Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for the Allen D. Cardwell Manufacturing Corporation Records. The collection consists of 2.5 linear feet of records, photographs, and scrapbooks. The records are divided into three series. Series I -- Technical Records. Series II --...
The Aurora Gun Club Collection documents the rich history of one of the Brandywine Valley’s most prominent target shooting organizations. Founded by brothers Eugene and Alexis I du Pont, the club in still in existence today and actively holds...
Collection guide for the Bailey, Banks and Biddle Company records. The Bailey, Banks & Biddle records (81 boxes) consists of a fairly complete set of records pertaining to diamond sales and remounting. Also included are diamond sales registers,...
This group of papers were preserved by the Bannerman family. The papers are
extremely fragmentary and have been placed in a simple alphabetical subject arrangement.
Although fragmentary, this collection contains some important pieces that make...
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; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Betts and Seal records. The Betts family of Wilmington, Delaware, produced three
generations of innovative founders and machinists. They
played an important role in the founding of three of the city's major manufacturing...
Collection guide for Brandywine Manufacturers' Sunday School Papers, a nonsectarian school offering classes in reading, writing, arithmetic, and Bible lessons, was incorporated in 1817. Papers include student attendance forms, registration books,...
Collection guide for Brown Instrument Company records. The records consist mostly of engineering reports on the research, development,
production, and installation of the company’s control and measuring systems.
Correspondence and internal...
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; Consumer products; DuPont Company
This pictorial collection consists of brochures, advertisements, photographs, and ephemera showing Du Pont Company consumer products from 1913 to 1984. Chief among these products are paint and car care products such as car wash, polish, and...
The Charles L. Reese papers are a miscellaneous group of material from his student days, the texts of lectures and articles, biographical materials and genealogical notes.
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 Christiana Machine Company records. The company, established in 1834, was a
small general purpose machine shop and foundry located in Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Orders and customer correspondence form the...
Because the Christiana Securities Company served as a relatively passive instrument of family control rather than pursuing and agressive investment strategy, its records are relatively routine. The exceptions are those records dealing with the...
Collection guide for DuPont (China), Inc. records. The records of Du Pont (China), Inc., consist of two batches of material preserved by Gant W. Miller, Jr., who had taken over operation of the company’s Hong Kong office
on January 1, 1950. The...
Collection guide for DuPont Performance Coatings, Inc. The corporation was created in March 1999 by the merger of DuPont Automotive Finishes, a business unit of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, and
Herberts GmbH, the coatings subsidiary of the...
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...
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...
Collection guide for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company records. The records are arranged into 3 series: Series A contains correspondence (1802-1891, bulk 1802-1815) with over 500 individuals and firms,
including customers, suppliers, sales agents...
