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1. Du Mont Laboratories records, 1930-1960

   41,000 items. 139 containers. 56 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Firm organized by Allen B. Du Mont in 1935 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, interoffice correspondence, financial records, sales and advertising files, television and government hearing material, and miscellaneous records relating chiefly to the development and commercial use of the television cathode ray tube. Includes personal papers of founder Allen B. Du Mont.