A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
For the first time in almost four years, new passenger cars emerged from Studebaker assembly lines, today. The company had been ready to produce automobiles for 13 weeks, but a labor dispute in the plant of a major parts supplier held up...
Text from back of image: "Jumping from an airplane 2200 feet above Coronado Bay, CA, recently with the intention of landing safely in the water, George La Wand, aerial daredevil, was caught by a gust of wind and blown over the residence section of...
The land and farm was owned by the Jacquet family, whose family settled here from the Netherlands. Major Peter Jacquet was an officer in the Delaware Line during the Revolution. The farm was located about a mile below Wilmington on Route 13.
The Welsh Tract Baptist Meeting is at the foot of Iron Hill near Cooch's Bridge in Pencader Hundred. The Welsh people settled on 3000 acres granted by William Penn. The original log church built in 1706 was replaced by the present Flemish bond...
