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William Parrott account ledger

 Collection
Accession: 1526
Abstract:

William Parrott (1885-1971) was a partner of William Parrott Sons, dock builders. The account ledger covers 1911 to 1926, with index, and also includes five accounts of accidents.

Dates: 1911-1926

William Porter Allen papers

 Collection
Accession: 1832
Abstract:

William P. Allen (1881-1941) worked at the DuPont Company as vice president and director as well as general manager of the Cellulose Products and Paint, Lacquer & Chemicals Department. The papers document his work from 1928 to 1930, including meeting minutes, merger papers, and employee relations.

Dates: 1928-1930

William Sellers & Co. records

 Collection
Accession: 1466
Abstract:

William Sellers & Co. was an iron works that manufactured machine tools used for turning, planing, shaping, drilling, boring, or cutting metal or wood. The company was founded in 1848 as Bancroft & Sellers by mechanical engineers and inventors Edward Bancroft (1811-1855) and William Sellers (1824-1905). The records consist of five volumes, as well as correspondence from William Sellers and the Sellers firm.

Dates: 1827-1947

William Shinn and Company, Inc., records

 Collection
Accession: 1856
Abstract:

The William Shinn & Co. installed stamped sheetmetal ceilings, cornices, skylights, roofing, and ductwork and employed about a dozen workers and apprentices. It was founded in 1907 in Wilmington, Delaware by William Shinn (1883-1947), a tinsmith and cornice worker, and his brother John A. Shinn (1886-1955). The records are a very small sample of accounting items documenting the operation of a handicraft contracting business.

Dates: 1907-1942

William W. Morris miscellany

 Collection
Accession: 2516
Abstract:

William W. Morris (1869-1931) was a farmer in Greenwood, Sussex County, Delaware. This is a collection of miscellaneous bills, checks, and receipts that was preserved primarily as a sample of late nineteenth century letterheads and billheads, although it also documents the typical purchases of a downstate Delaware farmer.

Dates: 1878-1906; Majority of material found within 1890-1906

William Young family miscellany

 Collection
Accession: 0483
Abstract:

William Young (1755-1829) was a Philadelphia bookseller and later a manufacturer at Rockland, Delaware. Miscellaneous papers including genealogical and biographical information, letter, and paper samples produced by Young.

Dates: 1792, undated

William Young letter of introduction

 Collection
Accession: 1291
Abstract:

William Young (1755-1829) was a Philadelphia bookseller and later a manufacturer at Rockland, Delaware. This item is a photocopy of letter of introduction from William Young to Charles and Victor du Pont for Frederick Rapp.

Dates: 1828

William Young miscellany

 Collection
Accession: 0855
Abstract:

William Young (1755-1829) was a Philadelphia bookseller and later a manufacturer at Rockland, Delaware. Letters to Young regarding paper business, two ship bill of lading, and two legal documents on paper produced by Young.

Dates: 1798-1828

Willis F. Harrington engineer's notebook

 Collection
Accession: 2440
Abstract:

Engineer's notebook kept by future DuPont Company vice president Willis F. Harrington (1882-1960) while an entry-level engineer at the Barksdale Works in Wisconsin.

Dates: 1905-1907

Wilmington leather workers union miscellany

 Collection
Accession: 0981
Abstract:

The International Fur and Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada was a labor union that represented workers in the fur and leather trades. This small collection of union items relating to the International Fur and Leather Workers Union, Local #201 of Wilmington, Delaware.

Dates: 1940-1957

Wilmington Savings Fund Society (WSFS) records

 Collection
Accession: 1155
Abstract:

The Wilmington Savings Fund Society was established in 1831 as a "safe depository for the earnings of working people" which also promoted the opportunity for homebuilding and lending money for home mortgages. Their records consist primarily of minutes and account books.

Dates: 1831-1964

Wilmington Trapshooting Association records

 Collection
Accession: 2552
Abstract:

The Wilmington Trapshooting Association was organized in November 1916 with William Highfield (1884-1943) as President, C. Thorpe Martin (1880-1955) as Vice President, E.R. Galvin (dates unknown) as Secretary. The records include minutes, financial ledgers, handbooks, rulebooks, and membership lists.

Dates: 1911-1983

Wilmington Trust Company records

 Collection
Accession: 2118
Abstract:

The Wilmington Trust Company is a financial institution that was started as a banking, trust, and safe deposit company for the du Pont family and other Delaware wealthy families. It is now a subsidiary of M & T Bank. The records contain some information on the workings of the Trust Department, but are more useful for the information they contain on the individual companies in which the department invested. It includes account reviews, responsibility reviews, and security reviews, but is largely investment analysis files, by company.

