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Title: Caustic soda and bleach
Date(s): 1876
Contributor(s): Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (associated name)
Collection ID: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection (Accession 2003.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_2003_255_03_B_26B_01
Collection: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection

Title: Interview with Mary Braden Jackson, 1989 January 19 [audio]
Date(s): 1989-01-19
Contributor(s): Jackson, Mary Braden (interviewee), Julian, Martha (interviewer), Hanrahan, Maureen (interviewer)
Description: Jackson's fifth and final interview details the laundry process, how her mother made clothes, and her relationship with her stepmother.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_9613_jackson_part8
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Mary Braden Jackson, 1989 January 19 [transcript]
Date(s): 1989-01-19
Contributor(s): Jackson, Mary Braden (interviewee), Julian, Martha (interviewer), Hanrahan, Maureen (interviewer)
Description: Transcript of fifth and final interview with Mary Jackson who remembers details about her youth along the Brandywine. The interview took place in Newark, Delaware.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interview transcripts on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 2026)
Hagley ID: 2026_061713_11
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Soapine
Date(s): 1900
Contributor(s): Fingerman, Arlene (collector), Fingerman, Gerald (collector)
Description: Advertising card for Soapine soap manufactured by the Kendall Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode Island. Illustration shows a woman hanging laundry on a clothesline; items on line spell out \"Soapine.\"
Collection ID: Fingerman ephemera collection (Accession 2009.213)
Hagley ID: 2009213_383
Collection: Fingerman collection of ephemera

Title: Shoe White, Laundry Crystals, Powdered Cleaner page from the Color Plate Catalog
Date(s): 1924
Contributor(s): Avon Products, Inc. (originator)
Description: Page showing household and cleaning items sold by CPC
Collection ID: Avon Products, Inc. records (Accession 2155)
Hagley ID: CPCHouseholdProducts_1924
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Amazing facts about cleanliness and health : the discovery of modern detergents and how they are revolutionizing the habits of mankind
Date(s): 1960
Contributor(s): Monsanto Company (originator), Monsanto Chemical Company Monsanto Chemical Works (associated name)
Description: Advertising and educational giveaway (cover price 10 cents) comic book for All, a Monsanto brand of laundry detergent.
Collection ID: Trade catalogs and pamphlets (Pam 2017.1124)
Hagley ID: PAM_20171124
Collection: Promotional comic books gallery

Title: Synthetic detergent processed through flaker rolls
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Description: Within the last few years, the chemist has developed a new kind of soap. Starting with ordinary vegetable and animal oils, the chemist now makes fatty alcohols which, in combination with sulfuric acid and other chemicals gives a new class of compounds known fatty alcohol sulfates. Although chemically quite different from ordinary soap certain of the fatty alcohol sulfates are the best detergents know. That is, they are similar to ordinary soap in cleansing properties but are better in that...
Show moreWithin the last few years, the chemist has developed a new kind of soap. Starting with ordinary vegetable and animal oils, the chemist now makes fatty alcohols which, in combination with sulfuric acid and other chemicals gives a new class of compounds known fatty alcohol sulfates. Although chemically quite different from ordinary soap certain of the fatty alcohol sulfates are the best detergents know. That is, they are similar to ordinary soap in cleansing properties but are better in that they work just as well in hard water as in soft water. Even with briny ocean water they form billows of foaming suds. Nor do they injure the most delicate fabric or tender skin. Because of their compatibility with hard water, these new soapless soaps are now finding wide application. This photographs shows a scene of what is known as a Gardinol flaker at the Deepwater Point New Jersey plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. The final step in manufacturing this synthetic detergent is processing through flaker rolls such as these.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0635
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: This is the way we wash our hands
Date(s): 1944
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: To make a test of the new salt water soap developed for the Army say Louise Feldman left, and Frances Montgomery, chemists in the DuPont Technical Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey. Miss Montgomery, using the new soap khaki colored for camouflage, got the heavy fuel oil off her hand quicker and more easily that Miss Feldman who used ordinary soap. Secret of the new soap's success is a special synthetic detergent, know n only as MP-646, developed by DuPont chemists. Both the laboratory...
Show moreTo make a test of the new salt water soap developed for the Army say Louise Feldman left, and Frances Montgomery, chemists in the DuPont Technical Laboratory at Deepwater Point, New Jersey. Miss Montgomery, using the new soap khaki colored for camouflage, got the heavy fuel oil off her hand quicker and more easily that Miss Feldman who used ordinary soap. Secret of the new soap's success is a special synthetic detergent, know n only as MP-646, developed by DuPont chemists. Both the laboratory basins contain salt water, often the only kid available to soldiers for bathing and laundry in some theaters of war.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0638
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Suds with synthetic detergents
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The cylinder on the left contains hard water (0.04% or calcium chloride) to which a small amount of one of the new soapless soaps based on fatty alcohol sulfates has been added. Note the foamy suds extending all the way to the top of the cylinder. To the water in the cylinder on the right has been added an equal amount of ordinary soap. Note that the water has a milky appearance due to the formation of insoluble, sticky lime soaps, and that there are practically no suds.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0637
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Suds with synthetic detergents
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Synthetic detergent, left, produces billowy suds in hard water, while soap, right, forms insoluble curds. DuPont introduced the synthetics in America in 1933. Now the Organic Chemicals Department produces a number of synthetic detergents and other surface-action agents which find wide application in the textile industry.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0636
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Mary Belin du Pont recipe book, circa 1870s-1900s
Date(s): 1880
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Mary A. (Belin), 1839-1913 (originator)
Description: The book consists of a carbon copy of a typed transcript from Mary Belin du Pont's (1839-1913) recipe book. They are typical of the dishes enjoyed by middle class Americans in the Northeast in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Some recipes appear to have been taken from newspaper columns that were originally clipped by Mary Belin's mother, Isabella. In addition to dishes such as calves' foot jelly, flannel cakes, potato pudding, ginger beer, turtle soup, johnny cake, jumbles, flummery,...
Show moreThe book consists of a carbon copy of a typed transcript from Mary Belin du Pont's (1839-1913) recipe book. They are typical of the dishes enjoyed by middle class Americans in the Northeast in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Some recipes appear to have been taken from newspaper columns that were originally clipped by Mary Belin's mother, Isabella. In addition to dishes such as calves' foot jelly, flannel cakes, potato pudding, ginger beer, turtle soup, johnny cake, jumbles, flummery, potted shad and blanc mange, there are a variety of home remedies, household hints on washing and cleaning, and how to prepare paints and dyes.
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Collection ID: Mary Belin du Pont recipe book (Accession 2458)
Hagley ID: MSS_2458_001
Collection: Mary Belin du Pont recipe book

