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Title: Interview with Emily Peoples Blackwell, 1970 July 6 [audio]
Date(s): 1970-07-06
Contributor(s): Blackwell, Emily Peoples, 1913-2015 (interviewee), Hinsley, J.A. (interviewer), Ward, Mary Sam (interviewer)
Description: Blackwell details various childhood experiences, including playing and sledding in Squirrel Run, paddle boating in the Brandywine, attending Christ Church, and studying at Alexis I. du Pont School and Beacom's Business School. She also discusses interactions with members of the du Pont family, including Alfred I., Bessie G., Madeline, and Louise Crowninshield. Her interview provides details into daily life at Squirrel Run and of powder workers' families.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_71813_Blackwell_part1
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Emily Peoples Blackwell, 1970 July 6 [transcript]
Date(s): 1970-07-06
Contributor(s): Blackwell, Emily Peoples, 1913-2015 (interviewee), Hinsley, Jacqueline A. (interviewer), Ward, Mary Sam (interviewer)
Description: Transcript of interview with Emily Blackwell who lived at Squirrel Run while her father worked in the powder mills for DuPont. The interview took place in Wilmington, Delaware.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interview transcripts on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 2026)
Hagley ID: 2026_052213_03
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Emily Peoples Blackwell, 1973 [audio] (part 2)
Date(s): 1973
Contributor(s): Blackwell, Emily Peoples, 1913-2015 (interviewee)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_102513_blackwell_part3
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Emily Peoples Blackwell, 1973 [audio] (part 1)
Date(s): 1973
Contributor(s): Blackwell, Emily Peoples (interviewee)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_102513_blackwell_part2
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley