Collection guide; Computer industry; Research and invention
Collection guide for Geoffrey D. Austrian Research Notes on Herman Hollerith. Austrian, an employee of IBM, first became interested in Herman
Hollerith while working on background information for IBM Day in 1964. His Herman
Hollerith: Forgotten...
Collection guide for Repauno Works Historical File. This collection consists of material collected for the 100th anniversary of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Repauno Works.
Collection guide for Sophie du Pont May papers. The collection consists of Sophie du Pont May's family and financial correspondence. Her family correspondence pertains to holiday, acknowledgements, and other special occasions. The financial...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for John B. Lovis Research Notes on Bethlehem Steel Corporation. John B. Lovis (born 1935), spent his career with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He first worked in the Blast Furnace Department at Sparrows Point, Md. In 1963 he...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors; Transportation
Collection guide for The Budd Company was a pioneering manufacturer of all-steel transportation vehicles. The manuscript historical files include biographical information about the company’s founder, Edward G. Budd, and clippings, tear sheets,...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Henry Disston & Sons account books. Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. was a major manufacturer of saws and other woodworking tools and one of the largest industrial firms in Philadelphia. The records, 1824-1918 (bulk, 1867-1907),...
Collection guide; Electric utilities and appliances; Insurance and financial industry
Collection guide for the records of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company (PP&L). Records document the history of the gas and electric utility industry in eastern Pennsylvania in the years between 1853 and 1955. The collection includes both the...
Collection guide; Consumer products; Industrial products and design
Collection guide for Milprint records collected by Leonard W. Walton. Fully two thirds of the collection are printing
samples on a full range of media: glassine paper, cardboard, foil, cellophane, and polyethylene. They include such items candy...
Collection guide for historical files on Neoprene. The records consist of a mix of historical and contemporary documents assembled to celebrate the 50th anniversary of neoprene in 1981, enlarged to cover the 70th anniversary in 2001, and kept up...
Collection guide for the Charles L. Huston Papers, a collection of Mr. Huston's family and personal papers, and a small percentage of Lukens Steel
Company business related papers.
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for the papers of Samuel G. Wright documenting his activities as a New Jersey gentleman farmer, a Philadelphia merchant, an ironmaster,
and a member of the New Jersey Legislature, as well as his private investments in land. It is...
Collection guide for the Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). It subsumed Bancroft's earlier,...
Collection guide for Remington Rand Corporation records, a company formed as a result of the 1927 merger
of the Remington Typewriter Company and the Rand Kardex Company. Its products included typewriters, adding machines and other office equipment...
The papers of Paul Arthur are comprised of material collected by Dr. Arthur’s sister, Dorothy Arthur from 1967 through the 1988. The Collection is divided into two series. The first contains press releases from the DuPont Company and includes...
The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
This collection helps to document the history of Singer Manufacturing Company during the period 1860 through 1880. After success in forming one of the first U.S. patent pools the Singer Company was ready to capitalize and built several new...
Collection guide for Sperry-Univac records. Sperry-UNIVAC was the information technology division of the Sperry Corporation. It was formed after Sperry absorbed the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and Engineering Research Associates, two of...
Collection guide for Pew Family collection. Collection includes the record of personal, religious, political and charitable activities of the Pew Family.
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors; Research and invention
Collection guide for Elmer Ambrose Sperry papers (1860-1930). Sperry invented the ship gyrostabilizer, gyrocompass, marine gyropilot, high-intensity search light, and aerial torpedo, and founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company. This collection...
