
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Some of the massive equipment needed to produce hydrogen cyanide at the Memphis TN plant of the DuPont Company. Natural gas, ammonia and air are combined under heat and pressure to form hydrogen cyanide, which is then reacted with caustic soda to produce sodium cyanide, an industrial chemical with a host of essential uses. Expensive equipment like this has pushed DuPont's operating investment per employee to $23,000 as compared with $18,000 only a few years ago. Plant also produces hydrogen...
Show moreSome of the massive equipment needed to produce hydrogen cyanide at the Memphis TN plant of the DuPont Company. Natural gas, ammonia and air are combined under heat and pressure to form hydrogen cyanide, which is then reacted with caustic soda to produce sodium cyanide, an industrial chemical with a host of essential uses. Expensive equipment like this has pushed DuPont's operating investment per employee to $23,000 as compared with $18,000 only a few years ago. Plant also produces hydrogen peroxide and potassium cyanide.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0554
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Ammonia storage tanks at Memphis, Tennessee, plant
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Ammonia storage tanks at DuPont's Memphis, TN plant make interesting pattern of light and shadow. Each tank holds 200,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, which is one of the raw materials from which the plant produces hydrogen and sodium cyanide, important industrial chemicals. Hydrogen peroxide, widely use industrial bleach and chemical intermediate, is also made here. All told the plant provides jobs for some 500 workers.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0511
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Memphis Navy Yard : to accompany bill H.R. no. 711 : Mr. F.P. Stanton, from the Select Committee, made the following report
Date(s): 1855
Contributor(s): United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the Memphis Navy Yard (author)
Collection ID: PAM
Hagley ID: PAM_08044620
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A section of the instrument panel in central room of hydrogen peroxide manufacturing unit at the DuPont Company's Memphis TN plant. Hydrogen peroxide is widely used as a bleaching of oils, fats and waxes and as a blowing agent for sponge rubber. The Memphis plant, one of three DuPont hydrogen peroxide units, utilizes a new non-electrolytic process developed in the company's research laboratories at a cost of several million dollars.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0563
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: New Union Depot in Memphis, Tenn.
Date(s): 1910/1930, 1910, 1930
Contributor(s): Memphis Paper Co. (publisher)
Collection ID: Railroad postcards collection (Accession 1995.229)
Hagley ID: 95299_0924
Collection: Railroad station postcards collection

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Overhead bridge carries pipes from hydrogen cyanide manufacturing unit to storage tanks at Memphis TN plant of the DuPont Company's Electrochemicals Department. Two basic industrial chemicals are produced here- sodium cyanide, which is made from hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen peroxide. Sodium cyanide is used in the manufacture of nylon intermediate and in other chemical and industrial operations. Paper and textile industries use hydrogen peroxide as bleaching agent.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0555
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The DuPont Company's new non-electrolytic hydrogen peroxide plant at Memphis, TN as seen during nighttime operation. The peroxide made here is shipped to textile and pulp mills in the southern area where it is used for bleaching. The chemical is also used in the rubber industry and in the synthesis of many organic and inorganic compounds. Sodium cyanide, another basic industrial chemical which makes an essential contribution to a number of vital products, is manufactured in a separate unit at...
Show moreThe DuPont Company's new non-electrolytic hydrogen peroxide plant at Memphis, TN as seen during nighttime operation. The peroxide made here is shipped to textile and pulp mills in the southern area where it is used for bleaching. The chemical is also used in the rubber industry and in the synthesis of many organic and inorganic compounds. Sodium cyanide, another basic industrial chemical which makes an essential contribution to a number of vital products, is manufactured in a separate unit at the plant.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0559
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Union Station in Memphis, Tenn.
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): Memphis Paper Co. (publisher)
Collection ID: Railroad postcards collection (Accession 1995.229)
Hagley ID: 95299_0918
Collection: Railroad station postcards collection

