Panoramic view of DuPont Company's Old Hickory powder plant located near Nashville, Tennessee. The plant was built to produce 900,000 pounds of finished smokeless powder per day.

Top photograph includes the main power house, sedimentation basins and filter buildings to the right with the finished stage powder area in the distance. The foreground and left side include batteries of solvent recovery buildings. The first stage powder layout covers the press buildings, ether houses and alcohol units to the right of the solvent recovery buildings. Various buildings of the cotton purification area can be seen in the foreground center. Air dry buildings can be seen in the rear center with stacks of burner houses of the sulfuric acid line seen in the distance in the center.

Bottom photograph includes the cotton purification houses with the stacks of sulfuric acid and nitric acid houses to the left. The first stage powder area with alcohol rectifying units can be seen to the right of the power house.

Digitized in entirety, this illustrated work contains photographs and histories of companies that produced munitions for use in World War One. Includes the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Pennsylvania Trojan Powder Company, the Hercules Powder Company, Atlas Powder Company, the Bethlehem Loading Company, the Aetna Explosives Company, and the Butterworth-Judson Corporation. Select company entries include foldout panoramas of their facilities.