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Title: Nylon yarn plant outside of Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
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 Product Information photographs, Nylon

Title: Seaford, Delaware nylon production plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1173
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Employment through nylon production
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at the Seaford, Delaware plant, shows protective coating of size being applied as yarn passes over rollers saturated with the mixture. Rollers revolve in the trough through which size is pumped. Sizing yarn is an old textile process, but a special...
Show moreAn important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at the Seaford, Delaware plant, shows protective coating of size being applied as yarn passes over rollers saturated with the mixture. Rollers revolve in the trough through which size is pumped. Sizing yarn is an old textile process, but a special solution has to be developed for nylon. It gives protection to tiny filaments during knitting or weaving. After sizing, yarn is stored in a controlled atmosphere for 36 hours to permit the solution to set. Knitters and weavers boil off the solution in the final manufacturing step.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1187
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Nylon yarn plant outside of Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
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_1298
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Seaford, Delaware nylon production plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1177
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Yarn beaming at DuPont's nylon manufacturing plant at Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: In this operation the yarn is transferred from individual pirns to the big beam to enable the fabric maker to handle the yarn more efficiently.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1218
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Storage hoppers containing nylon flake
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Hartman, Jesse E. (photographer)
Description: Storage hoppers containing nylon flake about to be transformed into yarn at the DuPont spinning pants in Seaford, Delaware. Insures adequate mixing and a uniform product.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1212
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Employment through nylon production
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at the Seaford, Delaware plant, shows protective coating of size being applied as yarn passes over rollers saturated with the mixture. Rollers revolve in the trough through which size is pumped. Sizing yarn is an old textile process, but a special...
Show moreAn important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at the Seaford, Delaware plant, shows protective coating of size being applied as yarn passes over rollers saturated with the mixture. Rollers revolve in the trough through which size is pumped. Sizing yarn is an old textile process, but a special solution has to be developed for nylon. It gives protection to tiny filaments during knitting or weaving. After sizing, yarn is stored in a controlled atmosphere for 36 hours to permit the solution to set. Knitters and weavers boil off the solution in the final manufacturing step.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1188
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Nylon Reclamation Unit in the DuPont nylon plant at Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A 40' centrifuge is used to separate crude adipic acid crystals from diamine sulfate and other liquid components from waste nylon.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1164
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Disposing of nylon waste into the hopper of a big hydrolyser
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: An operator dumps a bag of nylon waste into the hopper of a big hydrolyser in which sulfuric acid will start the chemical unraveling of the nylon back to adipic acid and diamine in the new A.D. process unit at the DuPont nylon plant at Seaford, Delaware. An operator dumps a bag of nylon waste into the hopper of a big hydrolyser in which sulfuric acid will start the chemical unraveling of the nylon back to adipic acid and diamine in the new A.D. process unit at the DuPont nylon plant at...
Show moreAn operator dumps a bag of nylon waste into the hopper of a big hydrolyser in which sulfuric acid will start the chemical unraveling of the nylon back to adipic acid and diamine in the new A.D. process unit at the DuPont nylon plant at Seaford, Delaware. An operator dumps a bag of nylon waste into the hopper of a big hydrolyser in which sulfuric acid will start the chemical unraveling of the nylon back to adipic acid and diamine in the new A.D. process unit at the DuPont nylon plant at Seaford, Delaware.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1192
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Seaford, Delaware nylon production plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1174
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Seaford, Delaware nylon production plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1178
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Employment through nylon production
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at the Seaford, Delaware plant, shows protective coating of size being applied as yarn passes over rollers saturated with the mixture. Rollers revolve in the trough through which size is pumped. Sizing yarn is an old textile process, but a special...
Show moreAn important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at the Seaford, Delaware plant, shows protective coating of size being applied as yarn passes over rollers saturated with the mixture. Rollers revolve in the trough through which size is pumped. Sizing yarn is an old textile process, but a special solution has to be developed for nylon. It gives protection to tiny filaments during knitting or weaving. After sizing, yarn is stored in a controlled atmosphere for 36 hours to permit the solution to set. Knitters and weavers boil off the solution in the final manufacturing step.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1182
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Checking nylon yarn for weight
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: Samples of uniform length are taken from bobbins that come from the spinning machines and weighed to check the denier of the yarn, This is one of the steps in the DuPont Company's plants at Seaford, Delaware; Martinsville, Virginia and Chattanooga, Tennessee to insure that nylon yarn is uniform.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1191
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Seaford (Del.)
Date(s): 1926
Contributor(s): Dallin Aerial Surveys (photographer), Dallin, J. Victor (John Victor), 1897-1991 (former owner)
Collection ID: J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)
Hagley ID: 70_200_01288
Collection: Dallin Aerial Survey Company Photographs

Title: Seaford (Del.), facing east
Date(s): 1925
Contributor(s): Dallin Aerial Surveys (photographer), Dallin, J. Victor (John Victor), 1897-1991 (former owner)
Collection ID: J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)
Hagley ID: 70200_01061
Collection: Dallin Aerial Survey Company Photographs

Title: DuPont Nylon Plant at Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1153
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Transporting nylon from the finishing areas to be inspected before shipment
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Hartman, Jesse E. (photographer)
Description: Textile nylon yarn by the trainload speed from the finishing areas to be inspected before shipment from the plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Seaford, Delaware. DuPont plant for heavy denier nylon used in tires and other industrial products is made in Richmond, Virginia.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1219
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Inspecting cakes of Dacron
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: These are wound cakes of DuPont's Dacron polyester fiber just off the spinning machines. Workman is shown inspecting them at the pilot plant at Seaford, Delaware. Dacron is now produced at Kinston, North Carolina and Old Hickory, Tennessee.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1470
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Air conditioning vents at nylon plants
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Many sections of the DuPont Company's nylon yarn plants at Seaford, Delaware; Martinsville, Virginia and Chattanooga, Tennessee are air conditioned. Photo shows the huge vents that keep fresh, clean air in one of the textile areas where nylon yarn is processed and packaged.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1198
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Employment through nylon production
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: An important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at the Seaford, Delaware plant, shows protective coating of size being applied as yarn passes over rollers saturated with the mixture. Rollers revolve in the trough through which size is pumped. Sizing yarn is an old textile process, but a special...
Show moreAn important outgrowth of an industrial development is new employment. Nylon has created, in the DuPont Company alone, more than 7,000 new jobs, many of which are in the sizing operation-a major step in the production of nylon yarn. This photo, at the Seaford, Delaware plant, shows protective coating of size being applied as yarn passes over rollers saturated with the mixture. Rollers revolve in the trough through which size is pumped. Sizing yarn is an old textile process, but a special solution has to be developed for nylon. It gives protection to tiny filaments during knitting or weaving. After sizing, yarn is stored in a controlled atmosphere for 36 hours to permit the solution to set. Knitters and weavers boil off the solution in the final manufacturing step.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1183
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: The Nylon Express at Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1989
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file (Accession 2004.268)
Hagley ID: AVD_2004268_P00001466
Collection: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file

Title: Employee at the DuPont nylon plant in Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1168
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Seaford (Delaware) looking northeast from west of Seaford
Date(s): 1925
Contributor(s): Dallin Aerial Surveys (photographer), Dallin, J. Victor (John Victor), 1897-1991 (former owner)
Collection ID: J. Victor Dallin Aerial Survey collection (Accession 1970.200)
Hagley ID: 1970200_00947
Collection: Dallin Aerial Survey Company Photographs

Title: Sizing or putting a protective coating on nylon yarn in DuPont plant at Seaford, Delaware
Date(s): 1953-06-15
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
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_1180
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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