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Group photograph of DuPont "Type 9" textile team

  • 1948

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Group photograph of DuPont shift supervisors and foremen responsible for the development of the "Type 9" textile at the DuPont plant in Martinsville, Virginia. Team supervisor Joseph X. Labovsky is seated on the far left side of the photograph. The rest of the individuals depicted in the photograph are unidentified.

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  • Box 2

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“Group Photograph of DuPont ‘Type 9’ Textile Team,” 1948. Joseph X. Labovsky Collection of Nylon Photographs and Ephemera, Box 2. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/f1881k977.

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