Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company collections

About this collection

    Joseph Bancroft, an Englishman trained in textile weaving in Lancashire, established his own cotton mill on the Brandywine near Wilmington, Delaware in 1831. The firm was incorporated as the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company in 1889.
    This digital collection includes material documenting the Joseph Bancroft & Sons textile mills from Hagley Library's collection of Joseph Bancroft and Sons Company photographs (Accession 1969.025). It also draws extensively from our Joseph Bancroft and Sons Company, Miss America collection (Accession 1972.430).
    This latter collection consists of general advertising, fashion photography, and product information for textiles produced and marketed by Bancroft in the 20th century. It also documents the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company's sponsorship of the Miss America Pageant and the promotion of fabrics by Miss America from the years 1953 to 1967.
    Image: 1961 Ban-Lon fashions. Click here to view in the collection.

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