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 [abstract]. The records of Lanman & Kemp document the operations of the wholesale drug business in the years before the development of modern
pharmaceuticals. They also show the importance of New York City as a center for the...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Barton H. Jenks papers. The papers include an annotated copy of the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company’s 1867 trade catalogue, and a series of patent papers relating to Barton H. Jenks’ inventions. These include textile...
Collection guide for Engineering Research Associates records. The records are divided into four series. Series I - William Norris Papers. Series II - Papers of Arnold Cohen (head of the Research Division). Series III - Legal Records and Patents....
Collection guide for Irv Koons collection. The Irv Koons archive includes marketing research studies, business correspondence, public relations files, and material from the designer's packaging courses. In addition to this textual component, the...
Collection guide; Research and invention; Women entrepreneurs and leaders
Collection guide for Jackson Hunsicker (Memo Mate) papers. The papers document the process of invention and patent application for a personal recording
device. The collection consists of the legal correspondence of Ms. Hunsicker’s...
Collection guide for John J. Raskob Papers documenting the life and accomplishments of one of the most prominent figures in pre-New Deal business and politics. Raskob had a lifelong business and personal association with Pierre S. du Pont, and...
Collection guide; Business leaders; Construction and building industry
Collection guide for John McShain papers. McShain was a Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.,-based building contractor. His major projects included the White House renovation (1950-1951), the Pentagon, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library...
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for L & R Organics Products Co., Inc., records. The records of L. & R. Organic Products Co., Inc., are a fragment that had been
preserved in the old building and were discovered by a new owner in 2006. The records consist of files...
Collection guide; Business leaders; Electric utilities and appliances
Collection guide for Philip D. Reed papers. Reed was president and chief executive
officer of General Electric Company from 1940-1942 and 1945-
1959. During World War II, Reed was a "dollar-a-year" man
serving in the Office of Production Management...
Collection guide for the Raymond Loewy archives. Loewy (1893-1986) was one of the most influential industrial designers of the twentieth century. During a career of five decades, Loewy produced ubiquitous designs for a wide range of cars, household...
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 for the William du Pont Family Papers. The William du Pont family papers, 450 linear feet, consist of correspondence, financial records and printed materials, which document the personal and business activities of the father and...
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,...
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...
Ernest Dichter (1907-1991) was a Vienna-trained psychologist who came to New York in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He became a pioneer in the development of motivational research, a marketing tool that used psychological techniques to probe...
Ernest Dichter (1907-1991) was a Vienna-trained psychologist who came to New York in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He became a pioneer in the development of motivational research, a marketing tool that used psychological techniques to probe consumers'...
