Caption text on photo: "'Butacite' polyvinyl butyral resin is used as inner layer of safety glass. Sheeting manufactured from this resin is of excellent clarity and color and is particularly resistant to the deteriorating influences of prolonged...
Caption text on photo: "A step in the manufacture of 'Butacite' polyvinyl butyral resin, which is used as the inner layer of laminated safety glass for automobiles. Here 'Butacite' is being cut to widths ordered by the customer to fit his...
Bogue called to Mayor's office in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and questioned amount of powder at the magazine and on selling powder to the South, mentions he does sell to stores in Virginia, needs advice of DuPont to stop selling. Mayor mentions...
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Henry Dearborn requests that the company remanufacture rifle powder for the U.S. War Department using U.S. government saltpeter in the company's possession.
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Major Frederick Martin, his wife and son, on board the S.S. Catherine D. on the Major's arrival at Bellingham, Washington, from Port Moller, Alaska. A big crowd was at the dock to greet the famous pilot after...
Text from back of image: "The nation's greatest city on, June 18th, extended greetings to Mexico's renowned flier Capt. Emilio Carranza, who flew from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to return Col. Lindbergh's good-will visit. Photo shows the...
Capitol Square from Richmond Hotel-The State Capitol building at Richmond, Virginia with the Washington Monument in the foreground and the Governor’s Mansion at the extreme left and rear of picture.
Summer, Washington & Winter Streets. One of Boston's traditions is her narrow streets, which grew up from cow paths. This is a typical scene in the congested section of the retail shopping district.
An air view of the DuPont Company's plastic plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Called the Washington Works, the plant has grown steadily since the start up in 1948. As a result, well over 1,000 new jobs have been created. The plant manufactures...
The brick house known as Buck or Carson’s Tavern was frequented by General George Washington in 1774 and as President on trips from Mount Vernon in Virginia to New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the early seats of government....
Tomb in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, established during the Civil War on the grounds of the Arlington House, formerly the estate of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Curtis) Lee, great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Tomb is...
Tomb in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, established during the Civil War on the grounds of the Arlington House, formerly the estate of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Curtis) Lee, great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Tomb is...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Conservation; Excavating Lake Washington Canal; Dependability; Smokeless Bananas; Ballistite Unhurt by Three Months' Immersion; Practical Explosives Efficiency; Two or More Electric Blasting Caps in a Bore Hole; Depth of Charges...
Table of Contents: Explosive rivets; The best tires ever; Ever see a vertical tunnel; Rubber chemicals, what are they; A statment about DuPont plastics; Now we can tell; Where Washington walked; Packages with a future; Down Memory Lane with an old...
