S. Hallock du Pont collection of du Pont family photographs 1975.280
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Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library S. Hallock du Pont collection of du Pont family photographs 1975.280
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Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical Note ...... 3 Scope and Content ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 4 Controlled Access Headings ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5 Buildings ...... 5 DuPont Powder Yards ...... 6 Brandywine Creek ...... 6 People ...... 7 World's Fair, Chicago ...... 8 Unidentified ...... 8 Oversize ...... 8
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Summary Information
Repository: Audiovisual Collections Creator - col: Du Pont, S. Hallock (Samuel Hallock), 1901-1974 Title: S. Hallock du Pont collection of du Pont family photographs ID: 1975.280 Date [inclusive]: 1883-1913 Physical Description: 73 item(s) General Physical 66 photographic prints : b&w ; 3.5 x 4.5 in., 5 photographic Description: prints : b&w ; 6 x 8 in., 1 photographic print : b&w ; 11 x 14 in., 1 photographic print : b&w ; 10 x 82 in. and 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: Lammot du Pont (1831-1884) was a chemist and inventor, he was the grandson of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont (1771-1834), founder of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, more commonly known as the DuPont Company. This collection contains photographs of Brandywine, Hagley area, and the family of Lammot du Pont and Mary Belin du Pont (1839-1913).
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Biographical Note
Lammot du Pont (1831-1884) was a chemist and inventor, he was the grandson of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont (1771-1834), founder of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, more commonly known as the DuPont Company. The DuPont Company was a chemical company which began with the production of gunpowder. Lammot du Pont invented B blasting powder, using Chilean sodium nitrate instead of the previously used potassium nitrate (saltpeter) from India. In 1879, he resigned from the DuPont Company and formed the Repauno Chemical Company to manufacture high explosives.
Lammot du Pont married Mary Belin du Pont (1839-1913) in 1865. The couple had eleven children. The family moved from the Brandywine to Philadelphia and lived at 3500 Powelton Avenue. Lammot du Pont died in an explosion on March 29, 1884. In 1892, Mary Belin du Pont had a family home built called Saint Amour in Wilmington, Delaware.
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S. Hallock du Pont (1901-1974) is the grandchild of Lammot du Pont and Mary Belin du Pont. Their sixth child, William Kemble du Pont (1874-1907) was his father and his mother was Ethel Fleet Hallock (1876-1951). The couple married in 1899 and had three children.
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Scope and Content
This collection consists of seventy-three photographs, mostly related to the Brandywine Valley area and the du Pont family. The Brandywine Creek and the Hagley Powder Yards are pictured, as well as the DuPont Company Second Office, Christ Church, Goodstay, Eleutherian Mills, St. Amour, Upper Louviers, Lower Louviers, Nemours, Hagley House, and Lammot du Pont's Philadelphia home at 3500 Powelton Avenue. There is also an oversized photograph of the DuPont Company's powder wagon and a panorama of the Tower Hill School and Henry Clay Village area. Individual du Pont family members pictured include Lammot du Pont's aunt Emma Paulina du Pont (1827-1914), Mary Belin du Pont's nieces, Mary "May" Lammot Belin Robertson (1869-1949), and Alice Belin du Pont (1872-1944); and several of Lammot and Mary Belin du Pont's children: Louisa d'Andelot du Pont (1868-1926), Pierre Samuel du Pont (1870-1954), Sophie Madeleine (1871-1894), Henry Belin du Pont (1873-1902), William Kemble du Pont (1874-1907), Irenee du Pont (1876-1963), Mary Alletta Belin (1878-1938), Isabella Mathieu du Pont (1882-1946), Margaretta Lammot du Pont (1884-1973), and Lammot du Pont (1880-1952).
