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General view, Dupont's Powder Mills. [graphic].
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Creator
Bartlett & French.
Title
General view, Dupont's Powder Mills. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date
[ca. 1868]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8.5 x 17.5 cm. (3.25 x 7 in.)
Description
View of the stone gunpowder mill buildings on the Brandywine River north of Wilmington, Delaware, where in 1802 Eleuthere Irenee DuPont DeNemours built the first DuPont Powder Mills in America. In the foreground, a man and a boy balance on the rocks near a dam, possibly Bancroft Dam, on the Brandywine. Mills in the background are surrounded by bare trees. Powder was manufactured there for the United States Government in War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War and Great War. Old Mills abandoned 1921.
Is part of
Beauties of the Brandywine, Delaware. No. 256
Notes
Title from photographer's label pasted on verso.
Manuscript notes on verso: Bartlett & French; William C. Darrah Coll.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note
Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Subject
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.
Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation.
Powder mills -- Delaware.
Dams -- Delaware.
Geographic subject
Brandywine River (Pa. and Del.)
Bancroft Dam (Brandywine River, Pa. and Del.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Industry [P.8484.5]
Accession number
P.8484.5
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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