Powder line notebook, 1918-1923.

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Powder line notebook, 1918-1923.

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The volume contains typed carbon copies of notices and bulletins sent from Hanley's office covering company policies and procedures, especially relating to accounting and invoices. There are also some production statistics, including daily breakdowns of the amount of "B" blasting powder packed at each of the Atlas plants, and a portrait photograph of Hanley.

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Hagley Museum & Library

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Hagley Museum & Library

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Hanley, James P., ca. 1881-1958

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James P. Hanley was born around 1881 and originally worked in the High Explosives Operating Department of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. When DuPont was split up in 1912, Hanley went with the spun-off Atlas Powder Company. In 1918, he was Office Manager at Philadelphia, and by 1920 had been promoted to Director of the Records Division. James P. Hanley died in Weston, Conn., on June 26, 1958, at age 77. From the description of Powder line notebook, 1918-1923. (Hagley Museum &a...

Giant Powder Company of Canada Limited.

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Atlas Powder Company

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The mines of Michigan's Copper Country were generally self-reliant; however, there were at least three things they could not find along the Keweenaw Peninsula - coal, iron and explosives. These items were transported, often at great expense, to Michigan from elsewhere. In an attempt to lower these costs, the controlling interests of the Tamarack and Osceola Mines, and later Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Company invested in the area's first explosives plant at Woodside in 1884. When thi...