Dates: 1909-1958; Majority of material found within 1931-1954

Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR), Pennsylvania Division records

 Collection
Accession: 2271
Abstract:

The Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR) National Committee investigated the increase in drunkenness and effect of Prohibition, operated a publicity campaign, created a speakers' bureau, spoke at legislative hearings, and enrolled members. This collection of the Pennsylvania division records consists of the Executive Committee minutes, administrative files, financial records, and membership records.

Dates: 1930-1934

Wood-Randolph family papers

 Collection
Accession: 2445
Abstract:

The Wood family was founders of one of Philadelphia's great Quaker mercantile and manufacturing families, and within a couple of generations founded the Wawa Dairy Farms. The papers were primarily collected by Julianna Randolph (1810-1885), wife of Richard D. Wood (1799-1869), and include correspondence from Julianna Randolph, her parents Edward (1784-1834) and Mary Taylor Randolph (1790-1868), and her husband Richard Wood. The letters are almost entirely limited to correspondence within the Wood-Randolph kinship group.

Dates: 1797-1884

Woodbrook and Sharpely development files

 Collection
Accession: 2588
Abstract:

The Woodlawn Trustees Inc., a major landowner in suburban Wilmington, Delaware, began developing Woodbrook and Sharpley neighborhoods in the mid-1950s. This collection illustrates the process of creating suburban residential subdivision in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Dates: 1952-2009

Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records

 Collection
Accession: 2424
Abstract:

The Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). Their records include charters, minutes, officer lists, directors' correspondence, real estate records, property maps, reports, drawings and specifications and newspaper and journal articles on the history of the Trustees and of the Bancroft family.

Dates: 1722-2013; Majority of material found within 1901-2005

WorldAutoSteel records

 Collection
Accession: 2747
Abstract:

WorldAutoSteel is an institutional membership organization comprised of eighteen major global steel producers dedicated to innovative vehicle steel application technologies that are environmentally sustainable and meet the automotive industry's needs. This collection consists of records that document a series of projects conducted by WorldAutoSteel, a unit of the World Steel Association. The files come from WorldAutoSteel headquarters, primarily from Edward Opbroek, who was the director of WorldAutoSteel from 2006 to 2011 and the program director for UltraLight Steel Auto Body (ULSAB) and UltraLight Steel Auto Body - Advanced Vehicle Concepts (ULSAB-AVC). These records would be of value to researchers interested in the intersection of the steel and automobile industries, automotive benchmarking, innovations in steel design and engineering, and communications strategies.

Dates: 1964-2013; Majority of material found within 1994-2002

Worth Steel Company records

 Collection
Accession: 1529
Abstract:

The Worth Steel Company was a manufacturer of steel plates in Claymont, Delaware. Its records consist of papers from its operations and from its predecessor companies (Viaduct Iron Works and Worth Brothers Company, both of Coatesville, Pennsylvania). Items include correspondence, accounts, datasheets, agreements, closing papers in sale to Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation in 1951, and the sale of land in 1958.

Dates: 1863-1951

Wright family papers

 Collection
Accession: 1665
Abstract:

Samuel Gardiner Wright (1781-1845) was a West Jersey Quaker merchant and ironmaster who conducted a wide-ranging mercantile business based in Philadelphia, iron furnaces in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and in southern Delaware and maintained a country house and farm in Monmouth County, N.J. The papers document his varied business interests, especially iron manufacture and sales. There are smaller quantities of papers from his wife, sons and grandson.

Dates: 1785-1902, bulk 1809-1876

Wright family papers

 Collection
Accession: 2575
Abstract:

Papers of four generations of the Wright family of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, particularly of Samuel G. Wright (1781-1845), Philadelphia merchant and general entrepreneur, and his son, Harrison Gardiner Wright (1810-1885), a gentleman farmer.

Dates: 1805-1887

Wurts family papers

 Collection
Accession: 1982
Abstract:

The Wurts family were involved in the anthracite coal industry. In 1823 four brothers: Maurice Wurts (1783-1854), William Wurts (1788-1858), Charles Stewart Wurts (1790–1859), and John Wurts (1792-1861) founded the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company originally to mine anthracite coal and transport the resource to New York. The company built the Delaware and Hudson Canal and later became the Delaware and Hudson Railway. The Wurts family papers were collected by John Sparhawk Wurts (1876-1958) and reflect both family papers and business records.

Dates: 1699-1964

W.W. Laird miscellany

 Collection
Accession: 2555
Abstract:

William Winder ‘Chick” Laird, Jr. (1910-1989) was a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and a financial advisor, starting his own brokerage firm in Wilmington, Delaware. He was the son of William Winder Laird (1878-1927) and Mary Alletta Belin DuPont Laird (1878–1938). He had four siblings. His mother was great granddaughter of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont (1771-1834), founder of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. His father, William Winder Laird (1878-1927) was actively involved in the DuPont Company as well as an advisor to his brother in law, Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954). This is small collection of various items belonging to W. W. Laird Sr. and W.W.'Chick' Laird, Jr.

