DuPont Company promotional items
Creation: circa 1930-1970Abstract
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. This small collections consists of five DuPont Company promotional items or giveaways, primarily related to Freon products.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1930-1970
Creator
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (Organization)
Extent
5 item(s)
Historical Note
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The company was established in 1802 by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and his son Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834) the company began with the production of gunpowder. The du Pont’s purchased a mill site on the banks of the Brandywine River just North of Wilmington, Delaware. During wartime the company was a major supplier for the United States government. During peacetime, the company marketed their product towards sportsmen and hunters. Throughout the 1900s and 1910s, the company shifted its focus away from gunpowder production and towards chemistry innovations. By 1926 the company officially dissolved the powder production unit, although it had already been inactive for many years.
Scope and Content
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The company was established in 1802 by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and his son Eleuthère Irénée du Pont the company began with the production of gunpowder. This small collections consists of five DuPont Company promotional items or giveaways, including "Freon" lapel pin, pocket circular slide rule with DuPont Freon Products Division logo (with vinyl pocket case and instruction booklet), plastic card with data for DuPont Freon refrigerants on one side and a lenticular moving picture on the other, pocket magnifier with DuPont Freon cleaning agents logo, and trifold men's leather wallet with "Leading DuPont brands high explosives..." embossed on it.
Location
W3-2.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access; this collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- DuPont Company promotional items
- Date:
- 2015
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository