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Atlas Powder Company records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1516
Abstract:
Incorporated in 1912, Atlas Powder Company functioned as an independent explosives and chemicals company until 1971, when it was purchased by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (U.K.) and became its American affiliate under the name ICI Americas, Inc. The collection consists of minutes, reports, and correspondence from Atlas in addition to both predecessor and subsidiary companies.
Dates:
1868-1958, bulk 1912-1958
Carney's Point Works Technical Department records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1914
Abstract:
The Technical Department at DuPont's Carney's Point Works was established to collaborate with scientists at the DuPont Experimental Station and Eastern Laboratory of the Repauno Works to develop new products, maintain quality control, and improve products and processes. The collection focuses on the department's start-up period (1906-1910) and the two World Wars.
Dates:
1906-1968
Clinton Blackburn work papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2177
Abstract:
Clinton H. Blackburn (1916-1993) was a mechanical engineer with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Blackburn's papers are a sample of work-related materials he retained upon retirement.
Dates:
1945-1982
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
Eugene du Pont Jr. papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1599
Abstract:
Eugene du Pont Jr. (1873-1954) was a director of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company from 1917 until 1954, and a great grandson of company founder, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834). The collection contains the personal papers of Eugene du Pont, Jr., and the records of the Kinloch Gun Club, a private shooting club which he founded. It also contains a separate collection of correspondence between his brother Alfred I. du Pont, vice president and general manager of the DuPont Company, with his assistant Frank L. Connable, which is an important source for the history of the company in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1835-1956
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- Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896 1
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- Peerless Explosives Company 1
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- Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 1
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