W. W. Laird Collection of Graphic Materials and Family Movies 1994.316

W. W. Laird collection of graphic materials and family movies 1994.316

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Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical Note ...... 4 Scope and Content ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 6 Controlled Access Headings ...... 6 Collection Inventory ...... 6 Photographs ...... 6 Laird family ...... 7 du Pont family ...... 7 Brandywine Creek, powder yards ...... 8 Brandywine Springs Park ...... 8 Breck's Mill, Walker's Mill, Henry Clay village ...... 8 Bridges ...... 9 Buildings, Wilmington area ...... 9 Eleutherian Mills, First Office photographs ...... 10 Greenville/Kennett Pike ...... 10 Houses ...... 10 Houses, estates (du Pont family) photographs ...... 10 Miscellaneous (people, buildings) ...... 11 Miscellaneous ...... 11 Views from Rockford Tower ...... 12 Lantern slides ...... 12 Stereoviews ...... 15 Films ...... 15 Videos (VHS) ...... 18 Padle-a-Miow movies associated material ...... 18 Equipment ...... 19 Fortune Magazine ...... 20 Booklets ...... 20 Posters, World War I (French) ...... 21 Maps and blueprints ...... 21

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Summary Information

Repository: Audiovisual Collections Creator: Laird, W. W. (William Winder), 1910-1989 Title: W.W. Laird collection of graphic materials and family movies ID: 1994.316 Date [inclusive]: circa 1880-1975 Physical Description: 20 Linear Feet Physical Description: 141 photographic prints ; 14 x 11 in. or smaller; 2 photographic prints ; 10.5 x 106 in.; 1 photograph : ambrotype ; 2.5 x 3 in.; 1 photograph : cabinet photograph ; 6.5 x 4.25 in.; 4 photographic prints : stats ; 22.5 x 18 in. or smaller; 5 items : blueprints ; 146 x 105 cm. or smaller; 61 slides : lantern, many color ; 4 x 7 in. or smaller; 2 slides : lantern ; 4 x 10.25 in.; 7 transparencies : stereographs, glass ; 3.25 x 6.75 in.; 2 prints ; 28 x 43 cm. or smaller; 4 photomechanical prints (posters) : color ; 117 x 79.5 cm. or smaller; 1 album (53 photographic prints) ; 30 x 26 cm.; 1 portfolio (7 prints, 7 photographic prints) ; 20 x 25 cm.; 7 items; 1 reel (100 ft.) : si., col. ; 16 mm.; 17 reels (100 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.; 2 reels (200 ft.) : si., col. ; 16 mm.; 4 reels (200 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.; 2 reels (400 ft.) : si., col. ; 16 mm.; 27 reels (400 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.; 1 reel (800 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.; 9 reels (1600 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.; 10 reels (2000 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. and 6 videocassettes (VHS) Language of the English . Material: Abstract: William Winder 'Chick" Laird, Jr. (1910-1989) was a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and a financial advisor, starting his own brokerage firm in Wilmington, Delaware. This collection includes photographs of interiors and exteriors of du Pont family estates and homes in Delaware, as well as portraits and snapshots of du Pont and Laird family members. The collection also contains a large number of lantern slides, blueprints, maps, and film reels of home movies and family skits.

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Biographical Note

William Winder 'Chick" Laird, Jr. (1910-1989) was a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and a financial advisor, starting his own brokerage firm in Wilmington, Delaware. He was the son of William Winder Laird (1878-1927) and Mary Alletta Belin DuPont Laird (1878–1938). He had four siblings. His mother was great granddaughter of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont (1771-1834), founder of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. Her parents were Lammot du Pont (1831-1884) and Mary Belin du Pont (1839-1913). Mary Alletta Belin DuPont Laird was one of eleven children. Laird Jr. had many cousins, most of whom lived nearby on named estates in Delaware. Laird, Jr. spent many of his later years collecting local and Du Pont family history.

