Brrr!!! Winter weather has arrived on the grounds of Hagley Library. We're taking inspiration from this ca. 1955? photograph today and bundling up. This image shows a research team at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's Haskell Laboratory working in their "all weather room", where DuPont researchers studied body reactions at extremely high and low temperatures and experimented with clothing made from the company's synthetic textile fibers.
This photograph is from Hagley Library's collection of DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341). The DuPont Company created the Product Information section within the Public Relations department in 1952. Its function was to produce news releases with photographs about DuPont and its products for indirect publicity and advertising purposes.
This collection contains photographs of DuPont Company corporate events and proceedings, product trade shows and fairs, development and manufacturing processes, and the employees and facilities where the products were created. Most of the photographs were taken from the 1930s through the 1950s. This collection has not been digitized in its entirety, but you can view a selection of images online now. Just click here to visit its page in our Digital Archive.