The Cavalcade of America television show was an anthology drama which aired on NBC from 1952 to 1953 and ABC from 1953 to 1957. The show was adapted from a radio show of the same name sponsored by the DuPont Company, a chemical company, which began as a manufacturer of gunpowder in 1802.This collections consists of two reels of television commercials for various DuPont products. The commercials feature various spokesmen talking about or demonstrating the products. One commercial features DuPont Company president Crawford Greenewalt.

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. Throughout the 1900s and 1910s, the company shifted its focus away from gunpowder production and towards chemistry innovations. This collection contains twenty photographs of DuPont Company exhibits and exhibit areas in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, as well as exterior views in the vicinity of the Hall and views of the boardwalk at North Carolina Avenue. Chalfonte-Haddon Hall was a hotel and convention center that had its start as two Quaker boarding houses built in the 1860s.

John M. Barineau (1950-) worked at the DuPont Company for more than forty-five years, serving in a variety of capacities, including operations, product and process development, quality management, product management, capital project management, process safety management, Six Sigma improvements of supply chains, and purchasing, as well as with customers and suppliers working at or visiting approximately seventy DuPont Company sites and contract operations in sixteen countries. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. This small collection of Barineau's papers provides insight into product development. The materials are public information associated with operations that have been sold or terminated or are outdated. These documents show a "behind-the-scenes" view of what was happening within DuPont. The collection has been arranged into five series: Engineering Polymers/Nylon Resins files, Engineering Polymers/Hytrel Polyester Elastomer files, Engineering Polymers improvement initiatives files, DuPont corporate improvement initiatives files, and General files.