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Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated photographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2010-276
Abstract:
The Woodlawn Trustees, Incorporated, is a non-profit real estate development firm incorporated in Delaware on December 12, 1918, by textile manufacturer William Poole Bancroft (1835-1928). Records consist primarily of 35mm slides, mostly dating from 1989 to 2002, documenting Woodlawn Trustees properties throughout Wilmington and Brandywine Hundred, including low-income city housing, preserved farmland, greenways along the Brandywine Creek, and commercial properties on Concord Pike and the Wilmington waterfront.
Dates:
1910-1920; 1982-2002
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair tickets
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2010-223
Abstract:
World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair which was staged from May to October, 1893, commemorated 400 years since Columbus's New World arrival. This small collection consists of four printed tickets to the World's Columbian Exposition, each bearing a different portrait: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, a Native American.
Dates:
1893
Worlds Columbian Exposition fan
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2004-239-1
Abstract:
World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair which was staged from May to October, 1893, commemorated 400 years since Columbus's New World arrival. Souvenir paper fan containing a colored lithographic bird's-eye-view of the fairgrounds.
Dates:
circa 1893
World's Columbian Exposition lagoon area stereographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1993-264
Abstract:
World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair which was staged from May to October, 1893, commemorated 400 years since Columbus's New World arrival. These two stereographs show two different views of the lagoon area at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Dates:
circa 1893
World's Columbian Exposition paper pop-up toy
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1992-235
Abstract:
World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair which was staged from May to October, 1893, commemorated 400 years since Columbus's New World arrival. The cover of the pop-up toy shows a bird's eye view of some buildings at the Exposition. The interior is composed of three facades.
Dates:
1893
World's Columbian Exposition pop-up books
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2005-274
Abstract:
World's Fairs or International Expositions are large-scale exhibitions that highlight technology, agriculture and other innovations of national or cultural significance. World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair which was staged from May to October, 1893, commemorated 400 years since Columbus's New World arrival. This small collection consists of four "pop-up books" from the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
Dates:
1893
World's Columbian Exposition souvenir flyer
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2004-261
Abstract:
World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair which was staged from May to October, 1893, commemorated 400 years since Columbus's New World arrival. This is a flyer advertising the American Aristotype Paper and G. Cramer photographic dry plates.
Dates:
1893.
World's Fair and travel postcards
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2012-224
Abstract:
World's Fairs or International Expositions are large-scale exhibitions that highlight technology, agriculture and other innovations of national or cultural significance. This small collection consists of nine postcards primarily of buildings and exhibits from World's Fairs.
Dates:
1933-1955
World's Fair ephemera
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2011-210
Abstract:
World's Fairs or International Expositions are large-scale exhibitions that highlight technology, agriculture and other innovations of national or cultural significance. These fairs are open to the general public and can run for three weeks to six months. This is a small collection of ephemera from various World's Fairs.
Dates:
1933-1965
"World's Fair March Collection" book of sheet music
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2005-225
Abstract:
World's Fairs or International Expositions are large-scale exhibitions that highlight technology, agriculture and other innovations of national or cultural significance. World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair which was staged from May to October, 1893, commemorated 400 years since Columbus's New World arrival. This item is a book containing a collection of thirty-nine marching songs written as instrumentals for the piano.
Dates:
1892
Worth Steel Company records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1529
Abstract:
The Worth Steel Company was a manufacturer of steel plates in Claymont, Delaware. Its records consist of papers from its operations and from its predecessor companies (Viaduct Iron Works and Worth Brothers Company, both of Coatesville, Pennsylvania). Items include correspondence, accounts, data sheets, agreeements, closing papers in sale to Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation in 1951.
