Wilmington, Delaware area historic images
Creation: 1930-1950Abstract
Wilmington is the largest city in Delaware located on the Christiana and Brandywine Rivers. This collection consists of three reproduction photographs of diverse subjects: an A5A steam locomotive #1167 of Reading Railroad crossing the road at Greenville, Delaware; a unoccupied trolley car in Wilmington, Delaware, originally built by the Peoples Railway Company in 1904; a postcard illustration of the Delaware Trust Building, Wilmington, Delaware.
Dates
- Creation: 1930-1950
Creator
- Unknown (Organization)
Extent
3 item(s)
General Physical Description
3 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Historical Note
Wilmington is the largest city in Delaware located on the Christiana and Brandywine Rivers. Originally colonized by the Swedish, Dutch and English in the seventeenth century. Wilmington was incorporated in 1731 and received a city charter in 1832.
Scope and Content
Three reproduction photographs of diverse subjects: an A5A steam locomotive #1167 of Reading Railroad crossing the road at Greenville, Delaware; a unoccupied trolley car in Wilmington, Delaware, originally built by the Peoples Railway Company in 1904; a postcard illustration of the Delaware Trust Building, Wilmington, Delaware.
Location
GL Box 2.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Additional Description
Provenance
Copied from the collection of W.W. Laird.
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Wilmington, Delaware area historic images
- Date:
- 2014
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository
