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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- Lower Hagley Yard Dam
- Powder house in powder yard. Looking upstream past Holly Island on right.
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- Employees in New Machine Shop at Hagley Yard
- Identification by Edward L. Bader: Back row left to right: E.M. Taylor (Shop Superintendent), Ed Bader, and Fred Ivins. Front row left to right: William Waterbury, Duncan Thatcher.
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- Two young men in front of New Machine Shop near Hagley Yard gates
- Horse-drawn wagon visible in front of Machine Shop.
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- 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."
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- Gasoline traction engine designed by Alfred I. du Pont
- Left to right identified by Bader: "Mike Maloney, Ed Bader at controls, 'Expert' from New York, William Houston (foreman of the machine shop)."
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- Coal car in Hagley Yard
- Race-way track and new dam at lower end Hagley Yard, showing coal tar and upper race waste-way to the left.
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- Foundry yard workers in the foundry yard behind the Machine Shop
- Left to right: Billy Walters, foundry boss and pattern maker; unidentified laborer; Harry Dadds, molder.