Letterpress copybooks, 1882-1916.

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

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The family firm of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was established in 1802 and during the 19th century it became one of the United States' most important manufacturers of black powder. In 1902 three younger du Pont cousins: T. Coleman, Alfred I., and Pierre S. took over the company and within three years succeeded in bringing 75% of the American explosives industry (which at that time included black powder, dynamite, and smokeless powder) under their control. During the first decade of the...

Robert Wetherill & Company.

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The firm of Robert Wetherill & Company was formed on January 1, 1872, by the brothers Robert and Richard Wetherill. The firm established a factory at 6th and Upland Streets in Chester, Pa., and specialized in the manufacture of Corliss-type stationary steam engines, offering complete factory power installations, including boilers, engines, shafting, pulleys and mill gearing. When the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company was founded during the first phase of World War I, it purchased the Wet...

Philadelphia Traction Company.

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John Bromley & Sons.

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Eddystone Manufacturing Company.

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Babcock & Wilcox Company

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A paper by E.G. Bailey entitled, Development of Poser from Coal, March 1935, and a paper by W.I. Collins entitled, Small and Mediuum Sized Cyclone Furnace Boilers, September 1954. From the description of Development of Power From Coal and Small and Medium Size Cyclone Furnace Boilers 1935-1954 [manuscript] (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 671549847 ...

Edison Electric Light Company

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Parent company of all Edison electric light enterprises. Established in 1878. From the description of Edison Electric Light Company records, 1879-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984047 Edison Company was a major producer of motion pictures during early years of the film industry. From the description of Scripts, 1909-1916. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 86152578 ...

Philadelphia (Pa.). Water Dept.

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Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company

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The Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company constructed the deepwater automobile ferry Princess Anne in 1935-36 for the Virginia Ferry Corporation's run between Cape Charles and Little Creek, Va., across the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. It had the distinction of being the first fully "streamlined" ship, with exterior styling by industrial designer Raymond Loewy. The curved sheet metal surfaces were later removed as impractical. From the description of Plans of ferry Princess Anne, 1935-193...

Penn Steel Castings and Machine Company.

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Philadelphia Electric Company

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The Philadelphia Electric Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on October 31, 1929, as a merger of The Philadelphia Electric Company (incorporated in Pa. on October 27, 1902), the Philadelphia Suburban-Counties Gas & Electric Company, and three other small utility companies. It is the primary gas and electric company for Philadelphia, its surrounding counties and Cecil and Harford Counties in northeastern Maryland. After the invention of electric l...

Wetherill, Richard, b. 1850.

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Scovill Manufacturing Company

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Manufacturer of brass objects such as buttons and other fasteners, screws, parts for lamps, tools, etc. Located in Waterbury, Connecticut. Incorporated in 1850, but the business extended back at least until 1802. Among firms which became part of Scovill were Matthews and Willard, Schrader, Hamilton-Beach, American Pin, and Morency, Van Buren. From the description of Records, ca. 1790-1956 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 17266382 From the descripti...

Pusey and Jones Company

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United States. Navy Department

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Smith was a private citizen and donor to the "Eyes for the Navy" program. From the description of Memorandum, no date. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 708036591 From the description of Memorandum, September 30, 1918. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 708034981 From the description of Certificate, no date. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 708036793 The United States Navy operated a radio station with call sign NUG in Calumet, Michigan...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Wetherill, Robert, b. 1847.

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Thomson-Houston Electric Company

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Susquehanna Iron Company.

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