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Scope and Content

Many of the photographs in this collection are interiors and exteriors of du Pont family estates and homes in Delaware including Eleutherian Mills, Hagley House, Hagley, Rencourt, Granogue, Gibralter, the Charles Copeland house, Goodstay, Nemours, St. Amour, Owl's Nest, Pelleport, and the White Farm House. There are also interior views of the home of Lammot du Pont on Powelton Avenue in Philadelphia. Other photographs of local Wilmington, Delaware area buildings include the First Office of the DuPont Company; the Brandywine Manufacturers' Sunday School; Christ Church; the second Du Pont Company office; Sand Hole; Breck's Mill; Walker's Mill; the Delaware Trust Building; and the Brandywine Building, etc. There is one photograph of a building on Breck's Lane, identified as an old stable built by Alfred I. du Pont and later converted to two residences. There are also many photos of local bridges including New Bridge, Old New Bridge, Thompson's Bridge, and Van Buren St. Bridge. Other views include Brandywine Creek, Rockford Dam, the Du Pont Company powder yards on the Brandywine, Henry Clay village, Brandywine Springs Park, Brandywine Park, and the Greenville and Kennett Pike areas. Miscellaneous photographs include portraits and snapshots of du Pont and Laird family members; photographs from the presentation of the Legion of Honor to P.S. du Pont in 1954; group portraits of the "All Wilmington Band Festival," conducted by Arthur Pryor (1940), the "All Wilmington Chorus" (1940), and "The 'Tippecanoe' Harrison & Morton Club" (1888); and a birds-eye view print of lower Manhattan. There are also two large panoramic photographs taken from Rockford Tower, Wilmington, Delaware.

There is an album of photographs of the home of Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., located on Rising Sun Lane in Wilmington, Delaware, taken circa 1975. The house was once owned by Ire#ne#e Du Pont and was known as the Square House. Views include the driveway, exterior and interior views, and servants.

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The collection includes approximately 70 reels of 16mm black & white film. More than half of these films are skits and plays composed and performed by William W. "Chick" Laird and other children of the du Pont and related families in the 1920s and 1930s, referred to as "Padle-A-Miow" movies. These humorous dramas were filmed in and around various du Pont estates in Delaware along the Brandywine and often featured airplanes, automobiles, and boats. Other films are home movies of the following subjects: du Pont family homes including Windmar, Louviers, and Xanadu, the du Pont home in Cuba; trips to Mt. Rainier and Glacier Park; H.B. du Pont's airplane; and other miscellaneous subjects.

A group of motion picture equipment, including a movie camera, editing equipment, and a motion picture projector, accompanies this collection. Other materials relating to the "Padle-A-Miow" movies, such as artwork, captions, correspondence, and audiotape recordings (which were played during more recent showings of the films), are also with the collection.

There are also five copies of Fortune magazine from the 1930s, one of which contains an article on the DuPont Company.

Booklets in the collection include the following: a New Year's Eve booklet with a reproduction of the painting "Skating at Breck's Mill," by artist Richard Layton on the cover, circa 1964, and a note card with the same painting; a copy of a booklet entitled "To commemorate a dinner given to Col. Henry A. du Pont, November 10, 1915"; a reprint of that booklet, which was distributed as a New Year's gift by W.W. Laird in 1973; a booklet entitled "Du Pont de Nemours 1800-1950," printed in 1949 as a souvenir picture book for the one-hundred fiftieth anniversary of the du Pont family; and a portfolio entitled "The Brandywine: as sketched by the artist 1870, as snapped by the camera 1937." The portfolio contains images of local Wilmington area sites near the Brandywine River, including the Market Street Bridge and Lea's Mill; Ridele's Bank Mills; New Bridge; Rokeby, Breck's Mill and Hodgson's Mill; Upper dam, DuPont powder mills; and the paper mills, Rockland.

There are four large color posters from World War I France with patriotic images.

