Dupont Powder Print

[KCordell]

I have had this print in my family for I guess 40 or so years. Not sure where my father got it and he cant remember but said he thought it to be original, including it's frame and glass.

I have seen a few of these mostly smaller, copies. Is there any way to determine authenticity...I am just curious, not selling it.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn128/code337/BBC77C66-9389-4215-9BF9-C76D2358A702-8229-000005E7C4784AA7.jpg (http://s303.photobucket.com/user/code337/media/BBC77C66-9389-4215-9BF9-C76D2358A702-8229-000005E7C4784AA7.jpg.html)

[charlie cleveland]

my first time to get to see this print it sure is a nice one..charlie

[Dave Noreen]

It is not pictured in Firearms & Tackle Memorabilia by John Delph or either volume of American Sporting Advertising by Bob and Beverly Strauss.

[Robin Lewis]

I see on the bottom of the print that it is for Wapwallopen Mills. I did a quick search and found some interesting information. Some background on the mill....
http://www.pagenweb.org/~luzerne/dpmills.htm
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rich/wapwallopen/History.htm
Kind of cool how they built the buildings with a wall made to blow out to save the rest of the building.

here are a few pictures of the mill intermixed with others....
http://digital.hagley.org/cdm/search/collection/p268001coll4/searchterm/Wapwallopen,%20PA/field/all/mode/exact/conn/and/cosuppress/

And how it is used today.... watch the video!
http://demshitz.com/wapwallopen-creek/

If you have the time, look at all their advertising for a match, it is found here: http://digital.hagley.org/cdm/search/collection/p15017coll5/searchterm/tearsheets/order/nosort

[John Dallas]

DuPont's original mills (Hagley Mills) on the Brandywine River in Wilmington, Del. has the same design.

[Drew Hause]

The image is part of a DuPont company safety presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/ACSDCHAS/dupont-where-safety-is-a-condition-of-employment

http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL1373/6511424/17710152/410370298.jpg

[KCordell]

Thank guys for the feedback and interesting information...never would have found all that on my own.

[John Dallas]

DuPont was so concerned about, and so good at, safety, that they actually opened up a Safety Department that sold safety consulting services to other companies

[Rick Losey]

i worked for DuPont long ago- the safety concerns go back to the founding- the family lived next to the black powder plant to show they cared about the safety of the workers

as an employee you were asked to report not only accidents- but near misses- at work or home