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Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1972
Abstract:
The majority of the records for the parent company consist of correspondence, both incoming and outgoing, primarily generated by or for company officers and/or directors.
Dates:
1901-1956
Victorine Elizabeth du Pont papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1333
Abstract:
Victorine Elizabeth du Pont (1825-1887) was the daughter of Alfred Victor du Pont (1798-1856), senior partner in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, and Margaretta Elizabeth (Lammot) du Pont (1807-1898), and the wife of Peter Kemble (1825-1887). Her papers contain miscellaneous material related to the du Pont family, including bills for her trousseau, autograph album, and correspondence from her mother, daughter, and grandson.
Dates:
1842-1888
Wallace Hume Carothers correspondence
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2255
Abstract:
Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937) was a chemist and inventor of Neoprene artificial rubber and Nylon synthetic fiber. He worked as a chemist in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's Fundamental Research Program from 1928 until his death in 1937. From 1915 to 1920, he attended Tarkio College in Missouri as a science major. This collection of Carothers' letters was written to and preserved by a close friend, Wilko Gustav Machentanz (1895-1973), with whom Carothers roomed for two of his years at Tarkio. The bulk of the letters were written between 1917 and 1922, before Carothers became absorbed in his doctoral studies, although the two corresponded as late as 1936.
Dates:
1915-1947; Majority of material found within 1917-1922
Wallace Hume Carothers letters to Frances Gelvin Spencer
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2435
Abstract:
Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937) was a chemist and inventor of Neoprene artificial rubber and Nylon synthetic fiber. He worked as a chemist in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's Fundamental Research Program from 1928 until his death in 1937. This collection consists of photocopies of fourteen letters written by Carothers to his former college girlfriend from Missouri, Frances Gelvin Spencer, between 1929 and 1933. The nature of the letters is almost entirely personal.
Dates:
1929-1933
Wilhelmina du Pont letters
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1591
Abstract:
Wilhelmina du Pont (1906-2000) was the daughter of William K. du Pont (1875-1907) and Ethel Hallock (1876-1951), a fourth generation descendent from E.I. du Pont (1771-1834). The letters are to Wilhelmina du Pont from her cousin Alice (Belin) (Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont) (1872-1944); mother Ethel (Mrs. William Kemble du Pont); cousin Alice (du Pont) (Mrs. T. Coleman du Pont) (1863-1937); and uncle Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954).
Dates:
1915-1952
William Branford Shubrick letters of appreciation
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 0144
Abstract:
William Branford Shubrick (1790-1874) was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served from 1806 to 1861, including service in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and retired in the early months of the Civil War. The collection includes letters to Shubrick from Charles Henry Davis (1807-1877) and Samuel Francis du Pont (1803-1865) in appreciation of his naval services.
Dates:
1863
William C. Spruance miscellany
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2589
Abstract:
William Spruance (1873-1935) was an electrical engineer and corporate officer in the DuPont Company. The collection contains letters about shares in the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company awarded under the company's bonus system.
Dates:
1905-1926
William du Pont family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2317
Abstract:
William du Pont, Sr. (1855-1928) was an industrialist and member of the promienent du Pont family of Delaware, whose family business was the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, also known as the DuPont Company which was a large manufacturer of gunpowder. He worked for the first DuPont dynamite manufacturer, Repauno Chemical Company, as secretary and treasurer (1880-1884) and after the tragic death of Lammot du Pont (1831-1884), as president (1884-1892). William du Pont, Jr. was the youngest child of du Pont, Sr. and Annie Rogers Zinn du Pont (1858-1827). Du Pont Jr. became the president of Delaware Trust Company in 1929, the youngest bank president in Wilmington at that time. In 1952, he became chairman of the board, retaining both positions until his death in 1965. The William du Pont family papers are organized into two record groups: William du Pont, Sr. papers and William du Pont, Jr. papers. The William du Pont, Sr. papers primarily encompass the years of his active business life from the early 1880s to his death in 1928. There are also some papers from his early life and after his death. The William du Pont, Jr. papers document areas of his activities predominantly concerned with land development in Wilmington, Delaware; farming, animal breeding and foxhunting in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia; and promotion of horse racing in the United States, especially in Delaware.