A number of blueprints and maps are also part of the collection, including two copies of a 1903/1889 map of DuPont Company Brandywine properties, by Robert Frazier; a photostat enlargement of a Brandywine Banks map, originally from an atlas; an insurance survey map of the Hagley property, owned by R. & A. Dawes (1797); a printed map of the Christ Church, Christiana Hundred area in Delaware as it was in 1856 by Richard Layton (1959); a blueprint of the Upper property with a plan of the water and electric lines, etc. (circa 1920); two blueprints showing a map of water pipes on Du Pont properties along the Brandywine, Water Department, Wilmington (1929); and two blueprints of the property map Brandywine Works (February 2, 1917). There is a hand-drawn map of the Greenville- Montchanin-Rockland area.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement Audiovisual Collections

PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library

Access Restrictions This collection is open for research.

Access to view lantern slides is at the discretion of the conservator. Please inquire in advance of your visit.

Existence and Location of Copies View selected items online in the Hagley Digital Archives.

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Controlled Access Headings

• Du Pont family -- Homes and haunts • Amateur films • Wilmington (Del.) • Du Pont family • Laird family • E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

Collection Inventory

Photographs

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Scope and Contents

Walker's Mill; the Delaware Trust Building; and the Brandywine Building, etc. There is one photograph of a building on Breck's Lane, identified as an old stable built by Alfred I. du Pont and later converted to two residences. There are also many photos of local bridges including New Bridge, Old New Bridge, Thompson's Bridge, and Van Buren St. Bridge. Other views include Brandywine Creek, Rockford Dam, the Du Pont Company powder yards on the Brandywine, Henry Clay village, Brandywine Springs Park, Brandywine Park, and the Greenville and Kennett Pike areas. Miscellaneous photographs include portraits and snapshots of du Pont and Laird family members; photographs from the presentation of the Legion of Honor to P.S. du Pont in 1954; group portraits of the "All Wilmington Band Festival," conducted by Arthur Pryor (1940), the "All Wilmington Chorus" (1940), and "The 'Tippecanoe' Harrison & Morton Club" (1888); and a birds-eye view print of lower Manhattan. There are also two large panoramic photographs taken from Rockford Tower, Wilmington, Delaware.

Laird family Title/Description Instances Winder, age 4 years, 1882 April box 21

Portrait of William Winder Laird, 1897 December box 21

Portrait of the Laird twins -later Mrs. David Craven and Mrs. box 21 Ellice McDonald, Jr., circa 1916

Portrait of Molly Laird as a small child box 21

Poem written about Molly Laird as seen in the above photograph box 21

Mr. And Mrs. Ellason Downs [Molly Laird] at a costume party box 21 at Windmar, 1937 November

Portrait of Miss Molly Laird, circa 1925 box 21

Portrait of Miss Molly Laird, circa 1930 box 21

Mary Belin du Pont with her granddaughter Mary Belin Laird box 21

Miss Molly Laird, wearing the dress of her great-grandmother box 21 Mrs. A.V. du Pont, circa 1917

Miss Mary Laird, wearing the dress she wore at the coronation box 21 of the King of Sikkim

du Pont family Title/Description Instances Portrait of Mary A. B. du Pont (Laird) "Columbia", 1898 box 21 October 25

Portrait of Mary du Pont (Laird), circa 1900 box 21

Portrait of Alexis du Pont box 21

Cousin Evelina du Pont box 21

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Alexis du Pont standing next to a painting of his great box 21 grandfather Alexis du Pont

Portrait of Alexis du Pont box 21

Irénée du Pont, Margaretta du Pont Carpenter, P.S. du Pont, box 21 Pierre Donzelet (French Cultural Attaché), presentation of Legion of Honor to P.S. du Pont, 1954 April 3

P.S. du Pont, Pierre Donzelet (French Cultural Attaché), box 21 presentation of Legion of Honor to P.S. du Pont, 1954 April 3

Brandywine Creek, powder yards Title/Description Instances Aerial: Old powder yard, 1951 January box 1

Brandywine Creek, Upper Powder Yard box 1

Rockford Dam, at Bancroft Mills box 1

Somewhere on the Brandywine box 1

View from Iron Bridge box 1

Refinery from Iron Bridge, after explosion, stones from press box 1 room to left, 1882 Summer

Gravity[?] house, Upper Yard , 1894 box 1

Piles of willow wood stacked at up-stream end of Eleutherian box 1 Mills yard

Eagle Spring, on west side of Brandywine below the Iron Bridge box 1

Brandywine Springs Park Title/Description Instances Brandywine Park, circa 1900 box 1

Brandywine Springs, circa 1900 box 1

Pump– Brandywine Park [with 3 adults, 2 children], circa 1900 box 1

Barley Mill Dam, Brandywine Park, Wilmington, Del. , circa box 1 1900

Breck's Mill, Walker's Mill, Henry Clay village Title/Description Instances Breck's Mill, circa 1950 box 1

Breck's Mill, 1967 box 1

Panoramic of Henry Clay Village, circa 1920 box 1

Clearing for parking lot extension Breck's Mill, 1954 October box 1

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Brandywine near Walker's Mill frozen with snow, 1956 January box 1 3

Walker's Mill in the snow, 1956 January 3 box 1

Bridges Title/Description Instances New Bridge, 1959 November 5 box 1

Old New Bridge, Breck's Mill, Hodgson's Mil box 1

Old New Bridge, circa 1910 box 1

View of old New Bridge with Breck's Mill and Walker's Mill in box 1 background

Aerial: Thompson's Bridge, 1951 January box 1

Thompson's Bridge box 1

Van Buren St. Bridge during construction, circa 1900 box 1

Washington Street Bridge– Bridge built 1902 box 1

Bridge over the Brandywine box 1

Breck's Mill with old New bridge in foreground box 1

Buildings, Wilmington area Title/Description Instances Worker's housing at Hagley, 1883 October box 1

Brandywine Manufacturers' Sunday School box 1

Christ Church, Christiana Hundred, 1951 box 1

Christ Church Sunday School box 1

The 2d Du Pont office/ Sand Hole box 1

Wilmington Country Club, Wilmington, Del. Destroyed January box 1 12, 1924

Delaware Trust Building, Wilmington, Del. box 1

Delaware Trust Building (Wilmington, Del.) box 1

Brandywine Building under construction (Wilmington, Del.), box 1 1969 October

Sterling's (Hunter's) Corner, Election Day, 1898 box 1

The yellow school house at Montchanin Road & Barley Mill Rd. box 1

Old paper mill in Beaver Valley...Burned by vandals about 1930 box 1

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House beside the stone grist mill at Rockland box 1

Eleutherian Mills, First Office photographs Title/Description Instances Photograph of Eleutherian Mills residence box 1

Eleutherian Mills residence exterior box 1

Eleutherian Mills box 1

"Old du Pont Powder Co. office at Eleutherian Mills, Del." box 1

Du Pont Company First Office box 1

"The original office of Du Pont Co." box 1

Greenville/Kennett Pike Title/Description Instances Unidentified dirt road, possibly the Kennett Pike at Greenville box 1

Wreck of Reading Railroad behind what is now Monroe Park box 1 just south of Greenville, 1886 October 27

Rail Road cutting back of Breck's Lane from Kennett Pike to box 1 Rising Sun

Site of Buck Tavern, 1978 November box 1

Houses Title/Description Instances White farm house (Pierre S. du Pont/ Essie Weir) box 1

White Farm House in Brandywine below Rockland, Del. box 1

Aerial: White Farm House below Rockland, 1951 January box 1

Burning the old Flynn [Frank V. Flinn?] house – "Green box 1 Mansion" Buck Road & Kennett Pike, 1961 June

Burning the old Flynn [Frank V. Flinn?] house– Buck Road & box 1 Kennett Pike , 1961 June

Album, home of Walter Samuel Carpenter, Jr., located on Rising Sun Lane, Wilmington, Del., originally known as the "Square House", circa 1975

Houses, estates (du Pont family) photographs Title/Description Instances Hagley House box 1

"Hagley [exterior of house]" box 1

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Stable and laboratory building at Hagley. Lab built by Francis box 1 G. du Pont

