Manufacturing industries -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
James Parrish Inland Collection (MS-696)
Collection
Identifier: MS-696
Scope and Contents
The James Parrish Inland Collection contains general history materials (written histories, chronologies, etc.); administrative materials (directories, organizational charts, handbooks, etc.); newsletters, including many issues of "The Inlander"; reports, mostly describing technical details or testing results; product catalogs; photographs of buildings and facilities, people, and products; and memorabilia (small items such as patches, pins, etc.).Individual series and subseries...
Dates:
1935 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
Found in:
Special Collections
