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.

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: Peter Ferraro, blacksmith, in front of the Blacksmith Shop at Montchanin

: Retreat from Jordan; Feather Bed Lane, Brandywine

: Road to Jordan, 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, near old swinging bridge

: Brandywine Creek, looking upstream from Van Buren Street Bridge; Bridge in background is the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad bridge at the Augustine Cut off.

: Mrs. Clarence A. Fahs and Mrs. T.S. Lendermand and two children Doris (Mrs. G. Porter) and Jane (Mrs. T.W. Riley) under Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad bridge at Augustine Cut-Off; Augustrine vehicle bridge also visible.

: Fred Evans near former cannon house in front of Christ Church; Old cannon house in front of Christ Church, where powder was tested.

: Fred Evans near former cannon house in front of Christ Church; Old cannon house in front of Christ Church, where powder was tested.

: Interior of Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Church

: Interior of Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Church

: Interior of Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Church

: Interior of Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Church

: Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Church, Delaware

: 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."

: Bancroft Dam on Brandywine Creek

: Lower Hagley Yard Dam; Powder house in powder yard. Looking upstream past Holly Island on right.

: Upper Yard dam at Eleutherian Mills

: View up the Brandywine near DuPont's; Possibly dam near Jessup and Moore's Paper Mill.

: Riddle's Dam

: Riddle's Dam on the Brandywine; Men fishing on Riddle's Dam.

: Riddle's Dam on the Brandywine

: Dam at head of city race, Wilmington, Delaware

: Wilmington dam at head of city race; People sit on dam.

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