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Delaware State Tax Department, Delaware School Auxiliary Association and School Foundation records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1123
Abstract:
Miscellaneous records including information about educational facilities in Delaware.
Dates:
1917-1935
Delaware Trapshooting miscellany
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2551
Abstract:
Documents related to the Delaware State Trapshooting Championship, held at various locations throughout state, mainly Wilmington Trapshooting Association in Newark, Delaware and Silver Lake Sportsman's Association in Magnolia, Delaware. Also included are programs from the Grand American Trapshooting Tournament.
Dates:
1973-2012
Delmarva area flour and feed mills photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1989-269
Abstract:
Orlando Wootten (1909-1997) was the photographer for the Salisbury (Maryland) Daily Times and Wicomico Historical Society. Collection consists of documentary views of three flour and feeds mills from the Delmarva area
Dates:
1964-1975
Delmarva Power and Light Company photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1994-237
Abstract:
Delaware Power & Light Company had its beginnings in the 1880s as a number of small power companies sprang up to provide electric service to the Delmarva Peninsula. These 1926 images document the construction of gas towers and substations at the Christiana and Brandywine power plants in the Wilmington, Delaware.
Dates:
1926
"Design Concepts: Water Storage" booklet
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2745
Abstract:
A booklet produced by the American Iron and Steel Institute's Committee of Steel Plate Producers in the 1960s to illustrate imaginative and attractive designs in constructing community water-storage structures with steel.
Dates:
circa 1965
Directors of Industrial Research records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1851
Abstract:
The Directors of Industrial Research (D.I.R.) is a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on topics of mutual interest for directors of America's foremost industrial research laboratories, formed in 1923. The records of the Directors of Industrial Research are an important collection, primarily because of their documentation of the development of industrial research. These records provide ample opportunity for the study of a powerful elite of corporate researchers, and a close-up view of certain aspects of the relationship between science and big business in the twentieth century.
Dates:
1929-1982
Disposor Corporation album
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2013-258
Abstract:
The Disposor Corporation was the sales agent for the General Fan Corporation of New York City in the 1930s. This collection consists of fourteen photographs of the General Fan Corporation's various mechanical products (ventilation and cooling units) on display at exhibits or installed in businesses, including a ship and restaurants. The album was put together by the Disposor Corporation for sales purposes.
Dates:
circa 1930s
Dodge Brothers March sheet music
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1993-247
Abstract:
Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was a composer, conductor and cellist. This item is sheet music of the Dodge Brothers March which was composed in honor of Horace E. Dodge (1868-1920).
Dates:
1920
Domenico Mortellito papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2122
Abstract:
Domenico Mortellito (1906-1994) was a designer, muralist, and sculptor noted for working in plastics and other synthetic materials. The majority of the materials in this small collection deal with the design and execution of the DuPont Pavilion at the second New York World's Fair in 1964-1965, including correspondence, studies, drawings, and photos of the take-apart model of the original design.
Dates:
1950-1979
Don von Schritz collection of matchbook covers
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2016-207
Abstract:
A match cover or a matchbook cover is a thin piece of cardboard that is folded around a set of match sticks. Chemist, John Walker (1781-1859) invented the match stick in 1827. Joshua Pusey (1842-1906?), an inventor and attorney patented matchbook covers in 1892. Within a short time hotels, restaurants, airlines, and all kinds of stores began advertising using matchbook covers. This is a small collection of matchbook covers consists advertising hotels, restaurants, banks, elections, products, and organizations. Most of the matchbook covers are from Texas and New Mexico with a few coming from other states.
Dates:
circa 1950s
Donald F. Carpenter papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2159
Abstract:
Donald Fell Carpenter (1899-1985) was general manager of the Film Department at the DuPont Company. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in engineering in 1922. Between 1927 and 1933 he held increasingly important managerial positions with the DuPont Viscoloid Company, and between 1933 and 1948 with the Remington Arms Company. In 1947 to 1948 he was a member of the Industrial Advisory Group to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Broadly speaking, the materials in this small collection of his papers cover Carpenter's entire career, from his senior thesis at MIT (the design for an addition to his father's tinsmithing shop) to his involvement with political and civic affairs during his retirement.
