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Factories

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Plants and Manufacturing facilities. Includes: Gunpowder factories; Dynamite factories; Explosives factories; Paint factories; Cosmetics factories; Millinery factories; Aeronautical instrument factories; Rope factories; Musical instrument factories.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

DuPont Company Pompton Lakes plant photographs

 Collection
Accession: 2006-225
Abstract:

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont Company, established in 1802. In 1902 the DuPont Company acquired the Smith Electric Fuze Company and some other properties in the Pompton Lakes, New Jersey area. This collection consists of one color photograph showing three DuPont Company explosives delivery trucks, 1966 and two aerial photographs of the DuPont Company's Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, plant.

Dates: 1962-1966

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Pompton Lakes panoramic photographs

 Collection
Accession: 1969-152
Abstract:

In 1902 the DuPont Company acquired the Smith Electric Fuze Company and some other properties in the Pompton Lakes, New Jersey area. DuPont continued the manufacture of fuses, blasting caps, and other blasting supplies at the plant, adding a shell plant and other facilities. One panoramic photograph shows an overview of the DuPont Company plant at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, 1918, and the other is a group portrait of staff, August 25, 1943.

Dates: 1918; 1943