In addition, there are several photographs of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 showing exterior views of the Johore Bungalow, as well as the State Buildings of Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Kentucky.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Audiovisual Collections
PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library
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Access Restrictions This collection is open for research.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Du Pont family -- Homes and haunts • Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) • Group portraits • Du Pont family • E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Collection Inventory
Buildings Title/Description Instances Goodstay, Wilmington, Delaware, undated box 1 folder 1
Eleutherian Mills, circa 1882 box 1 folder 2
Upper Louviers, undated box 1 folder 3
Lower Louviers, undated box 1 folder 4
St. Amour, undated box 1 folder 5
Nemours, undated box 1 folder 6
Nemours, 1885 box 1 folder 7
Garden house at Nemours, undated box 1 folder 8
Garden fountain at Nemours, circa 1882 box 1 folder 9
Unidentified fountain, undated box 1 folder 10-11
Du Pont Company Second Office Building, undated box 1 folder 12-13
Shed behind Du Pont Company Second Office Building, undated box 1 folder 14-15
Unidentified small building, undated box 1 folder 16
Christ Church, Greenville, Delaware, undated box 1 folder 17
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3500 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, home of box 1 folder 18 Lammot du Pont , undated
Interior, room of Mrs. Lammont du Pont at 3500 Powelton box 1 folder 19 Avenue home, 1885
Unidentified interior, undated box 1 folder 20-21
Unidentified yard, undated box 1 folder 22
Unidentified shed, undated box 1 folder 23
Lammont du Pont home at 3500 Powelton Avenue, undated box 1 folder 24
Old Powel Mansion at SE corner of 35th and Powelton Avenue, box 1 folder 25 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, undated
Goodstay, Wilmington, Delaware, undated box 1 folder 26
Hagley House, undated box 1 folder 27
St. Amour, undated box 1 folder 28
Interior of parlor in St. Amour, undated box 1 folder 29
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DuPont Powder Yards Title/Description Instances View of Upper Yard from Iron Bridge, Inc. Saltpetre Refinery, box 1 folder 30 undated
Specific Gravity House, Eleutherian Mills Yard, undated box 1 folder 31
Charles' Bank (row of houses) on Brandywine Creek at Louviers, box 1 folder 32 eopposite powder yards, undated
Gunpowder Magazine, undated box 1 folder 33
Suspension bridge and dam at Eleutherian Mills, undated box 1 folder 34
Iron bridge to Louviers and Eagle Mill from Upper Yard, undated box 1 folder 35
Inside enterance area to Lower Yard, undated box 1 folder 36
Unidentifed large rock and roadway, undated box 1 folder 37
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Brandywine Creek Title/Description Instances Looking down the brandywine from the top of Hagley House, box 1 folder 38 1885
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Dauphin's Run, undated box 1 folder 39
Unidentified creek, possibly the Brandywine, undated box 1 folder 40-41
Eagle Spring on Brandywine Hundred side of creek between box 1 folder 42 Louviers and Young's House, circa 1885
Sandy Bottom swimming place oppositee old dry house in Hagley box 1 folder 43 Upper Yard, undated
Brandywine Creek looking down from above Upper Yard, circa box 1 folder 44 1882
Brandywine Creek, undated box 1 folder 45
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People Title/Description Instances Lammot, Irenee, Mary A.B. and Margaretta L. du Pont, circa 1887 box 1 folder 46
William K., Lammot, Irenee, Mary A.B., Isabella M., Henry B. box 1 folder 47 du Pont and J. Crowell on back porch of 3500 Powelton Avenue home, circa 1886
Henry B., William K., Irenee, Lammot, Mary A.B. and Isabella du box 1 folder 48 Pont and J. Crowell, circa 1886
Alice and May Belin, Isabella M., Sophie M., Lammot and Mary box 1 folder 49 A.B. du Pont, circa 1885
Isabella M. and Margaretta L. du Pont, circa 1887 box 1 folder 50
Pierre S. du Pont and Charles Lennig, circa 1885 box 1 folder 51
Pierre S. and Emma Paulina du Pont and Eleanora Churchman on box 1 folder 52 veranda at Goodstay, circa 1891
Pierre S. and Louise du Pont and others at Cape May, New Jersey, box 1 folder 53 1887
Louisa d'A., Margaretta L., William K., Mary Belin, Sophie M. du box 1 folder 54 Pont and Eddie Lewis at Cape May, New Jersey, 1888
Group of five unidentified girls, circa 1888 box 1 folder 55-56
Louisa d'A. du Pont and three others at Dauphin's Run, undated box 1 folder 57
Pierre S., Lammot, Henry B., Irenee, Margaretta L., William K. box 1 folder 58 du Pont, Edward G. Mercer and Minnie Foggini standing in front of the children's play house behind 3500 Powelton Avenue home, circa 1890
Group portrait of children and widow of Lammot du Pont, circa box 1 folder 59 1894
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World's Fair, Chicago, 1893 Title/Description Instances Johore Bungalow on the Midway, 1893 box 1 folder 60
Virginia State Building, 1893 box 1 folder 61
South Dakota State Building, 1893 box 1 folder 62
North Dakota State Building, 1893 box 1 folder 63
Minnesota State Building, 1893 box 1 folder 64
Kentucky State Building, 1893 box 1 folder 65
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Unidentified Title/Description Instances Beach, undated box 1 folder 66
Store interior, undated box 1 folder 67
Landscape with buildings, railroad tracks and men on horses, box 1 folder 68 undated
Unidentified buildings, undated box 1 folder 69-70
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Oversize Title/Description Instances Panorama from Rockford Tower site showing Kennett Pike, box DF 18 folder 72 Tower Hill School area, St. Amour, and Henry Clay Village, undated
DuPont Powder Wagon on way to Perry Centennial, Erie, box DF 18 folder 73 Pennsylvania, 1913
Covered bridge, possibly Smith's Bridge, undated box DF 18 folder 74
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