Archived Blog Posts:  January 2011


Date Posted: Monday, January 24th, 2011

We had a couple come in the other day with a case of the winter blues.  They had seen the article in the newspapers about the Harold Purnell photograph collection being completed.  So they thought they’d come in and look at some old photographs to see if they could shake their blues away.  Boy did […]


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Date Posted: Friday, January 14th, 2011

Monday we take some time to honor the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and his accomplishments for civil rights.  We had a college professor, who is new to Delaware, stop in to see if we had anything on civil rights in Delaware. He was floored when he saw all we had.  We have audio recordings […]


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Date Posted: Friday, January 7th, 2011

Did you know that April 12th will mark the Civil War sesquicentennial?  Did you know that we have over 23 cubic feet of original records, 140 rolls of microfilm, and approximately 60 photographs relating to Delaware Union troops?  In preparation for the anniversary, with the help of our sister agency the Government Information Center, we are […]


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