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Title: Textile printing machine
Date(s): 1936-12
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: A textile printing machine testing dyes for printing made in the plant. Equipment at the Technical Laboratory Dyestuffs Division.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2975
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Ball grinding machine
Date(s): 1936-12
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: A ball grinding machine used for grinding pigments for inks. The pigment is placed in the jar with the stainless steel balls and the jar is then clamped in the machine and revolved for a number of hours to obtain a fine grinding. The ball grinding method is used particularly where a volatile solvent is used which would evaporate in other types of grinding machines. Equipment at the Technical Laboratory, Dyestuffs Division of the DuPont Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2973
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Steel roller ink grinding machine
Date(s): 1936-12
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: A steel roller ink grinding machine grinding pigments for printings inks at the Technical Laboratory, Dyestuffs Division Deepwater Point, New Jersey.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2974
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Distributing ink onto rollers
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Pressman Thomas McElhane distributes ink onto rollers of a flat bed press at DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run, near Wilmington, Delaware. By means of a split roller, two colors can be printed simultaneously. The printing ink section, where pigments are tested in practical application, forms part of the Pigments Department's side of the $5,000,000 installation which is shared with the company's Electrochemicals Department.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2971
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Dry mill for concentration of ilmenite ore
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: In this 'dry mill' at Starke, Florida the ilmenite is concentrated by high voltage electrical and magnetic separators.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2940
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Ilmenite at the Edgemoor pigments plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Ilmenite at the DuPont Edgemoor, Delaware pigments plant. From this is manufactured the modern white pigment-titanium dioxide-that is widely used in better grade white paints. The manufacture of titanium metal also starts with ilmenite.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2936
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Colors Grinding Laboratory
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Colors Grinding Lab in DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. In this section of the $5,000,000 building, modern facilities are available for preparing tailor made pigments for customers in the paint, plastics, paper, ink, floor covering, textile and other fields using pigmented products.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2948
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Panel exposure room tests
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Panel exposure room tests performance of pigments in indoor paints in DuPont's sales service lab at Chestnut Run. Here technician is stalling paint chip which later will be compared with identical control sample and evaluated for performance after exposure used controlled conditions.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2947
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Separation pipes for ilmenite ore
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The spirals, which complete the job of separating ore from sand, form a complicated array of pipes.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2939
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Pigment molecules
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Pigment molecules-Rutile, with more closely packaged atoms, has more hiding power in paint.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2970
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Pigments Department research metallurgist
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Stewart, Willard S., 1915-2003 (photographer)
Description: A Pigments Department research metallurgist at DuPont's Experimental Station is manipulating a water cooled electrode which extends into a vacuum melting chamber. An electric arc between the electrode and the metal charge fuses the contents within the chamber and thus homogenizes the metal and any alloying ingredients incorporated in them.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2950
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Tracking the results of pigments quality tests
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Better goods satisfy customers and build markets. Quality tests during the development of a new pigment are charted above in a laboratory of the DuPont Company. DuPont carries on extensive research, both applied and fundamental.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2951
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Lighting the fire in the calciner
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Richie, Robert Yarnall, photographer (photographer)
Description: Protected by asbestos hat, mask and gloves, an operator lights the fire in a laboratory calciner, or kiln for calcining experimental batches of pigment at the Edge Moor, Delaware pigments plant of the DuPont Company,
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2969
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Distributing ink onto rollers
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Pressman Thomas McElhane distributes ink onto rollers of a flat bed press at DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run, near Wilmington, Delaware. By means of a split roller, two colors can be printed simultaneously. The printing ink section, where pigments are tested in practical application, forms part of the Pigments Department's side of the $5,000,000 installation which is shared with the company's Electrochemicals Department.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2972
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Determining the total surface area of particles
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This complicated physical apparatus at the Experimental Station of DuPont determines the total surface area of particles of finely divided materials. These determinations are important in developing pigment for finishes and other products base on fine powders. Here a laboratory technician examines a sample of a pigment.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2945
