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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Carney's Point Works and workers housing panoramic photographs
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Accession: 1969-138
Abstract:
The DuPont Company purchased the land for a smokeless powder plant at Carney's Point, New Jersey (across the Delaware River from Wilmington, Delaware) in 1890. In 1892 it produced its first guncotton, and then the first smokeless powder. This collection consists of twenty panoramic photographs of Carney's Point smokeless powder plant, including exteriors of various buildings and groups of workers.
Dates:
1915-1918
Indiana Ordnance Works, Ballistics Laboratory photographs
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Accession: 2001-209
Abstract:
The Indiana Ordnance Works was built by the DuPont Company for the U.S. Government beginning in 1940. It manufactured military explosives, propellants, and smokeless powder. This collection consists of photographs of the Ballistics Lab of the Indiana Ordnance Works.
Dates:
1941