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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- Sunday school group at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
- Priest identified as: Rev. Edward Henchy, pastor of St. Joseph's on the Brandywine, 1887.
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- Wooden keg mill (cooper shop) on Breck's Lane
- Gentieu caption: "Factory where wood kegs are made. Man in center (Gailey Mathewson) has worked here for 50 years and is 77 years old and has only one lung, but seems good for many years yet." The following provided by F.L. Mathewson, grandson of Gilbert Mathewson, in 1966: Main Cooper Shop is building at far right, soaking pits were to right, off picture. Had slate roof and slate shingle siding. Pancake Run is in foreground, flowing under bridge to left. Left to right: Harry Carter (?); Gilbert Mathewson, boss of cooper shop; Frank Applegate; William Roe [Rowe?].
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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 Entrance Gate and New Machine Shop
- Iron and stone lower gate (main entrance). Also called Centennial Gates.
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- Hagley powder yards entrance gate with New Machine Shop
- New machine shop second from left.
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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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- Casenove Gardner, Alfred I. du Pont, and Ben Fletcher at Cherry Island, Maryland property of Alfred I. du Pont
- Carriage of Mr. Edgar in front of Bromwell house.
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- Alfred I. du Pont with men from Henry Clay, Delaware at his Cherry Island, Maryland property
- From left: George Cook, Alfred I. du Pont holding James Bromwell's grandson, Jim Cook, Casenove Gardner, the driver Mr. Edgar, and Ben Fletcher.