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Title: America's Factories, 1899-1937
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): Stewart, Maxwell S. (Maxwell Slutz), 1900-1990 (author), Fabricant, Solomon, 1906- (associated name), National Bureau of Economic Research (associated name)
Collection ID: Trade catalogs and pamphlets (PAM)
Hagley ID: PAM_055_08022877
Collection: Public Affairs Committee pamphlets

Title: The new Sparton Equasonne, "Face to Face" with Sparton's greatest year
Date(s): 1929~, 1929
Contributor(s): Sparks-Withington Company (originator)
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277)
Hagley ID: Sparton-Equasonne
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics

Title: National Conference on Capital Investment and Employment (May 1975)
Date(s): 1975-05-19
Contributor(s): National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (originator), Seligson, Stanley (photographer), Brophy, Theodore F. (depicted), Seidman, Lewis William, 1921-2009 (depicted), Sprague, Edward A. (depicted), Hilton New York (Hotel) (event place)
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: 1973418_015_01_021
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers

Title: Philco Corporation 1960 Annual Report
Date(s): 1960
Contributor(s): Philco Corporation (originator)
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277)
Hagley ID: philco-1960-annual
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics

Title: Interview with Fred Zeller, 1984 June 26 [audio]
Date(s): 1984-06-26
Contributor(s): Zeller, Fred (interviewee)
Description: Zeuner describes the daily life of those living in Wilmington in the first half of the twentieth century, including where people shopped, swimming and skating on the Brandywine, typical dress, and normal pay and working conditions in the millwright shop.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_73113_Zeller
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Journal, v. 12, no. 11
Date(s): 1932-05, 1932-05
Contributor(s): Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (originator)
Description: Includes PSFS Building advertisement on p. 18.
Collection ID: Philadelphia Saving Fund Society records (Accession 2062)
Hagley ID: 20100223_168
Collection: PSFS Building

Title: Americade Exposition (1956)
Date(s): 1956
Contributor(s): National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (originator)
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: 1973418_015_08_013
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers

Title: National Conference on Capital Investment and Employment (May 1975)
Date(s): 1975-05-19
Contributor(s): National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (originator), Seligson, Stanley (photographer), Sherrill, H. Virgil, 1920-2010 (depicted), Long, Russell B. (depicted), Meeker, David (depicted), Morrison, Clinton, 1915- (associated name), Hilton New York (Hotel) (event place)
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: 1973418_015_01_018
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers

Title: Philco Corporation Sixty-Eighth Annual Report 1959
Date(s): 1959
Contributor(s): Philco Corporation (originator)
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277)
Hagley ID: philco-1959-annual
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics

Title: Interview with Harold W. Hocker, 1975 June 24-25 [audio]
Date(s): 1975-06-24, 1975-06-25
Contributor(s): Hocker, Harold W. (interviewee), Edmonson, James (interviewer)
Description: Hocker describes the creation of the H.W. Hocker Manufacturing Company, including how the company handled the Great Depression, the development of brush manufacturing and the trajectory of the company, and other products that they produced, including bottle caps and aluminum cans. He also touches on the equipment used, ordering materials for the process, and learning how to make brushes. He discusses the fear of spreading anthrax in the import of bristles, waste in the brush process, and...
Show moreHocker describes the creation of the H.W. Hocker Manufacturing Company, including how the company handled the Great Depression, the development of brush manufacturing and the trajectory of the company, and other products that they produced, including bottle caps and aluminum cans. He also touches on the equipment used, ordering materials for the process, and learning how to make brushes. He discusses the fear of spreading anthrax in the import of bristles, waste in the brush process, and attempting to use synthetic materials. He also describes the machines used as well as other tools of the trade. Hocker talks about publishing trade catalogs and the standardization of brush-making. Finally, he describes the conception of the idea and the typical brush market.
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Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_91713_hocker
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: National Conference on Capital Investment and Employment (May 1975)
Date(s): 1975-05-19
Contributor(s): National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (originator), Seligson, Stanley (photographer), Sherrill, H. Virgil, 1920-2010 (depicted), Long, Russell B. (depicted), Meeker, David (depicted), Hilton New York (Hotel) (event place)
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: 1973418_015_01_019
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers

