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A Pictorial History of Wilmington
Old SwedesChurch (built 1698)seen here in1938.
Map of the city of Wilmington, 1772
Wilmington scene depicted in Harper’s Weekly magazine, 1780s
1830 depiction of the Brandywine Mills by Bass Otis
Old Town Hall (built 1799), depicted on a 1801 map of Wilmington.
The first office of the DuPont Company.
Bancroft mills workers’ housing.
Earliest photograph of Wilmington, Market Street, ca, 1839
Near Jackson and 9th streets, ca. 1860s
Walnut and Front streets, ca. 1860.
Looking over rooftops of stores, homes, and businesses, toward the northwest.
Second Baptist Church
CentralPresbyterian
TrinityEpiscopal
TownHall
Bird’s eye view print of city, ca. 1865.
Market Street
Fourth Street
Old Swedes Church
Market Street from the wharf, 1867
East Water Street, along the tracks.
Shipbuilding at
Harlan and
Hollingsworth,
Late 19th century
Harlan and Hollingsworthoffice and shopson Front Street
Apple Street, a typical immigrant/blue collar street
A view of the city from Maryland Avenue, 1870s.
Spacious homes along Delaware Avenue, 1890s
Tracks, businesses and homes along Front and Walnut streets, 1884
Looking toward the Christina River from Walnut and Water streets, 1884.
Christina River front in 1893
Wilmington’sfirst electrictrolley car in front of The Ebbitt Hotel, on the site of the DuPont Company building, 1888
4th Street at Market Street, 1887
Market Street from 400 block looking south, 1890s
Market Street in 1905 decorated for a Civil War Veterans Reunion
Downtown stores and businesses,
early 1900s.
Postcard views of the city around 1910
Downtown moves uptown to 9th and Market streets, 1918.
View of 10th and King streets in 1910 looking north, showing the old juxtaposed alongside the new. The DuPont Company building is at the far left, the Court House in the center, and early homes line King Street.
The DuPont Company building including the office space, hotel, ballroom and theater, towers over its neighbors. Photograph taken in 1919 just after the old court house was torn down.
Homes along 2nd Street, ca. 1900
New housing goes upAt 20th and Harrisonstreets…
and along FranklinStreet in the early1910s.
Wilmington Police on duty at 4th and Market streets ca. 1920
Along parade route on 4th Street Market & 9th streets
808 Market Street Aldine Theater, 837 Market Street
August Quarterly
King Street near 6th Street
Market near 20th Street Boys waiting for a movie
World War II era
American Car and Foundry
Shopping at 6th and Market Street
Wendell Wilkie Campaign
stop
No history of the city would be complete without mentioning…
Victory Europe
VE Day
May 8, 1945Looking from the Delaware Trust Building
toward the DuPont Building
Looking at the DelawareAvenue split from twovantage points.
Shoppers at Market and 7th streets, 1950
The Rialto Theater was at 220 Market Street. In its earliest years it was a first run theater, but it closed in 1982.
Aerial view from near Shipley and 12th streets, 1950s
Looking north from 2nd Street along Market Street, 1967
National Guard patrol at 6th and Market streets, 1968.
The I.M. Pei Building, 12th & Market streets in 1972, the beginning of the Brandywine Gateway projects.
The EleventhStreet Plaza1976
Looking north from 14th Street toward the Brandywine Gateway, 1988
Ships Tavern District
Keeping what is intact and working to make it viable again.
A few more glimpses of our history…
Shipley at 2nd street,1860s-70s. Men in Civil War uniformsstand outside the house.
Looking north along Market Street toward the Brandywine River bridge, late 19th century.
Millers houses in Brandywine Village, 1893
Scene along the Christina River about 1900
Old Swedes Church
Market at 8th Street before 1906
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station Ca. 1900
Howard High School, 1940
King Street, south of 8th Street, 1949
11th Street from King Street, 1970
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
William Cullen Bryant
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