Inventor Name
Du Mont Labortatories
Repository
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20540-4680
202-707-5387
www.loc.gov
Physical Description
41,000 items. 139 containers
Summary
Organized in 1935 by Allen B. Du Mont; devoted to electronic television and communications engineering; television receiver and manufacturing business sold to Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation in 1958; remainder of the firm merged with Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation in 1960. General correspondence, administrative files, inter-office correspondence, financial records, sales and advertising files, television files, hearing files (U.S. Senate, House, and Federal Communications Commission), and miscellaneous records relating chiefly to the laboratory development and commercial use of the television cathode ray tube. Includes personal papers of Allen B. Du Mont (1901-1965), founder. Correspondents include Leonard Frederick Cramer, Thomas Toliver Goldsmith, Jr., Austin Celestin Lescarboura, John R. Poppele, William Allerton Roberts, Elmer Louis Wheeler, and Chris James Witting.