Title: National Conference on Capital Investment and Employment (May 1975)
Date(s): 1975-05-19
Contributor(s): National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (originator), Seligson, Stanley (photographer), Long, Russell B. (depicted), Meeker, David (depicted), Hilton New York (Hotel) (event place)
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: 1973418_015_01_020
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers

Title: Dazzy a wrong number in anyone's book; Phyllis Coe
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): Philco Corporation (originator), Boyle, Pete, 1903-1967 (artist)
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277), Philco News
Hagley ID: AVDJOPN2014_phil-coe-pete-boyle
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics

Title: Appliance Park: Where the World’s Finest Major Appliances are Made
Date(s): 1952
Contributor(s): General Electric Company (Sponsor)
Description: Film promoting General Electric's new Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Details how appliances such as washing machines, ranges, water heaters, and dishwashers are developed and constructed in the five buildings at the park. Also highlights the various employee and community perks provided by General Electric, including a fire department, security staff, cafeterias, and medical dispensaries.
Collection ID: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018222_FC255
Collection: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection

Title: Images
Date(s): 1970
Description: Film detailing the true "corporate character" of Eaton (referred to as Eaton, Yale & Towne) and how the company is looking to expand and promote its public image.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC286
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Eaton Today
Date(s): 1979
Contributor(s): Eaton Corporation (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company)
Description: Promotional film for the Eaton Corporation. Describes the various ways that Eaton helps the automotive and industrial industries around the world. Eaton is a vital force as a manufacturer, research-oriented industrial producer, and good corporate citizen. "Anticipating change...making it happen."
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC031
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: A Good Part of Your Life
Date(s): 1980
Contributor(s): National Screw Machine Products Association (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company)
Description: Promotional film for the screw machine products industry. Details how the industry's precision products help to drive, control, support, connect, and fasten the machines used in transportation, agriculture, construction, aerospace, and medicine. Also highlights the various vocational opportunities available at screw machine companies, including product design, machine operation, sales, and more.
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC408
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Challenge of Changing Times
Date(s): 1975
Description: Film promoting Alside, Inc. as an ideal partner for home siding sales personnel. Alside manufactures 1500 different types of home siding products and provides a variety of tools, such as table top displays, pitch books, sample cases, and audio-visual presentations, to help a salesperson close the deal with a customer. Includes a statement by Alside founder Jerome J. Kaufman.
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC409
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Rowland Shovel Works
Date(s): 1913
Contributor(s): Whitaker, William, 1813-1878 (associated name)
Collection ID: Whitaker family photographs (Accession 1982.253)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_253_023
Collection: Whitaker family photographs

Title: Machine Design: The Year One
Date(s): 1979
Contributor(s): Penton Education Division (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Contributor), Griswold-Eshleman Co. (Production company), Nimoy, Leonard (Narrator)
Description: Actor Leonard Nimoy narrates this film celebrating the 50th anniversary of Machine Design, a trade magazine focusing on industrial design and engineering in the United States. Explores the changes and developments in American industrial history from 1929 to 1979 and describes how Machine Design became the "preferred information source" for design engineers.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC396
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Last Wheel Works: The Industrial Archaeology of a Wood Wheel Manufactory
Date(s): 1975
Contributor(s): Smithsonian Institution (Producer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (Producer)
Description: A film record of the manufacturing process employed by Hoopes Brothers & Darlington, a wooden wheel producer located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Details each step required to fashion a 16-spoke carriage wheel from law lumber. Directed by Peter H. Smith and Robert M. Vogel. Written by Pierce Atkins. Filmed by Albert J. Robinson and Frank T. Herzog. Post Production by John W. Hiller and Karen Loveland. Technical support by Robert A. Howard, John D. Milner, Julia F. Davis, and Don Berkebile....
Show moreA film record of the manufacturing process employed by Hoopes Brothers & Darlington, a wooden wheel producer located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Details each step required to fashion a 16-spoke carriage wheel from law lumber. Directed by Peter H. Smith and Robert M. Vogel. Written by Pierce Atkins. Filmed by Albert J. Robinson and Frank T. Herzog. Post Production by John W. Hiller and Karen Loveland. Technical support by Robert A. Howard, John D. Milner, Julia F. Davis, and Don Berkebile. With financial support from the Raymond John Wean Foundation.
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Collection ID: Hoopes Brothers & Darlington Inc. "The Last Wheel Works" documentary film and photographs (Accession 1969.063)
Hagley ID: FILM_1969063_FC02
Collection: Film and Video

