The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
postcards; motels; tourism; cabins; automobile service stations; gasoline pumps
on front of card: "Newfound Lodge and Dining Room--Cherokee, N.C. On N.C. Highway 107 in the Cherokee Indian Reservation." on back of card: "Modern Cottages. Private Showers. Newfound Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Hall, Managers. Cherokee, N.C. ...
on front of image: "Theurer Commercial Bodies. New York, N.Y. North Bergen, N.J." on side of truck: "Hohneker's Dairy. Est. 1898. 567-571 30th St. North Bergen, N.J." stamped on back of image: "Photographed by Eric J. Baker. Elizabeth, N.J."
Military officers; Parades & processions; Telegrams; Military organizations
Copy of a telegram from Hugh Stirling to W. N. Chandler regarding a torchlight procession that Stirling's Independent Company of Delaware Infantry would be participating in.
The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
on front of card: "Tea Room and Service Station. The Windmill Tourist Camp, Seneca Falls, N.Y. 125 Miles East of Niagara Falls, N.Y. Routes 5 and 20." on back of card: "Windmill Tourist Camp. Consisting of 14 furnished cottages, Tea Room, and...
on front of card: "Glen Motor Court. Watkins Glen, N.Y. in the Finger Lakes." on back of card: "Glen Motor Court. Two De Luxe Motels - 33 Units. Private Bath and Showers with plenty of hot water, overlooking beautiful Seneca Lake, one of the...
Photos identified as follows: Top left - "Ilex Opaca-American Holly. J. S. Whitmere, Port Washington, N.Y." Top right - "large Holly Tree, Vineland, New Jersey. Branford Lewis, Lewis & Valentine Letter, Dec. 20, 1933." Bottom right - Large...
Handbill promoting candidate William Cannon of the Union Party for Governor of Delaware. Cannon won the election and served from 20 January 1863 until 1 March 1865, when he died in office. Many Delaware politicians disliked Cannon because of his...
Caption on reverse: "Picture taken on board the U.S.S. Wabash, in the harbor of Port Royal, South Carolina in 1862, and presented by J. C. Vail of Morristown, N.J. to Senator H. A. du Pont of Delaware in memory of Rear-Admiral S. F. Du Pont, April...