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Title: Albert Roberts next to the first truck owned by Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co.
Date(s): 1905~, 1905
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: 'Albert Roberts - First Auto Truck - JB & SG'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_027
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Woman and children outside stone workers' housing units (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_019
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Albert Roberts at steering wheel of the first truck owned by Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co.
Date(s): 1905~, 1905
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_028
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Stone and brick workers' housing on Kentmere Road (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: '(Torn down)'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_010
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Stone and brick workers' housing on Kentmere Road (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: '(torn down - Brown Bld)'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_025
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Workers' housing on Rockford Road (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: '5-7 Rfd Rd.'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_021
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Worker housing on Riddle Avenue across from Riddle Chapel (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: The sign posted to a tree in the center of the image is advertising Young's Ice Cream.
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_018
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Stone and brick worker housing on Kentmere Road leading to quarry (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: '(torn down)'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_016
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Mill Road single gable frame house of Larry Jamison (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: 'Only house left'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_015
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Frame house of Wilmington plant employees (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1950~, 1950
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_004
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Dining room at Rockford Hall, male employees' boarding house (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: '#9 Rockford Road - Now Everfast Mill End Store'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_024
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Railroad tracks and Bancroft mill buildings along Brandywine Creek
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Mill buildings are part of either the Rockford or Kentmere departments of Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co.
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_001
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Worker housing running along east side of Rockford Road (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Power lines are visible running along the street. Written on verso: '(New Research Bld. built on site below first two houses.)'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_026
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Frame workers' housing on Mill Road (Wilmington, Del.)
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: 'Torn Down'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_013
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: McGonigle house at Kentmere Road and the Alley (Wilmington, Del.)
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_006
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Joy Road row of brick workers' housing with street power lines (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Photograph taken from site of newly constructed Research Boulevard.
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_020
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Frame workers' housing on Mill Road near gate of Kentmere Mills (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1880/1920, 1880, 1920
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: '(torn down) (Stanley Handlin)'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_014
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Multiple story frame workers' housing on Kentmere Road (Wilmington, Del.)
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Located on portion of road known as the Alley. Written on verso: '(Torn down)'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_011
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Row of workers' frame houses on St. Helena Road (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1900
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Written on verso: 'Removed to make way for settling tanks. (About 1900).'
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_009
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: George Wilde house near Rockford Gate (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1900~, 1900
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Built 1840 for J. Morton Poole (brother of Sarah (Poole) Bancroft). Occupied in 1862 by Andrew Wilde
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_002
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: Riddle Avenue at Riddle Chapel (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1900
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Description: Chapel is visible behind the trees on the left side of the image. The chapel was named after James Riddle, who operated cotton mills on the Brandywine at Kentmere from 1838 to 1873. He organized the establishment of the Mount Salem Church for his workers in 1847 and this church for the same community not long after.
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_017
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection

Title: McGonigle house at Kentmere Road and the Alley (Wilmington, Del.)
Date(s): 1900
Contributor(s): Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. (originator)
Collection ID: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. photographs (Accession 1969.025)
Hagley ID: 196925_008
Collection: Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company / Miss America Collection