Among the highlights of the collections are the Arthur N. and A.N. Sanborn studio collection, ca. 1900-1960; the Aero Service Corp. Collection of aerial photos, ca. 1929-1939; the Peirre Gentieu Collection of glass plate negatives showing the early DuPont yards and workers, early 1900s; the ArtVue Collection of postcard negatives, ca. 1930s; the News Journal Company negatives, ca. 1972-1985 (accessible only by date); the Bill Frank collection of prints and slides, 1940s-1980s; and the Frank Zebley albums of photos of Delaware churches and the Brandywine River, ca. 1930s, and the Fabulous Fifites. Look for additions to this page in the future. 

Following is a list of the categories included in the photograph card catalog: 

  • Advertisements

  • Albums

  • Apartment Buildings

  • Appliances/Household Furnishings

  • Automobiles

  • Aviation

  • Banks

  • Beaches

  • Bicentennial/Celebrations

  • Blacks

  • Bridges

  • Buildings

  • Business

  • Buses

  • Canals

  • Cemeteries/Graves

  • Churches

  • Cities & Towns

  • Depression

  • Emblems

  • Ethnic Groups

  • Fairs/Exhibitions

  • Fire Companies

  • Fishing (Commercial)

  • Flower Market (by year)

  • Forts

  • Government & Politics

  • Historic Sites & Monuments

  • Holiday

 
  • Hospitals
  • Hotels, Inns, Restaurants
  • Houses
  • Houses, interiors
  • Industry
  • Jails
  • Libraries
  • Lighthouses
  • Mills and Milling
  • Military
  • Museums
  • Offices, Professional
  • Parades
  • Parks, Gardens and Fountains
  • People
  • Performing Arts
  • Police
  • Railroads and Trolleys
  • Reservoirs
  • Rivers & Waterways
  • Roads & Highways
  • Schools
  • Science & Technology
  • Ships, Shipyards
  • Social Service Organizations
  • Sports and Recreation
  • Stores
  • Theaters
  • Workers

 

For specific questions about our holdings, please visit our library or contact the photographic curator during regular business hours or at photos@hsd.org .  For information on cost, or use of images in publications, please click here.  To order photographs, please click here.

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