Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

About this collection

    The Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley (Accession 1970.370) collection contains oral history interviews conducted by Hagley staff between 1954 and 1990 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 Company workers. Click here to visit the digital collection for these recordings and transcripts.
    Some of the interviewees donated, lent for copying, or provided information about photographs depicting the workers' communities and powder yards. These photographs now form the Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.255) collection.
    Image: DuPont Co. workers enjoying a drink near the Club House at Thompson's Bridge. Click to view.

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Retreat from Jordan
Feather Bed Lane, Brandywine
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.
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."
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."
Below Chadd's Ford on the Brandywine
Two women and a man sit beneath a tree. Description from donor: "Note small dam between trees."
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."
Wilson's Dam, Cuba Hill
Men fishing below dam. Description from donor: "Note some sort of track just above stone wall."
Construction of dam, Wilson's saw and grist mill, Cuba Hill
Description from donor: "Note some sort of track just above stone wall."
View up the Brandywine near DuPont's
Possibly dam near Jessup and Moore's Paper Mill.
Riddle's Dam on the Brandywine
Men fishing on Riddle's Dam.
Wilmington dam at head of city race
Women and children sit near dam.
Hagley Entrance Gate and New Machine Shop
Iron and stone lower gate (main entrance). Also called Centennial Gates.
Rolling mills, lower Hagley yard
Written caption: "This is the graining or corning mill, H-19 in the Hagley Property Survey (1961). Image may be reversed."