As we reported last month in the Collection and Research News, the library recently launched a new Digital Archives platform. While we were busy migrating a huge amount of content to the new site, we built up a backlog of new digitized material that we are now putting online. Below are brief descriptions and links to collections that we added since launching the new site last month.
Saltpeter refinery from the John W. Macklem collection of DuPont Company powder yards photographs
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DuPont Company films and commercials:
The content of this digital collection is only a small selection from our vast holdings of DuPont Company moving picture material. We plan to add to this collection as time and resources allow in the coming months and years. Highlights of the collection includes early commercials from the Cavalcade of America, a television show sponsored by DuPont, including this gem about a ‘Deep Freeze Suit’ made using DuPont materials.
John W. Macklem collection of DuPont Company powder yards photographs:
The AVD Department holds thousands of images of the grounds comprising the former DuPont Company Powder Yards in Delaware. However, we have relatively few images showing the yards between the time when it closed as an operating mill in 1921 to its rebirth as a museum. The Macklem collection includes a significant set of photographs primarily taken in the mid-1920s after the powder yards closed. The namesake of the collection was a former DuPont employee who made handwritten descriptive notes on the backs of most of the photographs. The images and Macklem’s notes are included in the digital collection.
Joseph T. Richard records on Pennsylvania Railroad:
This collection includes a small portfolio of documents from civil engineer Joseph T. Richards who participated in the construction of Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Richards chaired committees of Pennsylvania Railroad operating officers that set the operating parameters for the design of the iconic station.
New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad album:
The title of the collection is taken from the cover of the album but it is a bit misleading. While a few images in the album document the tunnel extension, the real value of the album is some of the earliest known images of the interior and exterior of Pennsylvania Railroad Station soon after its completion in 1910.
Berkshire Knitting Mills photograph album:
The album includes seventy images documenting the operations and infrastructure of the full fashioned knitting mill in Reading, PA. The photographs cover a period from 1908 to 1925.
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