Rencourt, home of Alexis I. Du Pont box 1

Living room of Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. home of box 1 Lammot du Pont

Den at Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. home of Lammot du box 1 Pont, before 1890

Granogue, home of Irénée du Pont box 1

Granogue, exterior box 1

Gibralter exterior box 1

Aerial photograph: Granogue, 1951 January box 1

Charles Copeland house (Wilmington, Del.) box 1

Goodstay, circa 1900 box 1

Garden at Goodstay, circa 1900 box 1

Outbuildings behind Goodstay box 1

Nemours on the Brandywine Grandmother's house before she box 1 moved to Goodstay which was after Uncle Lammot's marriage

summer house at St. Amour, Rising Sun Lane, circa 1900 box 1

Mary Alletta Belin du Pont and Isabella Matthieu du Pont on box 1 horseback with companions in front of St. Amour stable

The Bear at St. Amour box 1

People on porch of St. Amour box 1

Exterior views of Owl's Nest (homevof Eugene du Pont, later box 1 Greenville Country Club) and Pellepor

Miscellaneous (people, buildings) Title/Description Instances Group portrait of men in an office. "Shot in the old box 21 Experimental Building at the foot of Breck's Lane"

St. Amour, circa 1950 box 21

"Old stable on Breck's Lane formerly built by Alfred I. du Pont box 21 for the swamp hall operation. After Alfred I. moved to Nemours, the building was converted to two residences known as 186 and 188 Breck's Lane."

Salisbury cathedral, circa 1925 box 21

portrait of Houdin de La Motte box 21

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Title/Description Instances Possibly Alfred Victor and Margaretta du Pont box 1

3 women in front of a locomotive box 1

2 children, one in a wicker stroller box 1

Louisa Belin, sister of Mary Belin du Pont [accompanied by a box 1 letter from P.S. du Pont]

All Wilmington Band Festival, Arthur Pryor conductor [view of box 1 band on stage with conductor], 1940

All Wilmington Chorus, 1940 box 1

Trolley of the type which ran from Wilmington to Wagoners box 1 Row. Scene of the "Bad Newsers."

The 'Tippecanoe' Harrison & Morton Club/ of Du Pont's Banks,/ box 1 Going to Brandywine Springs, Del., 1888 Septeber 27

Lyon Cafeteria in Palm Beach, Florida box 1

Birds-eye view of New York showing lower Manhattan, 1911 box 1

Hand-drawn map of Greenville-Montchanin-Rockland area box 1

Views from Rockford Tower Title/Description Instances Panorama photographs from Rockford Tower, 1953 February 16 box 1

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Lantern slides Scope and Contents

The collection also contains a large number of lantern slides, most with wood mounts and captions, two of which are panoramic. The subjects include reproductions of paintings and other art; foreign views; American Civil War scenes; nursery rhymes; and humorous illustrations. Four of the slides are of Henry Clay Village, Delaware (circa 1900), one showing Rockford Tower under construction.

Title/Description Instances Red box 2

Interesting Pictures Corfu box 2

Selected Pictures — A Russian Sledge box 2

56. Young Steer, by Rosa Bonheur box 2

9. The little harvesters, by Lanfant de Metz box 2

3. The lazy little girl, by H. Alois box 2

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Dissolving[?] Views — The Destruction of Pompei box 2

