The Accessions Committee met on July 30, 2024, to review all proposed accessions received since the last quarterly meeting. All accepted donations have been pre-processed and assigned to archivists for further processing. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at the latest additions to our holdings.
New collections created:
Small Manuscript Collections, Delaware Industrial School for Girls, Documents (9200-D34-001)
This collection consists of deeds and court records concerning the property of the Industrial School, along with a book of its by-laws.
Small Manuscript Collections, George R. Lynam, Jr. Collection, Photographs (9200-L17-001)
Photos of the St. George’s Bridge under construction, postcards, and a few photos of the Howell School are included.
A photo of the construction of St. Georges Bridge in 1941. Small Manuscript Collections, George R. Lynam, Jr. Collection, Photographs (9200-L17-001)
Existing collections expanded:
Small Manuscript Collections, Friends of the Delaware Archives, Administrative Records (9200-F09-001)
Small Manuscript Collections, New Castle County Paramedic Unit, Documents (9200-N08-001)
Small Manuscript Collections, Ridgely Collections, Baker Horsey Records (9200-R09-006)
Small Manuscript Collections, Denney Collection, Documents (9200-D23-001)
General Reference Collections, Pamphlet Collection (9270-000-004)
Members of the New Castle County Paramedics unit posing with newly deployed “utility-style” paramedic response vehicles in 2006. Small Manuscript Collections, New Castle County Paramedic Unit, Documents (9200-N08-001)
A page from the Employees’ Handbook of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company’s Nylon Division. General Reference Collections, Pamphlet Collection (9270-000-004)
Books added to the Mabel Lloyd Ridgely Research Room library:
Arriving in Delaware: The Italian-American Experience by Priscilla M. Thompson
Delaware Close to Home by Fred Comegys
Delaware in the Civil War edited by W. Emerson Wilson
Delaware Trees by William S. Taber
Ghost Stories of the Delaware Coast by David J. Seibold and Charles J. Adams III
One Hundred Years of Delaware Football by Elbert Chance
Rounding Third by Harvey Bernard Rubenstein
The Delaware Bay at War! The Coastal Defenses of the Delaware Bay during World War Two by Terrance McGovern
The Delaware Citizen by Cy Liberman and James M. Rosbrow
The Fisher Family published by the American Genealogical Research Institute
Two Hundred in Two Thousand published by the du Pont de Nemours Cemetery Company
