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American Iron and Steel Institute's Keller Collection

Albert T. Keller assembled a collection of over 2,000 photographs of nineteenth and twentieth century blast furnaces, many of which he took himself. From 1931 to 1937 Keller's avocation was to take weekend and vacation trips in order to document and photograph the ruins of early American iron furnaces in Pennsylvania and the Eastern …

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Avon Company Collection

The Avon Company Collection provides a unique perspective on the history of the company, its sales representatives, employees, and consumers. The Avon materials in the Hagley Digital Archives encompasses a range of materials such as advertisements, catalogs, representative's sales tools, and corporate documents.  The Avon content …

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Civil War Collections

This collection includes a small but significant collection of items from the Hagley Library related to the Civil War.  These items were digitized in conjunction with Hagley's exhibit An Oath of Allegiance to the Republic: The du Ponts and the Civil War.

 

Image: Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, his staff, and sailors …

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Consolidation Coal Company, Annual Reports, 1940-1965

Collection includes Annual Reports from the Consolidation Coal Company ("Consol") from 1940 to 1965.  Also includes a history of the company published in 1934 for their 70th anniversary.

 

Image: Cover of the 1965 Annual Report of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. Click to View

Dallin Aerial Survey Company, 1924-1941

This digital collection includes more than 7,800 of the approximately 12,000 images in the Dallin Aerial Survey Company collection. The company specialized in aerial images of factories, private estates, schools, country clubs, towns, airports, rivers, and many other sites and some news events of the day. The majority of the photographs …

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Demirjian Collection of DuPont Co. Packaging and Advertising

Charles H. DeMirjian worked for the Du Pont Company from 1954 until 1991, becoming the Manager of Packaging Design in the Consumer Products Division. He collected pictures, advertisements, and publications showing Du Pont consumer products, as well as some of the products and packages themselves.

 

This collection consists of brochures, …

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DuPont Company Collection

This collection includes a growing selection of DuPont Company records from Hagley Library's manuscripts and archives department. The subject browse list below provides an overview of what has been digitized so far for this ongoing project

 

These items are being digitized as part of The DuPont Company on the Brandywine online …

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DuPont Automobiles, 1903-1912

This collection includes 36 images of DuPont Automobiles produced by the DuPont Motor Company. DuPont Motors built limited production luxury cars - less then 700 were produced during the history of the company from 1919 to 1931. Most of the images in the collection are undated with limited description.

DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

This magazine, started in 1913 by the DuPont Company, publicized the products and progress of the company during the twentieth century. The issues include articles, product information, and advertisements on topics such as dynamite, quarrying, ammunition, popular plastic products, automobile accessories, and other useful items for the …

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DuPont Product Information Photographs

A selection of images from the DuPont Product Information Photographs Collection that includes images documenting product publicity.  The collection also has a number of photographs that document manufacturing facilities and processes.  The majority of the collection covers a period from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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About the collections



The Hagley Digital Archives provides online access to selected items from the Hagley Museum and Library's collection of images, documents, and publications related to the history of business, technology, and society. Read more about Hagley

 

 

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Civil War Collection

Consolidation Coal Company, Annual Reports

Project Brandywine, Aerial Photographs

PSFS Building

Z. Taylor Vinson Collection

 

 

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