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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Brandywine Springs Park postcard

 Collection
Accession: 1994-256
Abstract:

Brandywine Springs County Park was a popular amusement park in the rural countryside outside Wilmington from approximately 1890 to 1923. This collection consists of a postcard of the arched entrance to the park.

Dates: 1910-1915

Deadwood Central train at Chicago Railroad Fair postcard

 Collection
Accession: 1998-277
Abstract:

The Chicago Railroad Fair was the first exposition after the Second World War and the last exposition that featured railroads as its theme. It marked the centennial of the arrival of railroads to Chicago and their role in westward expansion. This is a postcard of the narrow gauge Deadwood Central train that carried visitors around the fairground.

Dates: 1948

New York waterworks photograph and ship "Mohican" postcard

 Collection
Accession: 1973-234
Abstract:

The Waterworks in Cooperstown, New York was built on the side of a mill in 1870, with an addition built in 1890. The ship "Mohican" was built circa 1900 and scrapped in 1936. This collection consists of two items: one black and white photograph of Waterworks, Cooperstown, New York and black and white postcard view of ship "Mohican."

Dates: circa 1900; 1967

Sexual harassment in the office postcard

 Collection
Accession: 1996-227
Abstract:

The history of sexual harassment in America dates back to slavery and domestic servitude in colonial times. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement and groups like them, along with labor activists, lobbied to protect women from sexual harassment. This collection is a postcard with an illustration showing a male employee with a female employee on his lap in an office setting.

Dates: 1900-1909

Women fishing Illustrations

 Collection
Accession: 1996-316
Abstract:

Angling is a method of fishing by means of using an angle or fish hook. The hook itself can be dressed with lures or bait to attract the fish. F. Earl Christy (1883-1961) was an illustrator whose early works glorified the society college girl. After the college girl craze ran its course, he painted more mature men and women, movie stars, and political figures in his romantically idealized style. These three items show women with fishing poles. One of the postcard illustration's artwork is by F. Earl Christy.

Dates: 1885-1910

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Amusement parks 1
Brandywine Springs (Faulkland, Del. : Amusement park) 1
Narrow gauge railroads 1
Office workers 1
Railroads -- Rolling stock 1