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 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 Edward D. deLuca papers. The papers cover his work as a management expert both in private practice and for the Agency for International Development and the cities of Baltimore
and Pittsburgh. The papers are primarily personal...
Collection guide for Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and Sophie Dalmas du Pont Papers. Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834) was the founder of the gun powder manufacturing firm E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The collection consists of both personal...
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...
Collection guide for Elva M. Chandler papers. The Elva M. Chandler Papers primarily reflect her
memberships in a variety of organizations. There are also some personal papers such as
correspondence, bills and receipts, and tax records.
Collection guide for Ernest Munster Papers. The papers are primarily records Munster maintained during his years as
president of Lawyers International Corporation (from the company's formation in 1930 through the mid-1940s), with some papers
dating...
Collection guide; Business services; Manufacturing and related sectors
Collection guide for Hardy Jefferson Bowen papers. The collection includes some financial statements for Industrial Model Supplies, Inc. and two divisions of that company. There is also a 1974 annual report for Blasius
Industries, Inc., who...
Collection guide; Business leaders; Business services; Women entrepreneurs and leaders
Collection guide for Helen Baker Cushman business papers. Cushman operated a business history consulting
firm in Westfield, New Jersey, from 1958-1998. This collection consists primarily of client correspondence, research materials, ephemera, and...
Collection guide for Henry F. Brown papers. The papers consist almost entirely of engineering reports and memoranda relating to railroad electrification and electric locomotives and cars. About a third deal with the
Pennsylvania Railroad,...
Collection guide for Henry Hemmendinger papers. The papers are arranged in five series, Organizations and
Committees, Publications, Courses, Conferences, and Color, representing the span of Hemmendinger’s career. The Hemmendinger Papers include...
Collection guide; Electric utilities and appliances
Collection guide for Ivan F. Baker papers. The papers describe Baker's overseas work with
Westinghouse and his postwar activities promoting economic development and
international trade. There are numerous engineering reports, memoranda, handbooks...
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 for Louis Forman papers. The business papers are a collection of fragments relating to his various business activities. Most of the materials date from the 1940s to about 1970, although there are copies of documents dealing with...
Collection guide for Louise du Pont Crowninshield papers. This collection contains the papers of Louise du Pont Crowninshield and her husband, mother, and other du Pont family members.