Dates: 1915-1985

Wyomissing Development Company records

 Collection
Accession: 1905
Abstract:

The Wyomissing Development Company was a housing development firm for the employees of a manufacturer of knitting machinery, the Textile Machine Works. Both companies were incorporated by Henry Janssen (1866-1948) and Ferdinand Thun (1866-1948). The collection contains two minute books which document the organization of the Wyomissing Development Company, the acquisition of land for the company town and other public facilities including stores, parks, playgrounds, schools, and hospitals.

Dates: 1913-1934

Young, McAllister, and Warner family papers

 Collection
Accession: 0427
Abstract:

The Young and McAllister families were prominent families in the Associate Presbyterian community in Philadelphia. William Young (1755-1829) was a Philadelphia bookseller and later a manufacturer at Rockland, Delaware. John McAllister Jr. (1786-1877) ran the Philadelphia optical firm of that same name. This small collection of papers relate to the Young, McAllister, and Warner families. Approximately half of the material are correspondence from John Young, William Young, John McAllister Jr., and Joseph T. Warner; the other half are miscellaneous documents related to the families and businesses they were involved with including Rockland Manufacturing Company and McAllister Spectacle Company.

Dates: 1794-1871

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Du Pont family 181
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Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817 49
Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865 30
Pennsylvania Railroad 23
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Du Pont, Sophie Madeleine, 1810-1888 19
Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 17
RCA Corporation 17
Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon), 1838-1926 16
Du Pont de Nemours, Francoise Robin Poivre, 1748-1841 15
United States. Navy 15
Savery, Thomas H., 1837-1910 13
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station 12
Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 11
Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co 11
Pusey and Jones Company 11
Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 10
Du Pont, Francis Gurney, 1850-1904 9
Du Pont, Henry, 1812-1889 9
Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.) 9
Pusey & Jones Corporation 9
Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937 8
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Textile Fibers Department 8
Unknown 8
Crowninshield, Louise du Pont, 1877-1958 7
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Organic Chemicals Department 7
Gilpin, Joshua, 1765-1841 7
Jackson Laboratory (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company) 7
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co 7
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 7
Bethlehem Steel Corporation 6
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Grasselli Chemicals Department 6
General Electric Company 6
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 6
Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 6
Manhattan Project (U.S.) 6
Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927 6
National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) 6
Young, William, 1755-1829 6
Amtrak 5
Baldwin Locomotive Works 5
Bauduy, Peter, 1769-1833 5
Bauduy, Victorine du Pont, 1792-1861 5
Du Pont, Alfred Victor, 1798-1856 5
Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930 5
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Central Research and Development Department 5
Hanford Engineer Works 5
International Business Machines Corporation 5
Lukens Steel Company 5
Penn Central Transportation Company 5
Radio Corporation of America 5
Smith, Eleuthera du Pont, 1806-1876 5
Sperry Rand (Corporation). Univac Division 5
Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 5
Thayer, Horace H., 1878-1959 5
University of Delaware 5
Bradford, Phoebe George, 1794-1840 4
Brandywine Manufacturers Sunday School 4
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 4
Central Railroad of New Jersey 4
DeMirjian, Charles H., 1925-2021 4
Du Pont, Bauduy & Company 4
Du Pont, Irénée, 1876-1963 4
Du Pont, Jean Kane Foulke, 1891-1985 4
Du Pont, Margaretta Lammot, 1807-1898 4
Du pont, Sophie Dalmas, 1775-1828 4
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Brandywine Works 4
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Development Department 4
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Engineering Department 4
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Executive Committee 4
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Explosives Department 4
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Pioneering Research Laboratory 4
Eddystone Manufacturing Company 4
General Motors Corporation 4
Hagley Museum and Library 4
Krider, John 4
Laird, W. W. (William Winder), 1910-1989 4
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4
May, Sophie du Pont, 1900-2001 4
Reading Company 4
Savery, William H., 1865-1949 4
Singer Manufacturing Company 4
Victor Talking Machine Company 4
William Sellers & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 4
American Iron and Steel Institute 3
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 3
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 3
Baughman, James P. 3
Bell Telephone Laboratories 3
Bethlehem Steel Company 3
Bidermann, Evelina du Pont, 1796-1863 3
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 3
Budd Company 3
Christiana Hundred (Del.) 3
Copeland, Lammot du Pont, 1905-1983 3
Curtis Paper Company 3
David Sarnoff Library 3
Du Pont de Nemours, Pere et Fils & Cie 3
Du Pont, Alexis I. (Alexis Irénée), 1843-1904 3
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