Dates:
1863-1951
Wright family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1665
Abstract:
Samuel Gardiner Wright (1781-1845) was a West Jersey Quaker merchant and ironmaster who conducted a wide-ranging mercantile business based in Philadelphia, iron furnaces in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and in southern Delaware and maintained a country house and farm in Monmouth County, N.J. The papers document his varied business interests, especially iron manufacture and sales. There are smaller quantities of papers from his wife, sons and grandson.
Dates:
1785-1902, bulk 1809-1876
Wright family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 2575
Abstract:
Papers of four generations of the Wright family of Monmouth County, N.J., and Luzerne County, Pa., particularly of Samuel G. Wright (1781-1845), Philadelphia merchant and general entrepreneur, and his son, Harrison Gardiner Wright (1810-1885), a gentleman farmer.
Dates:
1805-1887
Wurts family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1982
Abstract:
The Wurts family were involved in the anthracite coal industry. In 1823 four brothers: Maurice Wurts (1783-1854), William Wurts (1788-1858), Charles Stewart Wurts (1790–1859), and John Wurts (1792-1861) founded the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company originally to mine anthracite coal and transport the resource to New York. The company built the Delaware and Hudson Canal and later became the Delaware and Hudson Railway. The Wurts family papers were collected by John Sparhawk Wurts (1876-1958) and reflect both family papers and business records.
Dates:
1699-1964
W.W. Laird collection of graphic materials and family movies
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1994-316
Abstract:
William Winder ‘Chick” Laird, Jr. (1910-1989) was a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and a financial advisor, starting his own brokerage firm in Wilmington, Delaware. This collection includes photographs of interiors and exteriors of du Pont family estates and homes in Delaware, as well as portraits and snapshots of du Pont and Laird family members. The collection also contains a large number of lantern slides, blueprints, maps, and film reels of home movies and family skits.
Dates:
circa 1880-1975
Wyomissing Development Company records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 1905
Abstract:
The Wyomissing Development Company was a housing development firm for the employees of a manufacturer of knitting machinery, the Textile Machine Works. Both companies were incorporated by Henry Janssen (1866-1948) and Ferdinand Thun (1866-1948). The collection contains two minute books which document the organization of the Wyomissing Development Company, the acquisition of land for the company town and other public facilities including stores, parks, playgrounds, schools, and hospitals.
Dates:
1913-1934
York Oil Burner Company's industrial oil burning equipment album
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1969-083
Abstract:
The York Oil Burner Company was a manufacturer of oil-fired residential and commercial oil heating equipment. This collection consists of one album containing 80 black & white photographic prints of industrial equipment of the York Oil Burner Co., Inc. Many of the photographs are interior views of building basements showing York Oil Burner Co. equipment installed in the building's furnace system.
Dates:
circa 1936
Young, McAllister, and Warner family papers
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Identifier: 0427
Abstract:
The Young and McAllister families were prominent families in the Associate Presbyterian community in Philadelphia. William Young (1755-1829) was a Philadelphia bookseller and later a manufacturer at Rockland, Delaware. John McAllister Jr. (1786-1877) ran the Philadelphia optical firm of that same name. This small collection of papers relate to the Young, McAllister, and Warner families. Approximately half of the material are correspondence from John Young, William Young, John McAllister Jr., and Joseph T. Warner; the other half are miscellaneous documents related to the families and businesses they were involved with including Rockland Manufacturing Company and McAllister Spectacle Company.
Dates:
1794-1871
Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera
Found in:
Published Collections
Collection
Identifier: 20100108-ZTV
Abstract:
Consists of Z. Taylor Vinson's collection of transportation ephemera, which focuses primarily on automobile history but also documents other forms of transportation. Includes trade catalogs, books, magazines, and artifacts in addition to manuscripts relating to Vinson's career at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Dates:
1860-2011; bulk 1893-2009
Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation lithographs
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 2010-203
Abstract:
For over sixty years, Zachary Taylor Vinson (1933-2009) amassed a large and comprehensive collection of printed material documenting on the history of transportation, particularly automobiles. This small collection of French lithographs depicts early aeronautical and motor vehicle subjects. All but one were designed by either Ernest Montaut (1879-1909) or his wife, Marguerite Montaut (1883-1936). The final print is by poster artist Georges Hamel (1900-1972).
