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Title: Lower Hagley Yard Dam
Date(s): 1880/1910?, 1880, 1910
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Description: Powder house in powder yard. Looking upstream past Holly Island on right.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_D007_011_A
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Two young men in front of New Machine Shop near Hagley Yard gates
Date(s): 1919?, 1919
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Description: Horse-drawn wagon visible in front of Machine Shop.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_M03_010
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Dam on Brandywine Creek near Clayton Street, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1921-05-15
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_D009_011
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Foundry yard workers in the foundry yard behind the Machine Shop
Date(s): 1870/1920, 1870, 1920
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (contributor)
Description: Left to right: Billy Walters, foundry boss and pattern maker; unidentified laborer; Harry Dadds, molder.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_W063_050
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Brandywine Creek, looking upstream from Van Buren Street Bridge
Date(s): 1890/1900?, 1890, 1900
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Description: Bridge in background is the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad bridge at the Augustine Cut off.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_B010_058
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Dam on Brandywine Creek near Clayton Street, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1919-03-22
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_D009_010
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: A Brandywine quarry
Date(s): 1880/1920?, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_Q010_004
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Mrs. Clarence A. Fahs and Mrs. T.S. Lendermand and two children Doris (Mrs. G. Porter) and Jane (Mrs. T.W. Riley) under Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad bridge at Augustine Cut-Off
Date(s): 1900/1915, 1900, 1915
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Description: Augustrine vehicle bridge also visible.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_B010_059
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: New Machine Shop office near Hagley Yard gates
Date(s): 1905/1920, 1905, 1920
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_M03_011
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Hagley powder yards entrance gate with New Machine Shop
Date(s): 1919-03
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Description: New machine shop second from left.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_E38_021
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad bridge at the Augustine Cut off, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1890/1920?, 1890, 1920
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Description: Vehicle bridge visible in background. Foot bridge (Swinging Bridge), Brandywine Park, in foreground.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_B056_006
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: A Brandywine quarry
Date(s): 1880/1920?, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_Q010_005
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs

Title: Interview with Clarence A. Fahs [transcript]
Date(s): 1966-04-22, 1966-05-02, 1966-05-04
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (interviewee), Monigle, Joseph P. (interviewer), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer)
Description: Transcript of interview with Clarence A. Fahs who was a machinist 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_052913_01
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Clarence A. Fahs, 1966 May 4 [audio]
Date(s): 1966-05-04
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (interviewee), Monigle, Joseph P. (interviewer), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer)
Description: Fahs describes his childhood in Wilmington, including his education, milking cows for extra money, boarding for his jobs in other cities, He discusses various jobs he had before DuPont, including working at Wilmington Dental Works, Novelty Machine Works, Pullman Automobile Company, and American Chain Works. He also describes his career at DuPont, including the various machines on the grounds, the explosion in 1917, wages, salaries, and vacation.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_82013_Fahs_part2
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Clarence A. Fahs, 1966 April 22, 1966 May 2 [audio]
Date(s): 1966-04-22, 1966-05-02
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (interviewee), Monigle, Joseph P. (interviewer), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer)
Description: Fahs describes his childhood in Wilmington, including his education, milking cows for extra money, boarding for his jobs in other cities, He discusses various jobs he had before DuPont, including working at Wilmington Dental Works, Novelty Machine Works, Pullman Automobile Company, and American Chain Works. He also describes his career at DuPont, including the various machines on the grounds, the explosion in 1917, wages, salaries, and vacation.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_81913_Fahs_part1
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Railroad tracks near workers' homes
Date(s): 1919-03
Contributor(s): Fahs, Clarence A. (former owner)
Description: Rockford Tower visible in background.
Collection ID: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs (Accession 2017.225)
Hagley ID: HF_W65_09
Collection: Brandywine Valley oral history interviewees' photographs