Wednesday is is Tax Day, so we've invited some special guests to the Hagley Vault this week to give us a hand.
This 1955 photograph shows the 61 men and women chosen to represent the DuPont company's Tax, Legal, Payroll, Tabulating, Statistical, and General Ledger Departments, as well as the paperwork and office equipment used to manage the company's annual taxes and take care of compiling and directing individual employee withholding for the company's more than 117,000 workers.
This photograph is part of Hagley Library's DuPont Company product information collection collection (Accession 1972.341). The product information section was a division of the company's Public Relations Department that was organized in 1952. Its main directive was to create news releases accompanied by photographs that could be sent to trade journals and newspapers to create inexpensive publicity and indirect advertising for DuPont.
The collection contains photographs of DuPont Company corporate events and proceedings, product trade shows and fairs, development and manufacturing processes, and the employees and facilities where the products were created. Most of the photographs were taken from the 1930s through the 1950s.
The collection has not been digitized in its entirety, but you can browse through over 2,000 selections from the collection online now in our Digital Archives. Just click here!