Business records
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
DURIRON Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-251
Abstract
The DURIRON Corporation was founded in 1912 by Dayton foundry man, Pierce D. Schenk, and two associates, J. Richman Pitman, a DuPont explosives production engineer, and William F. Hall, a New York Financier. The company derives its name from a high silicon cast iron alloy, DURIRON, which rapidly became an industry standard for handling extremely corrosive materials. Their records consist of administrative records, sales records, manuals, newsletters, photographs, negatives, and...
Dates:
1912-1996
Found in:
Special Collections