Fire box 2

2. American Civil War. Fort Sumter before the bombardment box 2

Selected Pictures — Innocents Abroad box 3

Good night box 3

62. The little pets box 3

Independent Monkey box 3

Windy Day box 3

11. Limier Briquet Hound, by Rosa Bonheur box 3

83. Ariadne and the Tiger box 3

8. The Brothers, by C. L. Vogel box 3

116. The ill-fated ship, in 6 pictures: 2.—The Ship sailing with box 3 fair wind

117. The ill-fated ship, in 6 pictures: 3.—The commencement of a box 4 storm

118. The ill-fated ship, in 6 pictures: 4.—The high of the storm box 4

21. Out for a walk, by Trabner box 4

18. The penman in trouble, by Mayall box 4

Winter box 4

4. Morning, by Thorwaldsen box 4

5. Night, by Thorwaldsen box 4

49. The Four Seasons, by Thorwaldsen box 4

50. The Four Seasons, by Thorwaldsen. 2—Summer

51. The Four Seasons, by Thorwaldsen. 3—Autumn box 4

Cook & pig's head box 5

Selected Pictures, "Here they come!" –Hounds on the scent box 5

20. The Race, by Bernard box 5

American Civil War: 660. Capture of Chattanooga — box 5 Rosencranz's Army crossing the Tennessee River to occupy the town

121. American eagle box 5

8. Jephthah's Daughter box 5

Unintelligible: fight with swords on horseback box 5

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Blue box 5

Ancient custom — Painting Eyebrows box 7

The Dance of the Veil, Richter box 7

Six minutes with a mule [first minute] box 7

Six minutes with a mule [second minute] box 7

Six minutes with a mule [third minute] box 7

Six minutes with a mule [fourth minute] box 7

Six minutes with a mule [fifth minute] box 7

Six minutes with a mule [sixth minute] box 7

Don't, Tommy, don't box 7

The Little Brother – Meyer von Bien[?] box 7

R. P. Murray, [child with kittens] box 7

unidentified: looks like Buckingham Palace, changing of the guard box 7 or other pageantry

Unidentified battle scene from Illustrated London news box 7

Henry Clay Village, circa 1900 box 8

Henry Clay Village showing Rockford Tower under construction, box 8 circa 1900

Henry Clay Village, circa 1900 box 8

No. 11 Old woman went up in a basket [Williams, Brown & box 8 Earle]

Hey diddle, diddle box 8

No.14 Mother Goose [Williams, Brown & Earle] box 8

Old woman who lived in a shoe – "Nursery Rhymes" box 8

Sing a Song of Six pence [Williams, Brown & Earle, Inc.] box 8

Little Red Riding Hood box 8

No. 12 The fox came to the farmer's gate [Williams, Brown & box 8 Earle]

1 slide changer box 9

Panorama: 3. Washington Crossing the Delaware. [manufactured box 9 by C. T. Milligan]

Panorama: Label worn off, Cleopatra on a boat? box 9

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Stereoviews Scope and Contents

There are seven glass stereographs of views in Germany and France.

Title/Description Instances 407. Le Port de Neuchatel, vu du can. Du Sayon box 6

Pont de bateause a Mayenee – Allemagne box 6

49. Palais de l'Industrie box 6

18. Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile box 6

173. Le Bassin de Latone, parc de Versailles box 6

374. Perspective du grand Pont de Fribourg box 6

No. 151 – Statue de Guttenberg a Moyenee – Allemagne box 6

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Films Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances Piece of plate glass "for titler," wrapped in brown paper box 10

The Olympiad Canto II –original box 10

March Weather box 10

Foreign Entanglements box 10

The Vicious Circles, 1932 Original box 10

March Weather 1931 Duplicate #6 box 10

A Scramble of Eggs 1927 origina box 10

A Scramble of Eggs & The Olympiad Canto I box 10

Canto II duplicate box 10

Empty plastic film can and 1600' plastic reel (labeled "Foreign box 11 Entanglements, 1929, duplicate 1981")

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New Castle County Beauty Contest, 1928 (dup. 1985), The Last of box 11 the Lecky Races, 1928 (dup. 1985), Xerxes, 1931

Slippery Pears, 1928, 50 minutes box 11

Veni, Vidi, Vindbag original edition box 11 condition note

[NOTE: BADLY ROTTING AWAY. DO NOT SAVE. 12/1/94]

Xerxes orig. 1931 box 11

General Motors 1928 (dup. 1985), P.S. du Pont Expedition 1929 box 11 (dup.) 1985, Foreign Entanglements 1929 (dup. 1985)

