Joseph Bancroft & Sons
Date: 1867-1971
Collection Abstract: Joseph Bancroft & Sons was a prosperous cotton cloth manufacturing company in Wilmington, Delaware. The Bancroft Company merged with the Eddystone Manufacturing Company, and in the mid-1930s it began producing a line of rayon goods and a cotton finishing process that were marketed under the trade names of "Ban-Lon" and "Everglaze" respectively. Much of the collection covers Ban-Lon and Everglaze, and many of the files are concerned with foreign activities or events.
Collection Size: 47 linear feet
Access: The collection is open for research. A finding aid (34 pages, PDF) with a detailed description about the contents of this collection is available online.
Accession number: 1359
Additional information/related collections:
Joseph Bancroft & Sons Photographs (Digital Collections)
Joseph Bancroft & Sons, miscellany (Finding Aid)
Contact: Ask Hagley or 302-658-2400 ext 330 for more information
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