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Fire departments

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Du Pont Motors, Inc. Moore factory photographs

 Collection
Accession: 1994-254
Abstract:

DuPont Motors, Inc. was a manufacturing company of luxury automobiles, founded by E. Paul du Pont (1887-1950) in 1919 in Wilmington, Delaware. These photographs show exterior views of the vacant DuPont Motors factory in Moore, Pennsylvania, where briefly (1922-1925) DuPont automobiles were assembled.

Dates: 1994

Firehouses and historic buildings of Wilmington photographs

 Collection
Accession: 1972-251
Abstract:

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The company was established in 1802 and began with the production of gunpowder. Collection consists of five photographs, four of which are exterior views of historic structures in Wilmington. Two fire companies are pictured, the Friendship Firehouse in the late 1800s and the fire station of Company No. 1

Dates: 1876-circa 1940