Programs, badges, tickets, newspaper accounts, etc. of various Du Pont Co. boat rides and other celebrations.

Includes circa 1910-1912 Powder Hollow History by George Bridge; 1924 history of Hazard Powder Co. compiled by Hugo Schlatter and E. L. Prickett, with additional notes dated 1939; undated history of Phoenix Powder Mfg. Co., likely by Richard Stout, Treasurer; and undated "History of Laflin & Rand Powder Company with Photos of some Autographic Letters by Men Prominent in its Affairs and Portraits of some of them, research by E. H. Lambert with" supplement by Hugo Schlatter, typescript.

Includes: report of experiments made at Governor's Island by Brig. Gen. Jacob Morton, 1805; report of Brigadier-General John Newton Upon Removal of Flood Rock, 1885; Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, 1886, The Earth Wave at the Destruction of Flood Rock in Hell Gate, East River, New York, with photographs; Dallas Texas Explosion - Statement of Amounts expended on a/c of above, also A. O. Fay's letter, with additional expenses; Hazard and Du Pont; (note: These magazines struck by lightning and totally destroyed with contents - verbal. O. Fay, 18 May 1891); report on inspection of J. S. Miller Powder Mills, White Haven, Pennsylvania, 1891-1899; Process of Manufacturing powder in the first du Pont mill by William L. Scott, 1918; Black Gunpowder by E. L. Prickett, 1919; Sporting and Military Black Powder by William May, circa 1920; and "Dr. James H. Morgan relates the following interesting account of the Old Conestoga Powder Wagons", 3 copies, undated.