Dates:
1922-1984
Donald F. Carpenter photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2003-203
Abstract:
Donald Fell Carpenter (1899-1985) was General Manager of the Film Department at the DuPont Company. The collection consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and a few letters relating to Donald Carpenter's personal life and career.
Dates:
circa 1920-1968
Donald R. Hull papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2137
Abstract:
Donald Robert Hull (1911-1995) was a longtime employee at the DuPont Company mainly working with nylon and textile fibers. The collection pertains to his work at DuPont and Hull's consulting firm, Fiber Concepts, Inc.
Dates:
1941-1995
Donald R. Hull photograph collection
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1996-307
Abstract:
Donald Robert Hull (1911-1995) was a longtime employee at the DuPont Company mainly working with nylon and textile fibers. The collection consists of four scrapbook albums of material from Donald Hull's career with the Du Pont Company.
Dates:
1934-1978
Donaldson Brown papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1334
Abstract:
Donaldson Brown (1885-1965) was an industrialist and business executive with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and the General Motors Corporation. These papers relate to Brown's association with GM, and reflect his concern with financial policy, organization and operation, and employee relations. They are especially concerned with the period of World War II. Files from the 1920s and 1930s describe Brown's effort to relate pricing policies to financial control.
Dates:
1921-1966
du Pont Bradford family photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2010-228
Abstract:
Edward G. Bradford, II (1848-1928) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. He married Eleuthera Paulina du Pont in 1872. This collection consists of photographs of the du Pont family and estate, as well as numerous postcards.
Dates:
1828-1948
Du Pont de Nemours correspondence (photocopies)
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 0591
Abstract:
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was a French political economist, writer, publisher, and public administrator. He was an advocate for a national educational system and promoted Franco-American trade relations. Francoise (Robin) Poivre du Pont was his second wife. His grandson, Samuel Francis du Pont (1803-1865) was an Admiral in the United States Navy and fought in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. This collection consists of twenty-three photocopied letters, primarily from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), but also Francoise du Pont de Nemours (1748-1831) and Samuel Francis du Pont (1803-1865). The correspondence is primarily to Marie Anne Lavoisier Thompson (1758-1836), a French chemist and close friend of the family.
Dates:
1788-1818; undated
Du Pont family miscellany
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2587
Abstract:
This small collection of du Pont family miscellany came to Hagley from Winterthur as an assortment of various family items that did not relate to their individual library holdings. The items, though extremely fragmentary, represent over two centuries of du Pont family history.
Dates:
1824-circa 1980
du Pont family photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1969-043
Abstract:
Alexis I. du Pont (1816-1857) was proprieter of his family business, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, which began in the manufacture of gunpowder in 1802. He was the youngest child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834), the founder of the DuPont Company. This collection contains thirteen photographic items, mostly portraits of Alexis I. du Pont and other du Pont family members.
Dates:
1871-1925, undated
Du Pont Motors, Inc. Moore factory photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1994-254
Abstract:
DuPont Motors, Inc. was a manufacturing company of luxury automobiles, founded by E. Paul du Pont (1887-1950) in 1919 in Wilmington, Delaware. These photographs show exterior views of the vacant DuPont Motors factory in Moore, Pennsylvania, where briefly (1922-1925) DuPont automobiles were assembled.
Dates:
1994
Du Pont Motors photographic reproductions
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1979-285
Abstract:
DuPont Motors, Inc. was a manufacturing company of luxury automobiles, founded by E. Paul du Pont (1887-1950) in 1919 in Wilmington, Delaware. This collection consists of thirty-eight photographs primarily showing the exteriors of DuPont Motor’s Models A, B, D, and G.