Empty film can 2000', labeled "The Olympiad Canto II original box 11 1931, duplicated 2/1987"

The Olympiad Cantos I and II 1930 and 1931 dup. to be made box 11

The Olympiad Canto III 1932, dup. to be made box 11 condition note

[NOTE: FILM BADLY DETERIORATING–NEED TO EXAMINE CAREFULLY 12/1/94]

New Year Movie 1984: The Hunney-Teeny Prize Fight, The box 11 Vicious Circles, Slippery Pears

Glacier Park I box 12

Glacier Park II box 12

Xanadu 1931 & 1932 box 12 Scope and Content

This film has been digitized [ID: FILM_1994316_FC40].

Xanadu Excerpts 1931 to 1933 (reel one) box 12 Scope and Content

This film has been digitized [ID: FILM_1994316_FC42].

Xanadu Excerpts 1931 to 1933 (reel two) box 12

Xanadu 1933 box 12

Excerpts not spliced 1926-1929 box 12

Mt. Rainier 29 box 12

Mt. Rainier 1930, part one box 12

Mt. Rainier 1930, part two box 12

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Mt. Rainier 1930 I box 12

Mt. Rainier 1930 II box 12

Beauty Contest 1928 box 13

Gen. Weeza 1928 box 13

Prof Loony box 13

P. S. du P. in Hagley DI 1927 box 13

News 1928 box 13

Helpful Hints to Mothers, Series I, P.A.M. 1929 box 13

P. S. du Pont Ex. Orig. Ed. 1928 box 13

Lecky Race 1928 box 13

General Motors 1927 box 13

Boca Grande color 1929 box 13

Prize Fight 1928 box 13

Dr. Einstein 1931 box 13

Mt. Rainier color 1929 box 13

No title box 13

Black leader box 13

Xanadu titles 1931 box 13

Innauguration (sic) Boca Grande 1929 box 13

Unidentified box 13

Laird Clan, 1928-1932 box 14

The Umgobble box 14

Windmar, 1926-1927 box 14

Windmar, 1929 box 14

Windmar Jan. 26 box 14

Windmar Jul. 27, Jul. 28 box 14

Louviers 1927 to 1933 box 14

Windmar color, 1929 box 14

H.B. du Pont aeroplane, 1928 box 14

Clarence Chamberlain, 2917 box 14

Laird Stabler's kids summer, 1933 box 14

Saunderstown, 1928 August box 14

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S of E, I, DI [A Scramble of Eggs] box 15

S of E, II, DI [A Scramble of Eggs] box 15

S of E, III, DI [A Scramble of Eggs] box 15

S of E, IV, DI [A Scramble of Eggs] box 15

F. E. I, DI, [Foreign Entanglements] box 15

F. E. 2, DI, [Foreign Entanglements] box 15

F. E. 3, DI, [Foreign Entanglements] box 15

F. E. 4, DI, [Foreign Entanglements] box 15

S. P. I, D2, [Slippery Pears] box 15

S. P. II, D2, [Slippery Pears] box 15

S. P. III, D2, [Slippery Pears] box 15

S. P. IV, D2, [Slippery Pears] box 15

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Videos (VHS) Title/Description Instances March Weather (45 minutes); General Motors; P.S. du Pont box 11 Expedition; Foreign Entanglements

New Castle County Beauty Contest; The Last of the Lecky Races; box 11 Xerxes; The Hunney-Teeny Prize Fight; Vicious Circles; Slippery Pears Physical Description: This video has been digitized [ID: 72308_NHK___XERXES_JPEG2000].

Scramble of Eggs; Olympiad-Canto 1; Olympiad-Canto 2; The box 11 Umgobble

Padle-a-Miow movies box 11

Veni Vidi Vindbag box 12

Foreign Entanglements, from 16 mm silent film, circa 1927 box 12

The Umgobble box 14

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Padle-a-Miow movies associated material

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Scope and Contents

Other materials relating to the "Padle-A-Miow" movies, such as artwork, captions, correspondence, and audiotape recordings (which were played during more recent showings of the films), are also with the collection.

