Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

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    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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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.
Laboring gang in Hagley Yard
Left to right: Unidentified, Sam Ferraro, unidentified, Benjamin Griffiths, possibly Louis Boubell.
William Betty family at Wagoner's Row
Left to right: William Betty, George Betty, Mrs. Betty, Faith Betty (Mrs. Lattomus).
DuPont Co. employees, farm workers
Left to right: William Snyder, Robert Betty, William G. Betty. South side of Eleutherian Mills Barn.
William G. Betty with dog, "Baby"
In Upper Yard on current site of Hagley Library.
William Grimshaw Betty and Mrs. Betty
House at Hunter's Corner at intersection of Buck Road and Route 100.
Children of DuPont Co. workers
House in Upper Banks on or near site of Hagley Library. Back row: Harry Snyder, William (or Harry) Toomey, Isabel Snyder, Madaline Betty. Front row: William Betty, Faith Betty, George Betty, and William Snyder.
DuPont Co. employees
Possibly taken at Hagley Yard or Wilmington Shops. Men in photograph include: Bill McCandless, Dan Dougherty, Bill Stewart, Johnny Deighan, Edgar Schaefer, Jean Martin, Tom Seery, Charlie Downey, Ned Davis, Michael Bonner, Charles Taylor, and Johnson Stillwell.
Railroad tracks near workers' homes
Rockford Tower visible in background.
Catherine Cheney with doll in front of Cheney family house
Cheney house next to the Gibbons House on Blacksmith Hill on Hagley property.

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