Dates:
1919-1930
DuPont Allied Business Firms records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: LMSS-VI
Abstract:
This collection includes the papers of Du Pont, Bauduy & Company (1803-1815); Du Planty, McCall & Company (1813-1837); Brandywine Mill Seat Company (1798-1854); A. Cardon & Company (1824-1833); and Rockland Manufacturing Company (1825-1856).
Dates:
1798-1856
DuPont American Industries employees meeting photograph
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1969-149
Abstract:
DuPont American Industries was formed in 1918 as a holding of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in order to purchase a substantial portion of General Motors and Chevrolet stock. This item is a portrait of a large group of male employees of DuPont American Industries.
Dates:
1918 June 19
DuPont Chamber Works New Ponsol Colors Building construction panorama
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2010-275
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The Chamber Works was constructed as a dyeworks at Deepwater Point, New Jersey in 1914. This item is a panoramic photograph shows the New Ponsol Colors Building under construction at DuPont's Chambers Works in Deepwater, New Jersey on July 13, 1936.
Dates:
1936
DuPont (China), Inc. records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2362
Abstract:
DuPont (China), Inc. was a firm established to manage the exports of dyestuffs manufactured in China by the DuPont Company's Organic Chemicals Department. The collection consists of materials from DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department in China and a group of reports and notebooks describing the beginnings of DuPont's dyestuffs ventures in East Asia.
Dates:
1921-1951; Majority of material found within 1941-1950
DuPont Co., Carney's Point parade float photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1969-008
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The DuPont Company's Carney's Point plant began manufacturing guncotton and smokeless powder in 1892. Francis “Frank” Pierre Gentieu (1876-1950) was a ballistic Engineer at Carney's Point from 1901 to 1941. On October 10 1925, a military, civic and industry party parade concluded a three-day celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Salem, New Jersey. This collection features two photographs of the DuPont Smokeless Powder Works float entered in the 250th Anniversary parade in Salem, New Jersey.
Dates:
1925
DuPont Company advertisements and film
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2014-201
Abstract :
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company. Originally established as a black powder manufactory in 1802 by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and his son Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834). Throughout the 1900s and 1910s, the company shifted its focus away from gunpowder production and towards chemistry innovations. This collection consists of five large poster boards which created displays of original magazine advertisements of various DuPont Company products such as Smokeless gunpowder, DUCO, Pyralin, synthetic fibers, Conoco oil, lucite, anti-freeze, cellophane and carpet fibers. This collection also contains one film.
Dates:
1907-1996
DuPont Company Advertising Department collection of graphic materials
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1996-291
Abstract:
The Advertising Department representatives in each of the industrial departments worked with the central staff in creating ad campaigns.The collection consists of miscellaneous Du Pont Company advertising materials, including postcards, pictorial envelopes, lantern slides, advertisements, display cards, and illustrated pamphlets.
Dates:
circa 1910-1970
DuPont Company Atlantic City exhibit photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1973-278
Abstract:
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 and began with the production of gunpowder. Throughout the 1900s and 1910s, the company shifted its focus away from gunpowder production and towards chemistry innovations. This collection contains twenty photographs of DuPont Company exhibits and exhibit areas in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, as well as exterior views in the vicinity of the Hall and views of the boardwalk at North Carolina Avenue. Chalfonte-Haddon Hall was a hotel and convention center that had its start as two Quaker boarding houses built in the 1860s.