Dates:
1840-1980
William du Pont, Sr. papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2724
Abstract:
William du Pont (1855-1928) was an industrialist and member of the promienent du Pont family of Delaware, whose family business was the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, also known as the DuPont Company which was a large manufacturer of gunpowder. He worked for the first DuPont dynamite manufacturer, Repauno Chemical Company, as secretary and treasurer (1880-1884) and after the tragic death of Lammot du Pont (1831-1884), as president (1884-1892). This small group of papers encompass both correspondence and various financial and investment accounts, largely covering his ten years spent in England after leaving the United States in 1893.
Dates:
1891-1905
William F. Gardner letter
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2676
Abstract:
William F. Gardner (1840-1907) was a minister for the Episcopal Church. The letter is a general farewell upon being assigned to a new parish, urging his parrishoners to keep in the faith and look to the upkeep of the parish.
Dates:
1866 September 18
William G. Ramsay Biographical File
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2049
Abstract:
The collection primarily consists of newspaper clippings, telegrams, resolutions, and correspondence regarding Ramsay's death and funeral.
Dates:
1899-1946
William G. Ramsay family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2600
Abstract:
William Gouverneur Ramsay (1866-1916) trained as a civil engineer at the University of Virginia, finishing his course work in 1887. After a career working at various times in canal, railroad, chemical, dynamite, and coal industries, in 1903, Ramsay became Du Pont's chief engineer and directed the construction of many of the largest explosives factories in the United States. In 1916, Ramsay became a director and vice president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, in addition to retaining his position as chief engineer. The William G. Ramsay family correspondence comprises sixty-four letters. They are largely addressed to William himself, from a variety of interlocutors, but mostly members of his own family. The majority of the letters are written by women, and thus provide a powerful picture into women’s lives and roles in the Ramsay family at the turn of the century across the Eastern seaboard.
Dates:
1877-1942; Majority of material found within 1893-1916
William H. Horstmann and Co. material
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1052
Abstract:
William H. Horstmann & Co. was a manufacturer and retailer of civilian and military equipment. The material is primarily receipts, a small amount of correspondence related to inspection of goods or contracts, and a newspaper clipping of an engraving of the Horstmann's Manufactory.
Dates:
1831-1876
William H. Savery papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 0915
Abstract:
William H. Savery (1865-1949) was a paper manufacturer and president of the Harpers Ferry Paper Company, the Harpers Ferry Electic Light Company, and the Shenandoah Pulp Company. He was also president and general manager of the Parsons Engineering Company. The collection documents Savery's involvement with the Parsons Engineering Company, the York Haven and Harpers Ferry Paper Company from 1899 to 1920.
Dates:
1885-1938
William Henry Russell collection of Morris family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 0721
Abstract:
The Morris family of Philadelphia were brewers, merchants, land speculators, manufacturers, and prominent participants in public affairs. Their papers are primarily from Samuel and Isaac W. Morris. However, the collection includes papers from other family members from the first Anthony Morris to John Thompson Morris (1847-1915), the founder of the Morris Arboretum in Germantown. There are also papers from members of the Wistar, Paschall, and Mifflin families allied by marriage.
Dates:
1684-1935
William Hilles Ward papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2278
Abstract:
William Hilles Ward (1892-1961) was a chemist, who specialized in explosives serving in high positions at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and the Remington Arms Company, Inc. The collection includes press clippings, speeches, photographs of Ward and the DuPont Board of Directors, birth and death certificates for Ward and his wife Sophie Hodges Ward (1894-1968), obituaries and memorials.
Dates:
1894-1970
William Sellers & Co. records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 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 Young letter of introduction
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 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
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 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
Wood-Randolph family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 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
Wright family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 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
Wurts family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 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
Young, McAllister, and Warner family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 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 94
- Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817 34
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- Du Pont, Sophie Madeleine, 1810-1888 14
- Du Pont de Nemours, Francoise Robin Poivre, 1748-1841 11
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- United States. Navy 11
- Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 7
- Du Pont, Henry, 1812-1889 6
- Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 6
- Crowninshield, Louise du Pont, 1877-1958 4
- Pusey and Jones Company 4
- Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 4
- Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937 3
- Du Pont, Margaretta Lammot, 1807-1898 3
- Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.) 3
- New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854 : New York, N.Y.) 3
- Pusey & Jones Corporation 3
- Ramsay, William G. (William Gouverneur), 1866 - 1916 3
- Savery, Thomas H., 1837-1910 3
- Spruance, William C. (William Corbit), 1873-1935 3
- Young, William, 1755-1829 3
- Bauduy family 2
- Bauduy, Peter, 1769-1833 2
- Boucher de Molandon, Rémi Robert, 1765-1824 2
- Brandywine Manufacturers Sunday School 2
- Christ Church Christiana Hundred (Greenville, DE) 2
- Christ Church Christiana Hundred Sunday School 2
- Copeland, Louisa d'A du Pont (Louisa d'Andelot du Pont), 1868-1926 2
- Crofton, Gabrielle Josephine Shubrick, 1835-1894 2
- Davis, Henry Winter, 1817-1865 2
- Delaware and Hudson Canal Company 2
- Du Pont, Alexis I. (Alexis Irénée), 1843-1904 2
- Du Pont, Annie Rogers, 1858-1927 2
- Du Pont, Francis Gurney, 1850-1904 2
- Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 2
- Du Pont, William, 1855-1928 2
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station 2
- Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 1821-1883 2
- Gilpin, Joshua, 1765-1841 2
- Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 2
- Gustav, King of Sweden, III, 1746-1792 2
- Harmand, Philippe Nicolas, 1759-1839 2
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 2
- Jullien, Marc-Antoine, 1775-1848 2
- Kemble, Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, 1825-1887 2
- Lukens Steel Company 2
- Lukenweld, Inc 2
- Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927 2
- May, Sophie du Pont, 1900-2001 2
- Ramsay family 2
- Ree, Lavinia Dimmick, 1874-1946 2
- Scheffer, Carl Fredrik, 1715-1786 2
- Smith, Eleuthera du Pont, 1806-1876 2
- Spruance family 2
- Spruance, Alice Lea, 1876-1967 2
- Thayer, Horace H., 1878-1959 2
- Thomas, David, 1794-1882 2
- Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, baron de l'Aulne, 1727-1781 2
- Walcutt, Julia du Pont Crofton, 1866-1948 2
- Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 2
- de Forest, Meta Kemble, 1852-1933 2
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1
- Aiken, James C., 1806-1884 1
- Alaska Mutual Bank 1
- Albany Academy 1
- Allen Family Association 1
- Allen family 1
- Allen, Benjamin, 1772-1836 1
- Allen, George F. (George Featherstonhaugh), 1815-1863 1
- Allen, Grace B. (Grace Brown), 1849-1854 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Allen, Mary Benedict (Mary Benedict), 1778-1828 1
- Allen, Mary L. (Mary Louisa), 1816-1861 1
- Allen, Mary Mancrief, 1811-1887 1
- Allen, Rose E. 1
- Allen, Theodore, 1800-1850 1
- Allen, Thomas, 1698-1780 1
- American Mining and Securities Corporation 1
- American Sunday-School Union 1
- Ammen, Daniel, 1820-1898 1
- Andrew Clow & Co 1
- Annette, Walter Magee, 1874-1955 1
- Arctic (Steamship) 1
- Austin, Ben W., -1898 1
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
- Bartley Crucible and Refractories, Inc. 1
- Battan, Hayes 1
- Baudin, 1748-1799 1
- Bauduy, Amelia Keating, 1820-1886 1
- Bauduy, Juliette Bretton des Chapelles, 1773-1837 1
- Bauduy, Victorine du Pont, 1792-1861 1
- Bayard, James A. (James Asheton), 1799-1880 1
- Belin, G. d'Andelot (Gaspard d'Andelot), 1888-1954 1
- Belknap, Robert Lenox 1
- Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 1
- Benedict family 1
- Bidermann, Evelina du Pont, 1796-1863 1
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