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Conducting research on the properties of pigments
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Fundamental research project in properties of pigments conducted by this physical chemist at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station using a linear accelerator. In the experiment, a high vacuum line is used with a volatile compound in contact with pigments. In its fundamental research the chemical company seeks new scientific facts and uses this knowledge to create new products and improve existing products and processes.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2946
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Plant near Starke, Florida, where ilmenite ore is scrubbed and separated
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: On these barges, floating on the lake, near Starke, Florida, ilmenite ore is scrubbed and separated, with the sand being returned to the lake to restore the land level.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2937
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Ti-Pure titanium dioxide
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Image of 'Ti-Pure' titanium dioxide-'The Whitest White from Blackest Black'-the strongest white pigment yet devised. It is derived from coal black ilmenite ore.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2941
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Researching pigments in textiles
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Textile research at DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Here a technical service representative winds pigmented acetate fiber on mirror cards. They are used for color comparison and for sample books. DuPont color pigments are used in solution pigmented acetate, rayon and other man made fibers for light fast coloration.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2949
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Traveling lake near Starke, Florida where ilmenite is mined
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This is the 'traveling lake' near Starke, Florida where ilmenite is being mined by the DuPont Company. The dredge pulls up tons of ore bearing sand which it sends to floating barges by pipes in foreground. Material is scrubbed and separated on the barges then the sand is returned to the lake, restoring the land to approximately its former level.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2938
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: New Johnsonville pigments plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Aerial view of DuPont's pigments plant at new Johnsonville, Tennessee. The 1,500 acre site on Kentucky Lake was acquired in 1952 and the plant was formally opened in September, 1959. Land once covered with brush and scrub is now attractively graded and paved roads and walkways connect tall buildings that contain complex equipment, all connected by a maze of piping. The plant's sole product is titanium dioxide, the whitest white pigment know. It is widely used in the manufacture of pain, paper...
Show moreAerial view of DuPont's pigments plant at new Johnsonville, Tennessee. The 1,500 acre site on Kentucky Lake was acquired in 1952 and the plant was formally opened in September, 1959. Land once covered with brush and scrub is now attractively graded and paved roads and walkways connect tall buildings that contain complex equipment, all connected by a maze of piping. The plant's sole product is titanium dioxide, the whitest white pigment know. It is widely used in the manufacture of pain, paper, plastics and floor coverings.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2953
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Worker bagging titanium dioxide
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Titanium dioxide, the whitest white pigment known, is bagged for shipment from DuPont's pigments plant at New Johnsonville, Tennessee. The plant has capacity of 125 tons of titanium dioxide a day. The pigment is widely used in the manufacture of paint, paper, plastics. floor coverings and other products. The company's other titanium dioxide plant have been expanded to meet growing demand of the pigment.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2942
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Ilmenite, raw material for titanium dioxide
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Ilmenite, a fine black sand, is transformed into the whitest of white pigments at the Edgemoor, Delaware plant of the Pigments Department of DuPont. Through an intricate chemical process, the pile of ilmenite on the left will be transformed into the snow white titanium dioxide on the right. The apparatus is a filter which reduces the water content in the titanium dioxide, which is uses principally by the paint, paper, floor covering, rubber and ink industries.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2935
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Rutile crystals
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Rutile crystals have their titanium (smaller) and oxygen (larger) atoms packaged tightly together. Result: highest possible hiding power in your paints. Atoms of Anatase crystal are more loosely arranged. Result: lower refractive index, lower hiding power.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1222
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Exhibit of the Pigments Department
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The versatility of titanium tetrachloride, the liquid in the large flask, was exemplified by the exhibit of the many products made from it by the Pigments Department, which was shown visitors to the dedication of the $30,000,000 addition to the DuPont Company's Experimental Station. Miss Marlene Gangemi, messenger, left and Miss Shirley Alvarado, librarian, examine a beach cloak treated with 'Erifon' flame retardant. From the compound, derived from the black ore, ilmenite, DuPont makes the...
Show moreThe versatility of titanium tetrachloride, the liquid in the large flask, was exemplified by the exhibit of the many products made from it by the Pigments Department, which was shown visitors to the dedication of the $30,000,000 addition to the DuPont Company's Experimental Station. Miss Marlene Gangemi, messenger, left and Miss Shirley Alvarado, librarian, examine a beach cloak treated with 'Erifon' flame retardant. From the compound, derived from the black ore, ilmenite, DuPont makes the whitest of white pigments for paints; organic compounds which impart fire resistance to paints; 'Erifon'; and titanium metal like the 600 pound ingot. The turbine wheel on the panel at left is made of titanium metal.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3365
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

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