Title: Dazzy a wrong number in anyone's book; Phyllis Coe
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): Philco Corporation (originator), Boyle, Pete, 1903-1967 (artist)
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277), Philco News
Hagley ID: AVDJOPN2014_phylis-coe-pete-boyle
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics

Title: Cover the Earth
Date(s): 1966
Contributor(s): Sherwin-Williams Company (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Sughrue, John J. (Director), Culley, Ray, 1904-1983 (Producer), Horrocks, Harry (Cinematographer), Siedel, Frank (Screenwriter), Van Bellingham, L. G. (Leon George), 1925-2006 (Production personnel)
Description: Film celebrating 100 years of the Sherwin-Williams Company. Commences with a detailed overview of the company's history, beginning with its founding in 1866 by Henry Alden Sherwin in Cleveland, Ohio. Describes how Sherwin-Williams grew from a small operation to an industrial giant, and explores how it manufactures its various paint products. This version includes a prologue hosted by some of the company's leaders, including Arthur W. Steudel, Chariman of the Board; H.D. Lester, Vice President...
Show moreFilm celebrating 100 years of the Sherwin-Williams Company. Commences with a detailed overview of the company's history, beginning with its founding in 1866 by Henry Alden Sherwin in Cleveland, Ohio. Describes how Sherwin-Williams grew from a small operation to an industrial giant, and explores how it manufactures its various paint products. This version includes a prologue hosted by some of the company's leaders, including Arthur W. Steudel, Chariman of the Board; H.D. Lester, Vice President and Treasurer; Robert H. Hill, Vice President and Director of Sales; E. Colin Baldwin, President; Arthur B. Holden, Director of Research; Robert F. Hennig, Vice President and Director of Purchases; William C. Fine, Secretary; Sidney Ling, Vice President and Director of International Operations; Solloce B. Coolidge, Vice President and Director of Auxiliaries; John S. Prescott, Executive Vice President and Director of Manufacturing.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC106
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Cleveland World Port
Date(s): 1959
Contributor(s): Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Siedel, Frank (Screenwriter), Welchans, Robert (Director)
Description: Film promoting the city of Cleveland, Ohio and its growing status as a global industrial and cultural hub. Begins with footage of the first ship to use the new St. Lawrence Seaway, the Dutch cargo freighter Prins Willem III, arriving to the city. Follows with a detailed examination of the various industries in which Cleveland supports, including steel, construction, and chemical, and how the city's location and labor force make it an excellent location for new plants and businesses. The film...
Show moreFilm promoting the city of Cleveland, Ohio and its growing status as a global industrial and cultural hub. Begins with footage of the first ship to use the new St. Lawrence Seaway, the Dutch cargo freighter Prins Willem III, arriving to the city. Follows with a detailed examination of the various industries in which Cleveland supports, including steel, construction, and chemical, and how the city's location and labor force make it an excellent location for new plants and businesses. The film also promotes Cleveland's educational system, cultural institutions, and leisure opportunities.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC144
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Wilmington, Delaware : its productive industries and commercial and maritime advantages
Date(s): 1888
Contributor(s): Clement, A. J. (author), Delaware Printing Company (printer)
Hagley ID: PC_F174_W7_C62
Collection: Hagley Library Published Collections

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