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Title: Ammonia material storage tank farm
Date(s): 1950-07-29
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1308
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Victoria Plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: At this plant near Victoria, Texas, the DuPont produces nylon intermediates, polyethylene and ammonia in open type buildings. The plant was built in 1951 and has expended several times. Its initial product was adiponitrile, a nylon intermediates. The second manufacturing unit, to produce Alathon polyethylene resin, went on stream in 1961. Next came an ammonia manufacturing unit complete in 1963. In 1965, DuPont started building a new plant for the manufacture of adipic acid. In the 15 years...
Show moreAt this plant near Victoria, Texas, the DuPont produces nylon intermediates, polyethylene and ammonia in open type buildings. The plant was built in 1951 and has expended several times. Its initial product was adiponitrile, a nylon intermediates. The second manufacturing unit, to produce Alathon polyethylene resin, went on stream in 1961. Next came an ammonia manufacturing unit complete in 1963. In 1965, DuPont started building a new plant for the manufacture of adipic acid. In the 15 years since DuPont had been in the Victoria area, employment at the plant as risen to well over 600.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1306
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Refining unit
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant was completed in 1951 as part of a five year, $550 million program of plant expansion to provide facilities which were deferred during World War II. Operated by the Polychemicals Department, the plant provides a nylon intermediate in open type manufacturing buildings, such as this refining unit.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1307
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Victoria Plant
Date(s): 1951-10
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Aerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon. Completed under an overall expansion program on which DuPont has spent almost 550 million dollars in the last five years, the Victoria Plant went into production in May, 1951. Meanwhile construction had begun of facilities to double its capacity. The new...
Show moreAerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon. Completed under an overall expansion program on which DuPont has spent almost 550 million dollars in the last five years, the Victoria Plant went into production in May, 1951. Meanwhile construction had begun of facilities to double its capacity. The new unit is expected to start operations late in 1951. The Victoria Plant ships adiponitrile to the company's Sabine River Works near Orange, Texas which in turn supplies nylon intermediates chemicals to DuPont yarn and plastics plants.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1305
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Identifying fish during pollution prevention study on the Guadalupe River
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Fish can be identified by study of top or 'dorsal; fin. Rio Grande perch was one of nine types of fish caught by scientists in one day on river.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3915
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Identifying fish during pollution prevention study on the Guadalupe River
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3916
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Open structure at the Victoria, Texas plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Victoria, Texas plant operated by the Plastics Department of the DuPont Company produces an important intermediate chemical used in making nylon fibers and plastics. The open structure of this processing building is typical of the new look in the architecture of industrial chemistry.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2182
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Victoria, Texas plant control room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The instruments in the control room at DuPont's Victoria Texas plant serve both as a reporter and regulator. A meter, for example, controlling the flow of a liquid sends a report to another device set to the required standard. A third instrument then turns a valve to compensate for any deviation or error. Multiplied a hundred times this is the pattern of the automatic control the operator follows on a central panel.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1316
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Victoria, Texas Plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Open buildings, typical of modern chemical plants, characterize manufacturing units at DuPont's Victoria. Texas plant. This plant, part of a 550 million dollar postwar building program, makes a chemical known as adiponitrile, used in the manufacture of nylon.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1310
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Victoria, Texas plant control room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant has 185 dials and gauges on huge panel board. Just as a living room thermostat controls a heating source in the basement, so this device governs the process, with an operator watching production flow in the safety and comfort of his remote control post.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1317
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Collecting mud during pollution prevention study on the Guadalupe River
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Mud from bottom is collected in dredge, rear, then washed in trays so scientists can study worms and snails living in the stream bed. They show first effects of any pollution. An incinerator and evaporation basins were built and two mile deep wells drilled to carry off unusable by products of Victoria plant operations.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3912
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Studying pollution through insects during pollution prevention study on the Guadalupe River
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Insects caught along the Guadalupe River are studied in temporary laboratory by a zoologist from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science. He uses a 'teaser' to mount a large dragonfly. The Guadalupe study represents one of many efforts by DuPont to insure disposal of trade wastes without pollution of streams or air.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3917
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Analytical team that conducted pollution prevention study on the Guadalupe River
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Scientific team that made the study of Guadalupe River for DuPont brought a station wagon full of analytical equipment. Five men, working under Dr. Ruth Patrick, spent 10 days in Texas, completed their study later in a Philadelphia laboratory.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3911
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Studying pollution on the Guadalupe River
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Before the Victoria, Texas plant of DuPont's Plastics Department was put into operation, arrangements were made for scientists of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to make a study of the Guadalupe River on which the plant is located. The objective was to determine the state of health of the river and this assist in planning a pollution prevention program for the plant. The DuPont Company has spent approximately $40,000,000 on a continuing program to prevent water and air pollution.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3910
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Adiponitrile area at DuPont's Victoria plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Adiponitrile area at DuPont's Victoria plant, ten miles south of Victoria, Texas. Butadiene and natural gas are among the raw materials used in the plant in making adiponitrile, a chemical employed at an early stage of nylon manufacture. This plant s operated by the company's Plastics Department.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1312
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Victoria, Texas Plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2181
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Collection diatoms during pollution prevention study on the Guadalupe River
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Spoonfuls of micro-organisms called 'diatoms' are collected from stumps and stones along river bank. They provide food for fish.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3914
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Determining river flow during pollution prevention study on the Guadalupe River
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: River's flow is determined by meter that sounds 'ping' in scientist's ear as tiny cups revolve. The scientists collected hundreds of species of fish, clams, insects, snails and plants living in and along the Guadalupe River.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3913
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Distillation columns
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Distillation columns soar gracefully into condensers at the DuPont Company's plant, ten miles from Victoria, Texas. A large investment in units such as these is characteristic of the chemical industry. Only by keeping facilities up to date can a company meet its competition, increase output and lower costs. At this plant petroleum raw materials, principally natural gas and butadiene are used in making a chemical which eventually becomes nylon plastic and yarn at other DuPont plants.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1309
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Victoria, Texas Plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1315
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Victoria, Texas Plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these. The plant makes adiponitrile from butadiene, a petroleum product. The plant's entire output is shipped to the company's big Sabine River plant, which carries the product further along in the processes that lead to nylon plastics.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1311
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Twenty Fifth Anniversary: Victoria, Texas
Date(s): 1975
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor), Radebaugh, William H. (director), Radebaugh, William H. (producer), Radebaugh, William H. (screenwriter), Paine, William (narrator), Arden Films, Inc. (production company)
Description: DuPont Victoria plant in Victoria, Texas. The video describes the history of plant and introduces various employees. The video then shows the products made at the plant: Nylon intermediates (ADN, HMD, Adipic acid, NRD-17 (DDDA)), polyethylene (LDPE, HDPE), and neoprene intermediate (CD). Life at the plant is depicted as well as what many employees do in their free time.
Collection ID: William Henry Radebaugh films and scripts (Accession 1975.412)
Hagley ID: FILM_1975412_FC11
Collection: William Henry Radebaugh films

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