Typed caption: "Note portion of blacksmith shop (the stone building on right). This road enters Hagley Yard partially in the center, Upper Hagley left and Lower Hagley right. The building straight ahead at foot of hill is the Machine and millwright...
Written caption from Macklem album: "A pair of rolling mills or wheel mills in upper Hagley. The larger mill was originally used for other purposes, maybe a dust mill. The dust mills were superseded by the rolling mills. As it was necessary to...
Recruiting & enlistment; Military organizations; Artillery (Troops)
Recruiting poster for Battery B, 5th U.S. Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Henry Algernon du Pont. The poster was made while Battery B was encamped near Hagerstown, Maryland.
Written caption from original Macklem album: "Scene inside of No. 10 gate. Scene when entering Hagley Yard at the blacksmith shop gate. The road through this gate enters Hagley Yard at the machine shop and millwright's shop door and is practially...
Old man stands beside wooden gate with arch reading 'No Admittance.' Written caption: "Keg mill in background. Old Hagley Gate - DuPont Company. Gatekeeper - Alex Burns. Old Alec Burns [in different handwriting]."
A woman and two men look at a diorama. Written caption: "L to R: John B. Riggs - EMHL MSS. Evald Rink - EMHL Cataloging. Polly Scafidi - Hagley Fellow." Another inscription on back identifies woman as Hildegard Rink.
Writting on back: "Scene inside of No. 10 Gate. Scene when entering Hagley Yard at the Blacksmith shop gate. The road through this gate enters Hagley Yard at the Machine Shop and Millwright Shop door and is practically the dividing point between...
Typed caption: "Hist. #8 Du Pont Company Hagley Powder Yard at foot of hill below Christ Church, Wilmington, Delaware. At left is the old machine shop. The building opposite with the dark-colored steps was used as the powder foreman's office. ...
Tintype of Robert Smalls, who along with sixteen other slaves sailed the Confederate steamer "Planter" out of Charleston Harbor and into the hands of the U.S. Navy's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 13 May 1862. Smalls and his accomplices...
Military officers; Navies; Blockades; Armored vessels
Career Navy officer Percival Drayton served as a junior commander in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and later as Fleet Captain of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under Rear-Admiral David G....
Caption on reverse: "Statue of Rear Admiral S. F. Du Pont when it stood in Du Pont Circle, Washington, D.C. - looking north, up Connecticut Avenue." The statue was designed by sculptor Launt Thompson and dedicated on 20 December 1884. Members of...
Caption on reverse: "This photograph of Admiral Du Pont's house on the Louviers estate was given to Dorsey Gardner by Mrs. Du Pont (Aunt Sophie) and by him to me Bessie Gardner du Pont. In the photograph Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and Mrs. Du...
Military officers; Sailors; Navies; Ships; Ship equipment & rigging
Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and staff standing on the quarterdeck of the U.S.S. Wabash. Many of the ship's sailors can be seen in the background.
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...
