Written caption: "West 10th St, looking west from Market. Left: Ford Building. Right: DuPont Building. Center background: Baptist Church, Delaware Avenue and West St."
Printed caption: "The attempt to move the county government from New Castle to Wilmington was bitterly opposed by many. Legislative bills, referenda, and Grand Jury reccomendations were prepared to no avail until, in February 1879, the General...
Written captions: "11th to 12th Streets; DuPont Building in background. Winchester home, former residence of Col. Henry McComb. Site of new post office and federal building."
Caption on back: "11th and French Streets. Site of present city and county building. Picture taken at French Street, corner of 11th, looking southward along properties extending through from King Street. Entire block was removed as site for [new]...
Written captions: "Looking north from the Equitable Building toward the DuPont Building, showing the Ward Apartments (center) and the YMCA (left of center). Right: Ford Building."
Image Caption: Discussing design features of Seagram Park Avenue, the new 38 story skyscraper to be erected by Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc. on New York's Park Avenue, members of the Building Planning Service Council of the National Association of...
The Seagram Spotlight Photograph Collection; Hagley Digital Images
Written caption: "Main magazine where powder is shipped. Man in center narrowly escaped death in great explosion of 1890. Was on his way with companion to building which contained 100,000 lbs best fine powder. He stopped to converse with someone...
Written caption: "Looking southward along properties extending through from King Street. Entire block was removed as site for City and County Building. At the time and before removal the OddFellows had erected a new building at corner of 10th and...
This image shows John B. Riggs on left, curator of the Manuscripts Department and William E. Martin of Atlas Storage Company on the right. The Manuscripts collection was sent under lock to the new building.
Photographs of the move of Longwood Library to Eleutherian Mills Historical Library; Hagley Digital Images
"Forerunner of Eastern Laboratory." Written caption: "This building . . . was the forerunner of the DuPont Company's first formal research unit, the Eastern Laboratory, established in 1902 at Gibbstown. Lammot du Pont established the Repauno Works...
Family group stands in street outside house. Written captions: "Mr. Patrick Walsh house - site of pulp keg building. House on Barley Mill Lane at food of hill."