Title: Retention ponds at Memphis, Tennessee, plant
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: One of two eight hour retention ponds at DuPont's Memphis, TN plant where trade waste effluent from cyanide operation is treated. From these ponds the effluent goes to a one hour retention basin to insure completion of cyanide destruction and then after waste has been made harmless it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste control facilities, costing in excess of half a million dollars, were included in plant design to insure that all effluent is adequately treated before it is released...
Show moreOne of two eight hour retention ponds at DuPont's Memphis, TN plant where trade waste effluent from cyanide operation is treated. From these ponds the effluent goes to a one hour retention basin to insure completion of cyanide destruction and then after waste has been made harmless it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste control facilities, costing in excess of half a million dollars, were included in plant design to insure that all effluent is adequately treated before it is released outside the plant. Company -wide, DuPont has invested $38 million in equipment to reduce or eliminate wastes and fumes.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0458
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing unit dramatizes the multi-million dollar investment in production facilities at Memphis, TN plant of the DuPont Company's Electrochemicals Department. Picture is taken from beneath tank car unloading station looking north. Hydrogen cyanide is reacted with caustic soda at another plant unit to form sodium cyanide, which plays an important role in electroplating, case hardening of metal., in the manufacture of a nylon intermediate an in various other chemical...
Show moreHydrogen cyanide manufacturing unit dramatizes the multi-million dollar investment in production facilities at Memphis, TN plant of the DuPont Company's Electrochemicals Department. Picture is taken from beneath tank car unloading station looking north. Hydrogen cyanide is reacted with caustic soda at another plant unit to form sodium cyanide, which plays an important role in electroplating, case hardening of metal., in the manufacture of a nylon intermediate an in various other chemical operations. Potassium cyanide and hydrogen peroxide are also made at this plant.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0552
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Hydrogen cyanide converters at DuPont's Memphis TN plant. Preheated mixture of ammonia, natural gas and air is fed down through the top of these conical converters where it is passed over a catalyst bed and converted into hydrogen cyanide. Side walls of the cones are cooled by falling film of water. Hydrogen cyanide is used in plant to make sodium cyanide, an important industrial chemical.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0556
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Ammonia storage tanks at Memphis, Tennessee, plant
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Ammonia storage tanks at DuPont's Memphis, TN plant make interesting pattern of light and shadow. Each tank holds 200,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, which is one of the raw materials from which the plant produces hydrogen and sodium cyanide, important industrial chemicals. Hydrogen peroxide, widely use industrial bleach and chemical intermediate, is also made here. All told the plant provides jobs for some 500 workers.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0460
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Coiling pipes of two waste heat boilers silhouette hydrogen peroxide manufacturing unit at DuPont's Memphis , TN plant. Hydrogen peroxide, an important bleaching agent and sodium cyanide, a second major product made at the Memphis plant, are both basic industrial chemicals. The plant, which is on a 225 acre site ten miles north of Memphis, provides direct employment for more than 500 people.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0562
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: De-aerating heater at Memphis, Tennessee, plant
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Open air type of construction is widely used at DuPont plant near Memphis, TN. Shown is de-aerating heater, part of power unit. In producing two important industrial chemicals, hydrogen peroxide and sodium cyanide, the plant utilizes recent developments in chemical and mechanical technology to improve safety efficiency and quality of the products.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0455
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: B-roll footage of MCI site construction at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1995~, 1995
Contributor(s): MCI Communications Corporation (originator)
Collection ID: MCI Communications Corporation photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2000.239)
Hagley ID: 136-1125-9
Collection: MCI Communications Corporation

Title: Interviews with Glenn Conway, John Taylor, and Ray Ebner
Date(s): 1995~, 1995
Contributor(s): MCI Communications Corporation (originator)
Description: Interviews with Glenn Conway, Project Manager for Building Construction Group, Terminal Engineering; John Taylor, District Manager for Mid-South District in Southeast Division; and Ray Ebner, Operations Manager for Memphis site. Employees discussing construction of MCI switch facility for Memphis, Tennessee.
Collection ID: MCI Communications Corporation photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2000.239)
Hagley ID: 136-1125-7
Collection: MCI Communications Corporation

