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Title: Atlantic & Pacific Machine Co., North East, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1876
Contributor(s): Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (associated name), Atlantic & Pacific Machine Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection (Accession 2003.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_2003_255_01_010
Collection: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection

Title: A titanium ingot being drawn from furnace prior to forging and rolling
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Titanium metal can be worked by standard equipment. Here a hot titanium ingot is being withdrawn from furnace prior to forging and rolling.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3363
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: 9,000 ton hydraulic forging press
Date(s): 1905
Contributor(s): Midvale Steel Company (originator)
Collection ID: Midvale Steel Company plant album (Accession 1974.362)
Hagley ID: AVD_1974362_003
Collection: Midvale Steel Company plant album

Title: Mountain water unit at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Water flows 40,000 gallons a minute in this Mountain Unit to supply the raw water needs and to operate the closed tube scrubbing process for purifying gases in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Company's Belle, WV Works. Water loaded with impurities picked up from the gases in the scrubbing process is pumped to the hilltop, a rise of 700 feet, is there aerated and then descends by gravity, circulating through a system of 36 inch mains, 2000 feet long. Coal is the...
Show moreWater flows 40,000 gallons a minute in this Mountain Unit to supply the raw water needs and to operate the closed tube scrubbing process for purifying gases in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Company's Belle, WV Works. Water loaded with impurities picked up from the gases in the scrubbing process is pumped to the hilltop, a rise of 700 feet, is there aerated and then descends by gravity, circulating through a system of 36 inch mains, 2000 feet long. Coal is the main raw materials used at Belle. Air and water are two others. Ammonia and the alcohols are in turn the raw materials for a wide variety of products made at belle and by other industrial producers. These include nylon intermediates from which nylon for textiles and plastics are produced; urea, for fertilizers, cattle feeds, medicinals, adhesives and plastics; nitric acid ; formaldehyde; ethylene glycol; methyl methacrylates for Lucite acrylic resin plastics; Mycoban mold inhibitor; and many others.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0476
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Cutting machine and pneumatic equipment for handling cut staple for rayon
Date(s): 1920/1929, 1920, 1929
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Cutting machine and pneumatic equipment for handling cut staple in the manufacture of Acele acetate rayon staple at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1081
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Crude methyl methacrylate polymer ready to go into the dryers
Date(s): 1938-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: Crude methyl methacrylate polymer, the base for Lucite plastic manufactured by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, ready to go into the dryers. The picture was taken at the Company's Belle, West Virginia plant.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2415
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Mechanical drive for crimper and feed aprons
Date(s): 1951-06-15
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: 'Photographed June 15, 1951. Built April-June 1951. Showing parts of the mechanical drive built for the crimper and feed aprons. Notice the two narrow feed belts. Notice horizontal [illegible], trap doors. Wet processing units must be built vertical for reasonablly even wetting. New assignment #318. William D. Hay'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_046
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Butter making at Wawa Dairy Farms
Date(s): 1910~, 1910
Contributor(s): Wawa, Inc. (originator)
Description: Butter mold visible.
Collection ID: Wawa, Inc. historical photographs (Accession 1992.214)
Hagley ID: 92214_101
Collection: Wawa, Inc. Public Relations photographs and audiovisual materials

Title: Man operating horse-drawn harrow
Date(s): 1900/1920?, 1900, 1920
Contributor(s): Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (photographer)
Collection ID: Frank E. Schoonover negatives (Accession 2017.239)
Hagley ID: 2017239_09_150
Collection: Frank E. Schoonover negatives

Title: Pinion shaft detail of Rice, Barton & Fales textile printing machine
Date(s): 1937-08-27
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: 'August 27, 1937. To: F. Bromley: I am enclosing a print showing a method Rice, Barton and Fales have of supporting the pinion shaft, in order to get the print machines closer together. By this method they claim they are able to get 10 print machines in the space formerly occupied by 7. #5311. R.'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_083
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Line of machinery in Rockford bloom room
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_097
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Separator at Wawa Dairy Farms
Date(s): 1925~, 1925
Contributor(s): Wawa, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Wawa, Inc. historical photographs (Accession 1992.214)
Hagley ID: 92214_104
Collection: Wawa, Inc. Public Relations photographs and audiovisual materials

Title: Front side of open-hearth plant No.3
Date(s): 1905
Contributor(s): Midvale Steel Company (originator)
Collection ID: Midvale Steel Company plant album (Accession 1974.362)
Hagley ID: AVD_1974362_007
Collection: Midvale Steel Company plant album

Title: Sketches for designs of Cockshutt tractors
Date(s): 1958
Creator: Raymond Loewy Associates
Contributor(s): Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 (designer)
Collection ID: Raymond Loewy collection of photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2004.255)
Hagley ID: 2004255_0118
Collection: Raymond Loewy Collections

Title: Battery of coke ovens at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1920/1929, 1920, 1929
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Battery of coke ovens used at the Belle WV plant of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0365
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Mill interior at Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1918
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_191
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: The John Morton Poole Company: A Preliminary Report for Industrial Archeology
Date(s): 1970
Contributor(s): Comp, T. Allan (author)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645)
Hagley ID: MS1645_010
Collection: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports

Title: Sketches for designs for Cockshutt tractors
Date(s): 1958
Creator: Raymond Loewy Associates
Contributor(s): Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 (designer)
Collection ID: Raymond Loewy collection of photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2004.255)
Hagley ID: 2004255_0119
Collection: Raymond Loewy Collections

Title: Machinery in Rockford bloom room
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_096
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Bottle filler and cooler machinery at Wawa Dairy Farms
Date(s): 1902/1920, 1902, 1920
Contributor(s): Wawa, Inc. (originator)
Description: The stamp mark on the back of the picture reads 'Compliments of /Walter R. Cuthbert/ Licensed and Bonded Investigator/ Specialist in Finding
Collection ID: Wawa, Inc. historical photographs (Accession 1992.214)
Hagley ID: 92214_095
Collection: Wawa, Inc. Public Relations photographs and audiovisual materials

Title: Tire-turning shop
Date(s): 1905
Contributor(s): Midvale Steel Company (originator)
Collection ID: Midvale Steel Company plant album (Accession 1974.362)
Hagley ID: AVD_1974362_034
Collection: Midvale Steel Company plant album

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: A technician adjusts extrusion equipment
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A technician at DuPont's pipe manufacturing plant at Tulsa, Oklahoma adjusts extrusion equipment as it produces endless footage of Delrin acetal resin pipe for ultimate use by the oil and gas industry. The two inch diameter light weight, corrosive resistant pipe being extruded will be cut into 20 foot length for ease of handling and shipment but can be rejoined easily through a heat fusion technique.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2398
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Engine #9
Date(s): 1893-03-20
Contributor(s): Maryland Steel Company of Baltimore County (originator), Bethlehem Steel Company (associated name), Pennsylvania Steel Company (associated name)
Collection ID: Maryland Steel Co. photograph album (Accession 2008.224)
Hagley ID: AVD_2008224_03_056
Collection: Maryland Steel Co. photograph album

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 Product Information photographs

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