About this collection

The DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226) collection consists of more than 1200 photographs depicts the landscape and buildings at or near the DuPont explosives manufacturing plants along Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware.

Approximately 900 images depict powder yard sites, including the DuPont Experimental Station, either during the mills' final decades of operation or prior to, during, and after excavation and restoration work on the site in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of the remaining images depict the worker communities which surrounded the powder yards.

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Image: DuPont Company metal keg mill workers. Click to view.