DuPont Company Explosives Department game bird and hunting dog prints
Creation: 1917-1951Abstract
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. E.I. du Pont de Nemours' Explosives Manufacturing Department was created in May 1917 by the merger of the Black Powder Operating Department and the High Explosives Operating Department. This collection consists primarily of prints published by the DuPont Company's Sporting Powder Division and Explosives Department between 1917 and 1951.
Dates
- Creation: 1917-1951
Creator
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Sporting Powder Division (Organization)
- Hunt, Lynn Bogue, 1878-1960 (Artist, Person)
- Dick, John A., 1879-1972 (Photographer, Person)
Extent
68 item(s)
Physical Description
31 prints ; color, offset lithographs ; 12 x 15 in. 30 prints : color, letterpress halftones ; 13 x 14.5 in. 6 prints : b&w and color, multiple processes ; 8 x 13 in. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 13 x 16 in.
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. E.I. du Pont de Nemours' Explosives Manufacturing Department was created in May 1917 by the merger of the Black Powder Operating Department and the High Explosives Operating Department; from the latter, it inherited its own research laboratory, Eastern Laboratory, at Gibbstown, New Jersey, established in 1905. The Explosives Manufacturing Department was renamed the Explosives Department as part of the 1921 reorganization, creating autonomous industrial departments. It absorbed the Smokeless Powder Department in 1936. By the 1970s, the DuPont Company had virtually gone out of the explosives business, and in 1971, the Explosives Department became part of the Polymer Intermediates Department.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of prints published by the DuPont Company's Sporting Powder Division and Explosives Department between 1917 and 1951. This includes one complete set (eighteen prints) of the first edition of "Our American Game Birds" published in 1917 and sold for $2.00, one incomplete set (twelve prints) of the second edition of "Our American Game Birds" published in or after 1917 and sold for $5.00, one set of six prints illustrating two men hunting birds using DuPont powders, and thirty-one prints showing champion hunting dogs, originally issued with DuPont Explosives Department calendars for the years 1938 through 1951 (no calendar sheets were received with this collection). The collection also includes one group portrait photograph showing the members of DuPont's Explosives Department, Military Explosives Division from 1940 to 1944.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access, this collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- DuPont Company Explosives Department game bird and hunting dog prints
- Author:
- Judy Stevenson
- Date:
- 2015
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2023: Laurie Sather
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository
