The records of the Atlas Powder Company and predecessors, 1868-1958. (bulk, 1912-1958).

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Atlas Powder Company. The records of the Atlas Powder Company and predecessors, 1868-1958. (bulk, 1912-1958).

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The records of the Atlas Powder Company and predecessors, 1868-1958. (bulk, 1912-1958).

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The Atlas Powder Company records include board of director and executive committee minutes and reports documenting long-term strategic planning as well as current operations. Departmental reports describe research and development efforts, major construction projects, personnel policies, relations with competing firms, government contracts, and financial performance. Minutes of defunct subsidiary and predecessor companies are also included. Correspondece and reports include those of T.J. Power, head of the Leather Cloth & Lacquers Division, of the Darco Sales Corporation, and a notebook of Dr. Jones of the Zapon Company containing a history of the lacquer and leather cloth busiess. The collection also includes reports from E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's Eastern Laboratory and Wilmington Experimental Station (1909-1926) and minutes of the High Explosives Operating Department superintendents' meetings (1909-1910). Pre-Atlas historical materials are mostly from the Giant Powder Company, including its negotiations with Alfred Nobel and a suit arising from an explosion in the Sutro Tunnel in 1877.

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104 linear ft.

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Hagley Museum & Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8200391

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