It's shaping up to be a beautiful day on the grounds of Hagley Museum and Library. While some of us may be stuck inside today, here are some locals with the right idea. This photograph of people canoeing and swimming in the Brandywine Creek is undated, but was probably taken between 1890 and 1920.
It is part of our collection of DuPont Company Brandywine powder yards and neighboring worker communities' photographs (Accession 2017.226), which contains over 1,250 images from original photographs, copy work from other Hagley Museum & Library collections, and items loaned for copy to Hagley Museum & Library from various individuals. These photographs document the landscape and buildings at or near the DuPont explosives manufacturing plants along Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware.
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