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Title: Water Wheel at Ashland, George Pusey's Flour Mill
Date(s): 1890/1920, 1890, 1920
Contributor(s): Marshall, Thomas Clarence, 1885-1969 (former owner)
Collection ID: Thomas C. Marshall photographs (Accession 1990.270)
Hagley ID: 1990270_0742
Collection: Thomas C. Marshall photographs

Title: Water Wheel at Ashland, George Pusey's Flour Mill
Date(s): 1890/1920, 1890, 1920
Contributor(s): Marshall, Thomas Clarence, 1885-1969 (former owner)
Description: Broken negative
Collection ID: Thomas C. Marshall photographs (Accession 1990.270)
Hagley ID: 1990270_0744
Collection: Thomas C. Marshall photographs

Title: Industrial Archeology Project: Lea Mills, Wilmington, Delaware
Date(s): 1970
Contributor(s): Mayer, Anne E., 1947- (author)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645)
Hagley ID: MS1645_052
Collection: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports

Title: The Brandywine Mills, 1742-1815
Date(s): 1956
Contributor(s): Welsh, Peter Corbett, 1926- (author)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645)
Hagley ID: MS1645_072
Collection: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports

Title: Interview with Oliver Collins, 1972 July 6-7 [audio]
Date(s): 1972-07-06?, 1972-07-06, 1972-07-07?, 1972-07-07
Contributor(s): Collins, Oliver Ernest, 1888-1982 (interviewee), Ackerman, James B. (interviewer)
Description: Collins describes how he was trained as a miller, how his business expanded, the different crops ground at his facility, the process of grinding corn and wheat, different grades of flour produced, and explosions that occurred in the mill business. He also discusses the role of grain elevators in the mill process.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_022614_collins_part3
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: The Celebrated Brandywine Flour Mills
Date(s): 1868~, 1868
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1831-1884 (associated name), Bartlett & French (photographer)
Description: William Lea & Sons Company flour mill at the Brandywine Falls, Wilmington, Del.
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Sr. prints and photographs (Accession 1970.072)
Hagley ID: 7072_19
Collection: Beauties of the Brandywine stereographs

Title: Martha Furnace daybook/diary
Date(s): 1808, 1815
Creator: Martha Furnace (Washington, N.J.)
Description: The volume is a combined daybook and diary, with operating and statistical data entered on the left-hand leaves and notes on the occurrences of the day entered on the right-hand leaves. It comprises a relatively complete account of the operation of a Pine Barrens iron plantation. The diary appears to have been the work of a single primary writer from 1808 to 1811. Thereafter, three individuals seem to have been responsible for the entries, until the diary was discontinued in 1815. It was once...
Show moreThe volume is a combined daybook and diary, with operating and statistical data entered on the left-hand leaves and notes on the occurrences of the day entered on the right-hand leaves. It comprises a relatively complete account of the operation of a Pine Barrens iron plantation. The diary appears to have been the work of a single primary writer from 1808 to 1811. Thereafter, three individuals seem to have been responsible for the entries, until the diary was discontinued in 1815. It was once thought that the principal writer was Caleb Earl, Jr., but this now appears less likely.

The daybook portion of the volume includes time sheets, lists of workmen, and records of consumption of raw materials and output of finished products. As such it is an important source on the technical performance of an early 19th century charcoal iron plantation. There are, however, no entries for wages paid or other dollar amounts, which were recorded in companion volumes that have not survived.

The diary portion of the volume is the work of a good observer of daily life and is an excellent source for the social history of an iron plantation. It mentions a total of 360 individual persons, including the workers, clerks, the visiting owners, and persons from the surrounding country doing business with the furnace. It describes work rhythms, celebrations, drunkenness, accidents, illnesses and deaths within the community, with occasional references to larger events in the world beyond the Pine Barrens. It also delineates the working relationships between Martha Furnace and nearby ironworks at Atsion, Batsto, Federal Furnace (Lakehurst), Hampton, Hanover and Weymouth.
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Collection ID: Martha Furnace daybook/diary (Accession 0339)
Hagley ID: MSS_0339_001
Collection: Martha Furnace daybook/diary

Title: Interview with Frank T. Stirlith, 1960 January 12, 1960 January 14 [transcript]
Date(s): 1960-01-12, 1960-01-14
Contributor(s): Stirlith, Frank T. (interviewee), Monigle, Joseph P. (interviewer), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer)
Description: Transcript of interview with Frank Stirlith who was a long time Wilmington resident and businessman who came into contact with members of the du Pont family. 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_060413_07
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Frank T. Stirlith1960 January 12, 1960 January 14 [audio](part 2)
Date(s): 1960-01-12, 1960-01-14
Contributor(s): Stirlith, Frank T. (interviewee), Monigle, Joseph P. (interviewer), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer)
Description: Stirlith describes his family history and immigration to the United States, his childhood growing up in Chester, life in Wilmington during his adult years, his career at DuPont, and his impressions of and interactions with various members of the du Pont family. He also recounts, in detail, William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold speech, which he heard in Wilmington in 1896.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_71613_Stirlith_part2
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Frank T. Stirlith, 1960 January 12, 1960 January 14 [audio](part 1)
Date(s): 1960-01-12, 1960-01-14
Contributor(s): Stirlith, Frank T. (interviewee), Monigle, Joseph P. (interviewer), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer)
Description: Stirlith describes his family history and immigration to the United States, his childhood growing up in Chester, life in Wilmington during his adult years, his career at DuPont, and his impressions of and interactions with various members of the du Pont family. He also recounts, in detail, William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold speech, which he heard in Wilmington in 1896.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_71113_Stirlith_part1
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Frank T. Stirlith, 1960 January 12, 1960 January 14 [audio](part 3)
Date(s): 1960-01-12, 1960-01-14
Contributor(s): Stirlith, Frank T. (interviewee), Monigle, Joseph P. (interviewer), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer)
Description: Stirlith describes his family history and immigration to the United States, his childhood growing up in Chester, life in Wilmington during his adult years, his career at DuPont, and his impressions of and interactions with various members of the du Pont family. He also recounts, in detail, William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold speech, which he heard in Wilmington in 1896.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_71613_Stirlith_Part3
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Old Windmill
Date(s): 1876
Contributor(s): Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (associated name)
Collection ID: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection (Accession 2003.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_2003_255_03_B_18B_02
Collection: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection

Title: Heller Milling Company
Date(s): 1912-03-20
Contributor(s): Fitz Water Wheel Co. (correspondent)
Collection ID: Fitz Water Wheel Company photographs (Accession 1995.218)
Hagley ID: AVD_95218_12
Collection: Fitz Water Wheel Company photographs

Title: Brandywine: An Early Flour-Milling Center, Brandywine River Project
Date(s): 1960
Contributor(s): Welsh, Peter C. (Peter Corbett), 1926-2010 (author), Smithsonian Institution (issuing body), United States National Museum (associated name)
Description: From The Smithsonian Report for 1959, pages 677-686 (with 7 plates), Publication 4416
Collection ID: TS2135 .D3 W42 cop.1
Hagley ID: TS2135_D3W42
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Millbourne Mills Company : its antecedents and present operations, and its exhibit in the Civic and industrial processional display at Philadelphia, September 15th, 1887, in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the adoption of the United States
Date(s): 1888
Collection ID: TS2135.P4 M64
Hagley ID: PC_TS2135P4_M64
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Old millstones
Date(s): 1951
Contributor(s): Flory, Paul B. (author)
Collection ID: Pam 2011.600
Hagley ID: 08186832_old_millstones
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets