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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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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- View from Rockford Tower looking north and west toward Kennett Pike
- Typed caption: "Charles Copeland home right of center; visible on Kennett Pike is stable of St. Amour, A. Felix du Pont home (Elton), Ernest du Pont home, and Alexis I. du Pont School."
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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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- Looking north on Kennett Pike at Tower Road, after sleet storm
- Spire of Green Hill Presbyterian Church visible at left.
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- Rolling mills in Hagley Yard
- Roll mills 19 and 20. Stack of steam power plant visible in background.
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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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- Powder workmen's farewell at Nemours, home of Alfred I. du Pont
- The following people are identified: Ed Bader, machinist; Frank Haley, clerk; Tom Tulley, clerk; John Dougherty, clerk; Will Beatty, pattern maker; Seitz, foreman of woodwork shop; Bob Millin, tinsmith.