Notebook from the Paris office of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1936-1945.

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Notebook from the Paris office of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1936-1945.

Notebook, apparently kept by Frederick G. Singer of the Paris sales office of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in 1936-1937, containing mostly organization charts and lists of officers and products ot the DuPont Company and the Grasselli Chemical Company and also of the products of their competitors. The book also contains a printed table, "Shipments of Rubber from the Primary Markets and Restrictions Quotas," for the years 1934 through 1936. Inserted at the back of the book are scattered papers from the 31st National Foreign Trade Convention, the menu for a 1945 dinner in honor of Henri Bonnet, French ambassador to the U.S., and the National City Bank's confidential bulletin no. 339 (1944) containing a summary of currency exchange regulations between the U.S. and other countries of the Western Hemisphere.

1 vol.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8091077

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