Dates:
1948-1954
DuPont Company Atomic Energy Division, Savannah River Plant photographs and films
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1989-335
Abstract:
The Savannah River Plant manufactured basic materials required in the production of nuclear weapons, specifically plutonium and tritium. The complex was comprised of five reactors, two chemical separation plants, a heavy water extraction plant, a nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility, a tritium extraction facility and waste management facilities. Additionally, the site included research laboratories, offices, worker housing, and other ancillary facilities. This collection contains photographs, glass plate negatives, lantern slides, negatives, transparencies and 16mm films that document the construction and development of the Savannah River Plant complex between 1951 and 1982, with a bulk of the materials created between 1951 and 1972. The collection is organized into seven series: Construction and progress; Technical photographs; Project photographs; Voorhees Walker Foley & Smith architectural renderings; Speeches and presentation lantern slides; Transparencies; and Films.
Dates:
1951-1984; Majority of material found within 1951-1972
DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2017-226
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was established in 1802 by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and his son Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834). This collection of more than 1250 discrete photographs depicts the landscape and buildings at or near the company's explosives manufacturing plants along Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware. Approximately 900 images depict powder yard sites, including the DuPont Experimental Station, either during the mills' final decades of operation or prior to, during, and after excavation and restoration work on the site in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of the remaining images depict the worker communities which surrounded the powder yards.
Dates:
1820-1970; Majority of material found within 1890-1960
DuPont Company circa 1804 Eagle gunpowder label reproduction
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1993-202
Abstract:
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 item consists of two printed pieces: a Happy New Year 1993 greeting from Coley (P. Coleman) and Jake (James Coleman) du Pont and a reproduction of an Eagle gun powder label circa 1804.
Dates:
1993
DuPont Company display photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1998-260
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. Defender Photo Supply, an early leader in the manufacturing of black and white sheet film, plates, printing paper and instructional books, was purchased by the DuPont Company in 1945. The DuPont Imaging Systems Plant, in Rochester, New York, manufactured photographic film and chemicals and ceased operations in 1995. This collection contains four display photographic prints made on DuPont Defender photographic paper. The views are all scenic and also included is an aerial photograph of the Rochester, New York plant of the DuPont Company's Photo Products Department.
Dates:
circa 1947
DuPont Company Engineering Department, Louivers Office photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2012-228
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company, established in 1802. DuPont's Louviers office building, located near Newark, Delaware, was occupied by DuPont's Engineering Department beginning around the late 1950s. This collection consists mostly of photographs of DuPont's Louviers office building. There are some photographs showing the Engineering Department's move to the Louviers building in the late 1950s or early 1960s
Dates:
circa 1940-1990
DuPont Company Engineering Department photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1982-300
Abstract:
The E.I. du Pont de Nemours is a chemical company commonly known as the DuPont Company was established in 1802, and began by manufacturing gunpowder and later chemical compounds. The foundations for the Engineering Department were laid in 1902. The department’s purpose was to design and construct high explosives plants, design powder machinery and create extensions to existing plants. The DuPont Engineering Department collection consists of photographic material documenting Twentieth century construction projects throughout the many different E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company work sites, including some outside construction projects within the explosives and chemical industry. There are 209 work sites which are arranged in alphabetical order.
Dates:
1903-1987; Majority of material found within 1903-1945
DuPont Company Executive Committee records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2091
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont Company. The Executive Committee became the principal body for coordinating the work of the various departments of the rapidly growing company, establishing company organizational structure and policy; approving capital expenditures and contracts; and fixing salary levels, bonuses, and other compensation. The files are arranged in six series. The "E" files are primarily service record information on members of the Executive Committee, giving some prior history of the person's career with DuPont. The "D" files are limited to organization charts, dating from 1914 to 1917. The "O" files (Operative Committee), "F" files (Finance Committee), and "X" files (Executive Committee) are primarily related to patents and licensing. Finally, materials copied by David A. Hounshell and John K. Smith for their book, Science and Corporate Strategy, are included.
Dates:
1903-1991; Majority of material found within 1950-1982
DuPont Company executives portraits
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2010-205
Abstract:
The DuPont executive team holds top-line responsibility for driving DuPont’s vision and ensuring that its core values are upheld across the company.This collection consists of individual portraits of DuPont Company executives. It also includes group portraits of the Executive Committee, Finance Committee, and Board of Directors.
