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DuPont Company executives portraits

Creation: 1919-1996
 Collection
Accession: 2010-205

Abstract

The DuPont executive team holds top-line responsibility for driving DuPont’s vision and ensuring that its core values are upheld across the company.This collection consists of individual portraits of DuPont Company executives. It also includes group portraits of the Executive Committee, Finance Committee, and Board of Directors.

Dates

  • Creation: 1919-1996

Extent

7.5 Linear Feet

Physical Description

42 photographic prints : b&w : 15.5 x 18.5 in.20 photographic prints : b&w : 15 x 17 in. 115 photographic prints : b&w : 11 x 14 in. 7 photographic prints : color : 11 x 14 in. 1 photographic print : b&w : 10 x 19.5 in. 3 photographic prints : color : 9 x 14 in. 17 photographic prints : b&w : 9 x 12 in. 11 photographic prints : color : 8 x 10 in. 1 photographic print : b&w : 7.5 x 18 in. 2 photographic prints : color : 7 x 7 in. 1 photographic print : color : 5 x 7 in. 1 photographic print : color : 4 x 5 in. 3 negatives : color : 4 x 5 in. 21 negatives : color : 120 mm. 59 slides : color : 35 mm. 1 item (engraved print) : b&w : ca. 8 x 11 in. in frame 16 x 20 in.

Historical Note

For more than 200 years, DuPont has brought world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace through innovative products, materials and services. Its market-driven innovation introduces thousands of new products and patent applications every year, serving markets as diverse as agriculture, nutrition, electronics and communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation and apparel.

The DuPont executive team holds top-line responsibility for driving DuPont’s vision and ensuring that its core values are upheld across the company. For more than 200 years, DuPont leaders have guided the company through great change, continually renewing its position as a leader in market-driven science and innovation. DuPont leadership includes its Board of Directors, corporate executives and regional and functional leaders who carry responsibilities for realizing DuPont’s mission to create shareholder and societal value, while reducing its environmental footprint.

Many of these portraits were originally framed and hung in the DuPont Company's Corporate Headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of individual portraits of DuPont Company executives. It also includes group portraits of the Executive Committee, Finance Committee, and Board of Directors. Many photos are identified, though there are approximately thirty individual portraits and twenty group portraits that remain unidentified.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research. Litigators may not view the collection without approval.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Provenance

On Deposit from E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title:
DuPont Company executives portraits
Author:
Chase Markee
Date:
2013
Description rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description:
English
Script of description:
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository

Contact:
PO Box 3630
Wilmington Delaware 19807 USA
302-658-2400