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Archival materials

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Edward G. Brame, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-115
Abstract

Biographical material, publications, correspondence, notebooks, newspaper clippings, lectures, reports, research files, and ephemera belonging to American chemist and spectroscopist Edward G. Brame, Jr.

Dates: 1935-2003; Majority of material found within 1976-1996

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company nylon correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-522
Scope and content

This collection consists of a small file consisting of three letters concerning items of apparel made from Du Pont Nylon fibers. These letters were clearly regarded by Du Pont as historically valuable. The oldest, from February 15, 1937 concerns stockings made from Rayon 66. The other two concern stockings made from nylon and the first commercial shirt made of nylon. Letters are from C. E. Sparks, Hazel K. Greigg, and L. A. Yerkes.

Dates: 1937-1969

Herbert T. Pratt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GB14-030
Abstract

Research files, printed materials, manuals, sample cards and sample books, notebooks, and signed items of Herbert T. Pratt, an American chemical engineer, chemistry historian, and collector of rare chemistry books, chemistry memorabilia, and textiles memorabilia.

Dates: 1793-2013; Majority of material found within Bulk 1945-2000

Issue of Du Pont Engineering News and bulletin from the Instrument Society of America

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-521
Scope and content

April 1959 issue of Du Pont Engineering News, and a 1961 bulletin from the Instrument Society of America (ISA).

Dates: 1959-1961

James Cloyd Downs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-016
Abstract

Diaries, correspondence, printed materials, and photographs of American chemical engineer James Cloyd Downs.

Dates: 1902-2018; Bulk 1923-1957

John E. Mehren Chemical Industries Publications Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-017
Abstract

A collection of chemical industry marketing materials and technical bulletins from 1932 to 1996 as collected and maintained by John E. Mehren on the behalf of the PM Chemical Company.

Dates: 1932-1992

Julius Reiver Collection of DuPont Seaford Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-503
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1939-1940

Papers of Joseph X. Labovsky

 Collection
Identifier: 96-07-001
Abstract

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

Dates: 1920-1997

Patent application for fibrous boehmite

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-515
Dates: 1955

Philip C. Price Mass Spectrometer Manuals Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-019
Abstract

A collection of mass spectrometer manuals collected by Philip C. Price, which were published by Associated Electrical Industries, Kratos Analytical, Instrumente und Gerate-Technik (IGT), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Dates: 1960-1992