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Title: Interview with Catherine Cheney, 1984 January 23 [audio]
Date(s): 1984-01-23
Contributor(s): Cheney, Catherine (interviewee), Perkins, Karen (interviewer)
Description: Cheney discusses gardening in the community, the layout of the Brandywine villages, the chicken house, and fear of explosions. She describes her family's garden in detail, particularly various types of crops planted.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_92513_cheney_c_part7
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Elsa Lewkowitsch in garden
Date(s): 1943-09
Contributor(s): Litchfield, Carter (collector), Lewkowitsch, J. (Julius), 1857-1913 (former owner)
Collection ID: Carter Litchfield photographs and ephemera on the history of fatty materials (Accession 2007.227)
Hagley ID: 2270183
Collection: Carter Litchfield history of fatty materials collections

Title: Cora and Frank Matheson at their Winter Park home
Date(s): 1926
Contributor(s): Matheson Automobile Company (originator), Beale, Binnie (collector)
Collection ID: Matheson Automobile Company photographs (Accession 1989.327)
Hagley ID: 1989327_079
Collection: Matheson Automobile Company photographs

Title: Harry Haskell's greenhouse on Hill Girt Farm (Chadds Ford, Pa.)
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Seal, Edward J., 1896-1955 (photographer)
Collection ID: Edward J.S. Seal photographic reproductions (Accession 1971.336)
Hagley ID: 71336_050
Collection: Edward J.S. Seal Photograph Collection

Title: Harry Haskell's greenhouse on Hill Girt Farm (Chadds Ford, Pa.)
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Seal, Edward J., 1896-1955 (photographer)
Collection ID: Edward J.S. Seal photographic reproductions (Accession 1971.336)
Hagley ID: 71336_048
Collection: Edward J.S. Seal Photograph Collection

Title: Harry Haskell's greenhouse on Hill Girt Farm (Chadds Ford, Pa.)
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Seal, Edward J., 1896-1955 (photographer)
Collection ID: Edward J.S. Seal photographic reproductions (Accession 1971.336)
Hagley ID: 71336_049
Collection: Edward J.S. Seal Photograph Collection

Title: Interview with Catherine Cheney, 1984 March 26 [transcript]
Date(s): 1984-03-26
Contributor(s): Cheney, Catherine (interviewee), Perkins, Karen (interviewer)
Description: Transcript of interview with Catherine Cheney who lived in Free Park and continues a discussion on workers' gardens. The interview took place in New Castle, Delaware.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interview transcripts on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 2026)
Hagley ID: 2026_060713_01
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with Catherine Cheney, 1984 March 26 [audio]
Date(s): 1984-03-26
Contributor(s): Cheney, Catherine (interviewee), Perkins, Karen (interviewer)
Description: Cheney provides details of her life at Free Park, including fear of typhoid in the water supply, delivery of groceries and other items, her sibling dynamic, She details gardening at Hagley, including drying and storing herbs, what kinds of plants were chosen for the garden, different gardening tools, and composting.
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_92613_cheney_c_part9
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley