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Title: For Ever and Ever production materials
Date(s): 1944
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Producer), Institute of Makers of Explosives (sponsor), Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: Includes scripts for three motion picture productions, "For Ever and Ever", "Tommy's Temptation", and "The One-Legged P-48" intended to teach young children to avoid playing with blasting caps. Includes correspondence between Ray Culley and Reed Drummond from Fuller, Smith, & Ross, Inc. and a memorandum that lists information about blasting caps. The included report contains data about children injured from blasting caps in 1944. The flyer and poster are both informational depictions showing...
Show moreIncludes scripts for three motion picture productions, "For Ever and Ever", "Tommy's Temptation", and "The One-Legged P-48" intended to teach young children to avoid playing with blasting caps. Includes correspondence between Ray Culley and Reed Drummond from Fuller, Smith, & Ross, Inc. and a memorandum that lists information about blasting caps. The included report contains data about children injured from blasting caps in 1944. The flyer and poster are both informational depictions showing why blasting caps should not be played with by children.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_10_02
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Surrendering their matches as a safety precaution
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Safety precautions at the Repauno, New Jersey explosives plant of the DuPont Company include the requirement that workers surrender all matches upon entering the gates.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0875
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Safe remote control operation
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: First panel board in company was established on a powder line to permit sage remote control operation. Here an operator starts up a mill. To insure maximum safety, DuPont's Belin Works is made up of several dozen small and independent buildings, each housing a distinct phase of the operation.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0670
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Insulated copper wires as a safety measure
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: As a safety measure, insulated copper wire is used to secure nuts on machinery used in making explosives at DuPont plants.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0881
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Workers' safety at explosives plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Strict limits on the number of workers permitted in each building are enforced in the interests of safety at explosives plant of the DuPont Company. Wooden buttressing shown is likewise installed for added safety.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0876
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Safety signs at DuPont plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Display of the many different safety signs used at a single DuPont plant is a striking symbol of the company's prime concern for the safety of its employees. Signs are but one phase of a comprehensive company-wide program in which employees are instructed in safe practices, equipped with protective devices of all types and taught to think and act safely at all times. Accident prevention has become so much a part of the company's operations that a DuPont employee is ten times more likely to be...
Show moreDisplay of the many different safety signs used at a single DuPont plant is a striking symbol of the company's prime concern for the safety of its employees. Signs are but one phase of a comprehensive company-wide program in which employees are instructed in safe practices, equipped with protective devices of all types and taught to think and act safely at all times. Accident prevention has become so much a part of the company's operations that a DuPont employee is ten times more likely to be injured off the job as on; even when handling high explosives or dangerous chemicals, he is safer at work than at home.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0874
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Escape chutes at the Repauno, New Jersey explosives plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Escape chutes provide emergency exits down which workers may slide standing up at the Repauno, New Jersey explosives plant of the DuPont Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0877
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Washing clothing at explosives plants as safety measure
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: All clothing is washed daily at explosives plants of the DuPont Company to safeguard against powder contamination.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0879
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Health check of worker at DuPont dynamite plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Health of workers on DuPont dynamite plants is safeguarded by medical tests given them twice a month by plant nurses, supervised by physicians.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0880
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Explosive Workers' coveralls for added safety
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Explosive workers' coveralls for added safety are made with cloth covered or rubber buttons to prevent the hazards of metal to metal contact which might discharge a spark.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0878
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Safe handling of explosives at Repauno, New Jersey plant
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: For safety in handling dynamite, wooden machinery and tools even to the shovel, must be used. Here an operator is filling a powder jitney with the explosives in the mix house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0693
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Filling a powder jitney with explosives in the mix house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant
Date(s): 1927
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: For safety in handling dynamite, wooden machinery and tools even to the shovel, must be used. Here an operator is filling a powder jitney with the explosives in the mix house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0684
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs