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Cazenove Gardner Lee, Jr. photographs and negatives
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Collection
Accession: 1969-085
Abstract:
Cazenove Gardner Lee, Jr. (1882-1945) was a genealogist and prolific writer, who founded the Society of Lees of Virginia. This collection conists of photographs and negatives relating to family and career of Cazenove Gardner Lee, Jr. The images are primarily of various gunpowder mills and machinery.
Dates:
circa 1900-1925
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Guncotton plant panoramic photographs
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Collection
Accession: 1969-145
Abstract:
The DuPont Company purchased a site near City Point, Virginia on the James River in 1912 in order to build a dynamite plant located closer to the southern market. The panoramic photographs show exteriors of the plant, views of the workers' housing, the town (including the African American section), and a photograph of the Hopewell China Corporation, a post-war reuse of one of the facilities.
Dates:
1918-circa 1920