Archived Blog Posts:  July 2010


Date Posted: Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Have you ever had one of those days where you just can’t seem to remember anything?  I know it seems to be happening to me more frequently.  I had a gentleman call the other day.  He was calling for his uncle who now lives in Phoenix.  It seems his uncle couldn’t remember the date of […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

It is that time:  the sounds of the midway, the excitement of seeing your favorite act, the sounds of crunching at the demolition derby, and the smell of all sorts of deep fried items.  It’s Delaware State Fair week. Woo hoo!!! Did you know that it used to be called the Kent- Sussex Fair? So […]


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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Recently, the Archives was contacted by a gentleman in Pennsylvania who had a lantern slide collection of Jackson & Sharp Company railroad car photographs.  Purchased at a railroad memorabilia auction, the collection was probably used by a Jackson & Sharp traveling salesman who used the slides to promote his company’s rail cars to perspective buyers. […]


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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

A researcher was looking at the ABC News internet site the other day and came across this video of the construction of a new Boeing 737.  It was built for Southwest Airlines to advertise their flights to Florida.  He remembered as a child seeing advertisements on trains. He wondered if we had any photographs of trains […]


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