Dates:
1919-1996
DuPont Company exhibits photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1971-mss-876
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont Company. This collection consists of images of the DuPont Company’s show windows between 1937 and 1957. The images are primarily of displays at the Wilmington, Delaware site, but also at other locations such as Atlantic City, New Jersey, New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Canada.
Dates:
1937-1957
DuPont Company Experimental Station memoranda and reports
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2565
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was established in 1802 by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) and his son Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834). In 1903, the DuPont Company's Executive Committee established the Experimental Station, a research facility located on the banks of the Brandywine River across from DuPont's first black powder works. This small collection of materials from the Experimental Station relates to the buildings, conducting of research, and to submission of reports.
Dates:
1929-1946
DuPont Company Experimental Station organizational charts
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2474
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont Company. The DuPont Experimental Station is a large industrial research facility founded in 1903; it is focused on chemistry research. This small collection consists of organizational charts arranged chronologically, dating between 1942 and 1982.
Dates:
1942-1982
DuPont Company films and commercials
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1995-300
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company, commonly referred to as the DuPont Company which was established in 1802. Today, the DuPont Company typically introduces more than 2,000 products and patent applications each year. This large collection of moving images documents the research, development, training, safety measures, products, and promotional aspects of DuPont Company history. The moving images include commercials, short films, feature films, and television programs.
Dates:
circa 1910-1999, bulk 1950-1989
DuPont Company gunpowder advertisement
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2006-233
Abstract:
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 Éleuthère Irénée du Pont the company began with the production of gunpowder. This item is an 1851 advertisement for DuPont gunpowders, including Eagle gunpowder, gunpowder for ordnance, and gunpowder for blasting and shipping.
Dates:
1851
DuPont Company gunpowder advertisement
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2011-327
Abstract:
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 Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834) the company began with the production of gunpowder. This item is an 1851 advertisement for DuPont gunpowders, including Eagle gunpowder, gunpowder for ordnance, and gunpowder for blasting and shipping.
Dates:
1851
DuPont Company gunpowder advertising envelopes
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1995-296
Abstract:
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 Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834) the company began with the production of gunpowder. This small collection consists of eight letter-size gunpowder advertising envelopes, including Peters cartridges, DuPont smokeless powder, Laflin & Rand, and Hazard Powder Company.
Dates:
1902
DuPont Company gunpowder calendar
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1998-251
Abstract:
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 Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834) the company began with the production of gunpowder. This item is a 1901 advertising calendar with an illustration showing a hunter crossing a hillside with two dogs.
Dates:
1900
DuPont Company Hypalon synthetic rubber photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2012-226
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company, established in 1802. Hypalon is a chlorosulfonated polyethylene and was the second artificial rubber synthesized by DuPont after Neoprene. This collection consists of nine photographs relating to Hypalon synthetic rubber, produced by the DuPont Company at its Beaumont, Texas production facility.
Dates:
1953-1989
DuPont Company industrial safety calendars
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2000-216
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont Company. This collection consists of six safety calendars issued by the DuPont Company. The illustrators who created these calendars--Stanley Massey Arthurs (1877-1950), Clyde Osmer DeLand (1872-1947), Gayle Porter Hoskins (1887-1962), and Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972)--were all artists who studied under Howard Pyle (1853-1911) at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dates:
1932; 1937-1939; 1941-1942
DuPont Company Moberly Plant photographs and ephemera
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2010-233
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company. The Moberly Plant was an automotive finishes plant in Moberly Missouri from 1968 through 1990. The plant manufactured topcoat paints used to repair or refurinsh vehicles. This collection consists of materials related to the former DuPont Company site in Moberly, Missouri, 1968-1990. Materials include newsletters, guides to the plant, a magazine, a yearbook, certificates, photographs, slides, and negatives.