Title/Description Instances Chick Laird to Doris du Pont, 1930 May 121930 May 251930 box 1 June 3 Scope and Contents

Regarding Padle-A-Miow film.

December 1985 Piano Rags by Scott Joplin played by Joshua box 12 Rifkin –Music for Padle-a-Miow movies

Music for the 1986 New Year's Padle-a-Miow Movies...popular box 12 dance music of the 1920s, 1986 November 19

Artwork and programs box 16

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Equipment Scope and Contents

A group of motion picture equipment, including a movie camera, editing equipment, and a motion picture projector, accompanies this collection.

Title/Description Instances Bell & Howell 16mm movie camera, model 70-A, in carrying box 17 case, 4 unopened rolls of film from circa 1971, 2 extra lenses, filter, oil can, and instruction manual.

Bell & Howell Filmo projector 57-JS 16mm motion picture shelf JJ3-4 projector in case

Bell & Howell Character Title Writer, in carrying case, with shelf JJ6-3 instructions

Craig "Pro" movie editing equipment ensemble box 18

Quixet magnetic titler, deluxe white 5/8 box 16

2 GE Lightbulbs, DPT 1000 watts (for flood lights) box 12

2 movie flood lights, Halldorson Co., Chicago, in cases shelf JJ3-2

2 stands for flood lights shelf JJ3-2

Miscellaneous equipment for the Craig "Pro" movie editor box 18

Miscellaneous lenses, bulbs, filters, camera reels, accessories, etc. box 19 for movie projector

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Fortune Magazine Scope and Contents

There are also five copies of Fortune magazine from the 1930s, one of which contains an article on the DuPont Company.

Title/Description Instances Volume XI, Number 1, 1935 January box 20 Scope and Contents

Includes an article on the DuPont Company.

Volume XV, Number 2, 1937 February box 20

Volume XVIII, Number 6, 1938 December box 20

Volume XIX, Number 2, 1939 February box 20

Volume XIX, Number 3, 1939 March box 20

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Booklets Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances New Year's Eve booklet: cover painting "Skating at Breck's Mill," box 1 artist Richard Layton; inside "A Short History of Breck's Mill," by Charles A. Silliman, circa 1964

Note card with above painting, note inside written by artist box 1 Richard Layton, 1964 April 13

2 booklets: "To commemorate a dinner given to Col. Henry A. du box 1 Pont", 1915 November 10

Du Pont de Nemours 1800-1950, 1949 box 21

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The Brandywine: As sketched by the artist 1870, As snapped by box 21 the camera 1937

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Posters, World War I (French) Scope and Contents

There are four large color posters from World War I France with patriotic images.

Title/Description Instances "Journeé de l'Armée d'Afrique et des Troupes Coloniales" drawer AA-8

"3e. Emprunt de la Défense Nationale Crédit Lyonnais" drawer AA-8

"Chemins de fer de l'état et de Brighton..." drawer AA-8

"Emprunt de la Libération/ On les a/ Souscrivez á la" drawer AA-8

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Maps and blueprints Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances 1903/1889 map of Du Pont Company Brandywine properties, by drawer Robt. Frazier AA-14

Brandywine Banks, Christiana & Brandywine, New Castle, Del.; drawer from an atlas, undated AA-14

Insurance survey map of "Hagley on the banks of the Brandywine, drawer State of Delaware, Belonging to R & A Dawes", 1797 AA-14

Printed map of Christ Church, Christiana Hundred area in 1856 drawer AA-14

Blueprint of the Upper property (Hagley) with a plan of the water drawer and electric lines, etc, circa 1920 AA-14

water pipes on Du Pont properties along the Brandywine, Water drawer Dept., Wilmington, Del., 1929 AA-14 - Page 21- W. W. Laird collection of graphic materials and family movies 1994.316

General

2 copies. 1 blueprint and 1 positive blueprint.

Blueprints of the property map of Brandywine Works, 1917 drawer February 2 AA-14 General

2 items. with parcels when sold off.

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