Dates:
circa 1906-1913; undated
Zanol Products Company salesman's case and ephemera
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Identifier: 1993-301
Abstract:
The Zanol Products Company was a door-to-door consumer goods distributor. Founded in Cincinnati, Ohio circa 1908, Zanol developed its own line of household products which the company sold directly to consumers via door-to-door representatives. This collection consists of one salesman's case containing pamphlets, trade cards, trade catalogs, sewing needle cases, books of blank order forms, and other ephemera from the Zanol Products Company.
Dates:
1926-1933
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- Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 16
- Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon), 1838-1926 16
- United States. Navy 16
- Dick, John A., 1879-1972 14
- Du Pont de Nemours, Francoise Robin Poivre, 1748-1841 14
- New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.) 14
- Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co 13
- Savery, Thomas H., 1837-1910 13
- Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 12
- Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.) 12
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) 12
- Eleutherian Mills (Greenville, Del. : Estate) 11
- Pusey and Jones Company 11
- Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 10
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Textile Fibers Department 10
- Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 10
- Jackson Laboratory (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company) 10
- World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 10
- Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937 9
- Du Pont, Francis Gurney, 1850-1904 9
- Du Pont, Victor Marie, 1767-1827 9
- Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 9
- Pusey & Jones Corporation 9
- Reading Company 9
- Baldwin Locomotive Works 8
- Bethlehem Steel Corporation 8
- Crowninshield, Louise du Pont, 1877-1958 8
- Du Pont, Henry, 1812-1889 8
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Brandywine Works 8
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Organic Chemicals Department 8
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 8
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Carney's Point Works 7
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Central Research and Development Department 7
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Chestnut Run Laboratories 7
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Hagley Yard 7
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Pioneering Research Laboratory 7
- Gentieu, Pierre A., 1842-1930 7
- Gilpin, Joshua, 1765-1841 7
- Hagley Museum and Library 7
- Hanford Engineer Works 7
- International Business Machines Corporation 7
- Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927 7
- Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co 7
- Victor Talking Machine Company 7
- Amtrak 6
- Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 6
- Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935 6
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Grasselli Chemicals Department 6
- General Electric Company 6
- Lea family 6
- Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 6
- Manhattan Project (U.S.) 6
- National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) 6
- Penn Central Transportation Company 6
- Radio Corporation of America 6
- Thayer, Horace H., 1878-1959 6
- Young, William, 1755-1829 6
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 5
- Bauduy, Peter, 1769-1833 5
- Brandywine Manufacturers Sunday School 5
- Budd Company 5
- DeMirjian, Charles H., 1925-2021 5
- Du Pont, Irénée, 1876-1963 5
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Engineering Department 5
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company 5
- General Motors Corporation 5
- Hagley Museum and Library. Library. Oral History Project Office 5
- Hercules Powder Company 5
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 5
- Lukens Steel Company 5
- Ramsay, William G. (William Gouverneur), 1866 - 1916 5
- Remington Arms Company 5
- Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 5
- University of Delaware 5
- William Sellers & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 5
- All American Engineering Company 4
- American Car and Foundry Company 4
- American Car and Foundry Company. Jackson & Sharp Plant 4
- American Iron and Steel Institute 4
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company 4
- Bauduy, Victorine du Pont, 1792-1861 4
- Bethlehem Steel Company 4
- Bradford, Phoebe George, 1794-1840 4
- Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 4
- Central Railroad of New Jersey 4
- ConRail 4
- Du Pont Motors, Incorporated 4
- Du Pont, Alfred Victor, 1798-1856 4
- Du Pont, Charles I. (Charles Irénée), 1797-1869 4
- Du Pont, Jean Kane Foulke, 1891-1985 4
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