Nylon

Research files, interview notes, oral history notes and materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, conferences and presentations materials, and publications belonging to James J. Bohning.

Nylon-related photographs and ephemera collected by Joseph Labovsky, a lab assistant to Wallace Carothers at Du Pont during the early stages of Nylon production.

This collection consists of 4 notebooks containing a mix of photographic and printed materials documenting various cost control and job improvement projects related to DuPont{u2019}s nylon plant in Seaford, Delaware between 1939 and 1940.

This collection of notebooks, correspondence and Du Pont memos compliments larger collections of Du Pont production photographs and Nylon-related artifacts.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1049968~S6

This collection is not a unified compendium, rather it is an assemblage of surviving materials.

Black and white print photographs comprising a promotional scrapbook entitled "A Review of Nylon Textile Fibers."

This material consists of student materials used by Lynch while enrolled at the Philadelphia Institute of Textiles and materials collected by Lynch while employed as a working chemist at Du Pont.