Dates:
1968-1990
DuPont Company Museum collection
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1968-001
Abstract:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company, which began as a manufacturer of gunpowder in 1802. The collection consists of photographs and prints that document the early history of the DuPont Company’s involvement in the gunpowder and explosives industries from the 1860s through the 1920s. The bulk of the collection are photographs of employees, executives, and plant views, including aftermaths of explosions and construction. This collection also includes a variety of advertisements for the DuPont Company as well as other non-DuPont related trades. A large portion of this collection are oversize materials (panoramic photographs and advertising posters).
Dates:
1885-1952
DuPont Company photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2006-237
Abstract:
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 for the production of black powder. This collection includes publicity photographs from the DuPont Company, many relating to nylon and its uses in World War II. Other subjects include company executives, employees, and stock holders; various factories and facilities; general World War II production awards; high explosives workers; and hunting.
Dates:
circa 1920-1970
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- Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817 24
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station 22
- RCA Corporation 18
- United States. Navy 16
- Dick, John A., 1879-1972 14
- New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.) 14
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) 12
- Savery, Thomas H., 1837-1910 12
- World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 10
- Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937 9
- Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 9
- Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 9
- Eleutherian Mills (Greenville, Del. : Estate) 9
- Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 9
- Jackson Laboratory (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company) 9
- Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 9
- Pusey and Jones Company 9
- Baldwin Locomotive Works 8
- Bethlehem Steel Corporation 8
- Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 8
- Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co 8
- Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.) 8
- Pusey & Jones Corporation 8
- Reading Company 8
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Chestnut Run Laboratories 7
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Organic Chemicals Department 7
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Pioneering Research Laboratory 7
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Textile Fibers Department 7
- Gentieu, Pierre A., 1842-1930 7
- Gilpin, Joshua, 1765-1841 7
- Hagley Museum and Library 7
- Hanford Engineer Works 7
- Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co 7
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 7
- Amtrak 6
- Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 6
- Crowninshield, Louise du Pont, 1877-1958 6
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Carney's Point Works 6
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Central Research and Development Department 6
- General Electric Company 6
- International Business Machines Corporation 6
- Lea family 6
- Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 6
- Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927 6
- Radio Corporation of America 6
- Victor Talking Machine Company 6
- Young, William, 1755-1829 6
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 5
- Brandywine Manufacturers Sunday School 5
- Budd Company 5
- DeMirjian, Charles H., 1925- 5
- Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935 5
- Du Pont, Irénée, 1876-1963 5
- Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 5
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Brandywine Works 5
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Hagley Yard 5
- General Motors Corporation 5
- Hagley Museum and Library. Library. Oral History Project Office 5
- Hercules Powder Company 5
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 5
- Manhattan Project (U.S.) 5
- National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) 5
- Penn Central Transportation Company 5
- Ramsay, William G. (William Gouverneur), 1866 - 1916 5
- Remington Arms Company 5
- University of Delaware 5
- All American Engineering Company 4
- American Car and Foundry Company 4
- American Iron and Steel Institute 4
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company 4
- Bethlehem Steel Company 4
- Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 4
- Central Railroad of New Jersey 4
- ConRail 4
- Du Pont, Richard C. (Richard Chichester), 1911-1943 4
- Du Pont, Sophie Madeleine, 1810-1888 4
- Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930 4
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Elastomer Chemicals Department 4
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Engineering Department 4
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company 4
- Jackson and Sharp Company 4
- Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc 4
- Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014 4
- Lukens Steel Company 4
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4
- Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company 4
- New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854 : New York, N.Y.) 4
- Pedersen, Charles J., 1904-1989 4
- Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division 4
- Richardson, George A., 1886-1976 4
- Savery, William H., 1865-1949 4
- Sperry Rand (Corporation). Univac Division 4
- Spruance, William C. (William Corbit), 1873-1935 4
- Thayer, Horace H., 1878-1959 4
- Watson, Robert B. 4 ∧ less
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