The long holiday weekend may be over, but let's sneak in just a little more time at the beach. This ca. 1916 panoramic photograph shows residents of DuPont Village at the community's bathing beach in Carney's Point, New Jersey.
The DuPont Company purchased the land for a smokeless powder plant at Carney's Point, New Jersey in 1890. In 1892, it began producing guncotton and the first smokeless powder. The plant grew in response to demand from the Spanish-American War, but really boomed during World War I. The thousands of workers employed there at the time were provided with company housing in a workers' village. The plant continued production into the early 1970s, when it was abandoned and dismantled.
John A. Dick (1879-1972), the first full-time photographer hired by the DuPont Company, documented the growth of the plant during WWI in these photographs. The twenty images that make up the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Carney's Point Works and…Read more...