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Title: Entrance side of lifts, Hampstead
Date(s): 1906-06
Contributor(s): Otis Elevator Company (originator), Underground Electric Railways Company of London (associated name)
Collection ID: Otis Elevator Company installation of electric lifts for the London Underground photographs (Accession 1970.176)
Hagley ID: AVD_1970176_034
Collection: Otis Elevator Company installation of electric lifts for the London Underground photographs

Title: Typical entrance to lift
Date(s): 1906
Contributor(s): Otis Elevator Company (originator), Underground Electric Railways Company of London (associated name)
Collection ID: Otis Elevator Company installation of electric lifts for the London Underground photographs (Accession 1970.176)
Hagley ID: AVD_1970176_037
Collection: Otis Elevator Company installation of electric lifts for the London Underground photographs

Title: Interview with Mary Hazzard Collins, 1974 March [audio]
Date(s): 1974-03-01
Contributor(s): Collins, Mary (Hazzard), 1893-1981 (interviewee), Ward, Mary Sam (interviewer)
Description: Collins describes her first job as keeping track of the time slips and her second job working operating the elevators at 10th and Market. Her interview details the explosion of 1918; various interactions with du Pont family members, including Irenee, Lammot, T. Coleman, and Miss Sybil Ward; and a car accident that cost her her sight in one eye. The interview also features Mr. Collins, her husband.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_8813_Collins
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Mary Hazzard Collins, 1974 March [transcript]
Date(s): 1974-03
Contributor(s): Collins, Mary (Hazzard), 1893-1981 (interviewee), Ward, Mary Sam (interviewer)
Description: Transcript of interview with Mary Hazzard Collins who worked as a forelady and elevator operator 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_052813_04
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley