Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs
About this collection
Hagley Museum staff conducted a series oral history interviews between 1954 and 1990, speaking primarily with individuals who had worked at the DuPont Company powder yards on Brandywine Creek during the yards’ final decades of operation or who had lived near the yards as spouses or children of DuPont Co. workers. Some of the individuals who were interviewed donated, lent for copying, or provided information on the photographs in this collection. The images primarily depict the worker communities which surrounded the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company powder yards on Brandywine Creek or the powder yards themselves. For a detailed description of the entire collection, click here to view the finding aid.
- Image: DuPont Co. workers enjoying a drink near the Club House at Thompson's Bridge. Click to view.
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- Rattlesnake Run area on right bank of Brandywine Creek downstream from Wilmington city dam
- Two women sitting on bank among the willows along the Brandywine before the race was built, Rattlesnake Run area. Downstream from Wilmington City Dam.
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- Brandywine Creek
- Description from donor: "Looking downstream from about the location of the present B&O Bridge. Note the old Broom Street dam head gates on right side of creek."
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- Up Brandywine Creek
- Description from donor: "Looking downstream from about the location of the present B&O Bridge. Note the old Broom Street dam head gates on right side of creek."
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- Below Chadd's Ford on the Brandywine
- Two women and a man sit beneath a tree. Description from donor: "Note small dam between trees."
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- Brandywine Creek
- Description from donor: "Looking downstream from about the location of the present B&O bridge. Note old Broom Street dam head gates on right side of creek."
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- Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad bridge at the Augustine Cut off, Wilmington, Delaware
- Vehicle bridge visible in background. Foot bridge (Swinging Bridge), Brandywine Park, in foreground.
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- Cooper shop off of Breck's Lane in Henry Clay, Delaware
- View looking from Upper Breck's Lane, Rockford Water Tower in distance.
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- Samuel Moore (Mare), cooper, inside Breck's Mill
- Powder keg repairman.
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- Hagley powder yards entrance gate with New Machine Shop
- New machine shop second from left.
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- Testing area for powder, DuPont Experimental Station
- View through doorway and down hall showing apparatus to test powder.
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- Ballistics Laboratory at DuPont Experimental Station
- Interior of laboratory with machinery.
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- DuPont Experimental Station
- Interior of laboratory with machinery.
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- Flooded Brandywine looking upstream toward DuPont powder yards
- On left bank, Long Row houses, Christ Church spire, the "New" Machine Shop, and Henry Clay Keg Mill are visible. Walker's Banks houses visible on right bank of river.