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The DuPont plant in Memphis, TN makes two basic industrial chemicals, sodium cyanide and hydrogen peroxide. Building in background is the hydrogen peroxide unit which makes use of the modern open air type of construction. Peroxide is an important bleaching agent and is used in the bleaching of about 85% of all cotton goods. Growing usefulness of sodium cyanide has been found in various industries include electroplating, case hardening of metal and in making of a nylon intermediate.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0561
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Automatic controls at Memphis, Tennessee, plant
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Automatic controls for treatment of wastes at DuPont's Memphis TN plant insure that effluent is made harmless before it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste treatment area includes two large eight hour retention basins and a smaller one hour retention pond. These waste treatment facilities, installed at the time plant was build to represent an investment of more than one half million dollars. Company -wide, DuPont has spent or authorized a total of $38 million in equipment to reduce or...
Show moreAutomatic controls for treatment of wastes at DuPont's Memphis TN plant insure that effluent is made harmless before it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste treatment area includes two large eight hour retention basins and a smaller one hour retention pond. These waste treatment facilities, installed at the time plant was build to represent an investment of more than one half million dollars. Company -wide, DuPont has spent or authorized a total of $38 million in equipment to reduce or eliminate wastes and fumes.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0457
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Another view of the DuPont hydrogen peroxide unit at Memphis, TN taken from underneath a platform on the sodium cyanide plant crystallizer. Two major products made at the plant are basic industrial chemicals: hydrogen peroxide, a widely used bleach and chemical intermediate; and sodium cyanide, used extensively in electroplating and case hardening of metal and in the manufacture of nylon. The plant utilizes streamlined manufacturing processes which were developed in the company's extensive...
Show moreAnother view of the DuPont hydrogen peroxide unit at Memphis, TN taken from underneath a platform on the sodium cyanide plant crystallizer. Two major products made at the plant are basic industrial chemicals: hydrogen peroxide, a widely used bleach and chemical intermediate; and sodium cyanide, used extensively in electroplating and case hardening of metal and in the manufacture of nylon. The plant utilizes streamlined manufacturing processes which were developed in the company's extensive research laboratories.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0560
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Hydrogen cyanide manufacturing plant at Memphis, Tennessee
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A view of the hydrogen peroxide manufacturing unit at the Memphis TN plant of the DuPont Company's Electrochemicals Department. The finished product is a colorless clear liquid with a slightly pungent odor. It is widely used in bleaching textiles, including cotton, wool, silk, rayon and linen. The first hydrogen peroxide plant to be built in the South, it utilizes a new non electrolytic process developed after six years of research in DuPont laboratories. The Memphis location places the plant...
Show moreA view of the hydrogen peroxide manufacturing unit at the Memphis TN plant of the DuPont Company's Electrochemicals Department. The finished product is a colorless clear liquid with a slightly pungent odor. It is widely used in bleaching textiles, including cotton, wool, silk, rayon and linen. The first hydrogen peroxide plant to be built in the South, it utilizes a new non electrolytic process developed after six years of research in DuPont laboratories. The Memphis location places the plant close to numerous other textile mills and pulp industries which also use large quantities of hydrogen peroxide for bleaching.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0557
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Leahy's Tourist Court
Date(s): 1935/1950, 1935, 1950
Contributor(s): Curt Teich & Co. (publisher)
Description: On front of card: 'Leahy's Tourist Court - 3070 Summer Ave - Memphis, Tenn.' on back of card: 'Leahy's Tourist Court. 3070 Summer Ave. Memphis, Tenn. U.S. Highways 70 - 64 - 79 Modern Cottages. Owned and Operated by Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Leahy'
Collection ID: Postcards of motels, roadside attractions, restaurants, etc. in the United States (Accession 2007.214)
Hagley ID: 2007214_084
Collection: Postcards of motels, roadside attractions, restaurants, etc. in the United States

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