Title: Procter & Gamble Company - Comet label designs, narrative and slides
Date(s): 1980, 1988
Contributor(s): Koons, Irvin L., 1922-2021 (associated name), Procter & Gamble Company (associated name)
Collection ID: Irvin Koons photographs (Accession 1996.315)
Hagley ID: AVD_1996315_02_050
Collection: Irv Koons collections

Title: Procter & Gamble Company - Comet label designs
Date(s): 1985
Contributor(s): Koons, Irvin L., 1922-2021 (associated name), Procter & Gamble Company (associated name)
Collection ID: Irvin Koons photographs (Accession 1996.315)
Hagley ID: AVD_1996315_16_036
Collection: Irv Koons collections

Title: Borax, the Magic Crystal
Date(s): 1913
Creator: Pacific Coast Borax Company
Description: This little booklet tells the story of a magic mineral, which when placed in the water used in the laundry, kitchen and bath, becomes an invisible giant, working wonders for the brightening of the home and the lessening of household labor.' Color illustrations of 'The Borax Girl' on front cover and window display of '20 Mule Team Borax' on back cover.
Collection ID: Gerald A. and Arlene L. Fingerman Fabric Care Memorabilia Collection (Pam 2010.372 )
Hagley ID: MagicCrystal
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Truth About A Lye
Date(s): 1925
Creator: Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company
Description: Promotes the uses for Lewis' lye, with summaries presented in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Polish, and Swedish. Includes index.
Collection ID: Gerald A. and Arlene L. Fingerman Fabric Care Memorabilia Collection (Pam 2010.376 )
Hagley ID: TruthAboutALye
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Du Pont sodium CMC (sodium carboxymethyl cellulose) : an aid for improving detergent properties of synthetic detergents and soaps, Technical service bulletin
Date(s): 1948
Creator: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Explosives Department
Hagley ID: 08024556_tsb_1948
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Soapine Did It!, Kendall M'f'g' Co's Soapine : the dirt killer will not injure hands or fabric., Soapine : the dirt killer will not injure hands or fabric
Date(s): 1899
Contributor(s): Kendall Manufacturing Company (issuing body)
Collection ID: Litchfield Collection on the History of Fatty Materials (Call Number Pam 2008.559)
Hagley ID: 2270372
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Astonish cleaning products, undated
Date(s): 1975
Contributor(s): Harrison, Marc, 1936-1998 (former owner)
Collection ID: Marc Harrison photograph collection (Accession 2005.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_2005255_01_020_001
Collection: Marc Harrison papers and photographs