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Items with subject 'Newsletters'

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Seaford Nylon Plant newsletters

by Seaford Nylon Plant, DuPont Corporation (1938 – 2002)

3 boxes,  2 oversize folders (3 linear feet)

The Seaford Nylon Plant was the centerpiece of Seaford, Delaware for many years, this included the production of the factory newsletter, The Threadline.  Contained within this collection, the newsletter documents the day to day lives of the factory workers, 1938-2002. This included, company picnics, bowling nights, fox hunts, and special events in staff members lives. It even includes poems and paintings by staff. In the Threadline’s combined 54 year run, in addition to employee life, it covered the expansion, and problems of the Nylon factory. The Threadline also shows how Seaford employees where treated. DuPont would reward company service with company made products and service emblems, even producing booklets to show said rewards.  

Associated Subjects: Newsletters • World War, 1939-1945
Identifier: 2017.027
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

United States Post Office (Quantico, Md.) records

by United States Post Office (1889 – 1950)

5 cartons (5 linear feet)

The United States Post Office (Quantico, Md.) records includes account books, money order registrations, and route directories ranging from 1889-1950 with the bulk of the material dating from 1943-1950. These materials document neighborhood mail routes of post carriers and file registrations of the Quantico and Wetipquin communities. Also included is correspondence of the discontinuation of the Clara and Wetipquin office. Further, the collection includes a newsletter series called “The Postal Bulletin”. These bulletins are nationally issued instructions to postmasters to maintain corporate uniformity on matters such as retirement, international mailing, and war bond distribution.

Associated Subjects: Newsletters • Newspapers
Identifier: 2015.195
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

United States Post Office (Vienna, Md.) records

by United States Post Office (1921 – 1954)

7 boxes (3.5 linear feet)

This collection of Vienna, Maryland post office documents spans from 1921 to 1954 with a concentration of material dated between the mid 1930s through the 1940s. The collection includes internal documents issued by the United States Post Office in Vienna, Maryland located in Dorchester County. A variety of printed and handwritten entries on forms were used for documenting the issuance of postal money orders at a time when residents may have lacked individual checking accounts, carrier receipt books for selling stamps and other postal products, cancelled checks, documents for a registry of dispatched items underwritten by the USPO, including C.O.D. mail and insured mail receipts, special delivery mail receipts, “spoiled” mail order inventories, and issues of “The Postal Bulletin,” an internal advisory issued to USPO branches in 1954.

Associated Subjects: Economics • Newsletters • Newspapers
Identifier: 1994.017
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Whitehaven Villager newsletter

by Boyer, Jefferson (1991-1992, 2002)

1 folder (0.1 linear feet)

Whitehaven, Wicomico County, Maryland is an unincorporated community along the Wicomico River. Whitehaven is home to the Whitehaven Ferry, one of the few remaining public ferries in Maryland. The Whitehaven Villager newsletter, 1991-1992, 2002, documents town events and meetings as well as and information about residents.

Associated Subjects: Newsletters
Identifier: 2019.018a
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Wicomico County Board of Education records

by Wicomico County Board of Education (1886 – 2009)

16 boxes (12.5 linear feet)

Wicomico County Board of Education records documents the history of the schools and activities of the Board of Education in Wicomico County, Maryland with the bulk of the material relating to Salisbury, Maryland. The materials date from 1886-2009 with the bulk of the material dating from school activities and the integration of schools, 1960-1979. The evolution of school buildings in Wicomico County is documented through visual materials that include photographs and printed histories and newspaper clippings. Activities in various schools such as sporting events, musical performances, and plays are documented through photographs, programs, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings. Note: some of the folders are restricted due to sensitive content, permission from the archivist to view this files is required.

Associated Subjects: Education • Newsletters • Newspapers • Scrapbooks • African American History • Racism
Identifier: 2010.003
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment

Wicomico High School Class of 1958 Reunions

by Unknown (1946 – 2020)

3 cartons,  1 box (3.5 linear feet)

The Wicomico Highschool Reunions Collection is a collection which features the documentation of each reunion of the Wicomico Highschool Class of 1958 with a range from 1946 to 2020 and a bulk range of 1954 to 2020.

Identifier: 2019.059
Repository: Local History Archives
Attachment: No attachment