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Mississippi Cotton Plantation Photograph
by Unknown (1909)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This stereoview photograph depicts African American individuals picking cotton on a Mississippi plantation. Text on the verso describes the process of cotton picking.
National Parks Photograph Album
by Unknown (1920 – 1935)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This photograph album contains 254 photographs documenting travel throughout North America between 1920 and 1935, especially in national parks. While 57 photographs are professional prints sold to tourists, the remaining 197 were taken by the album owner. Included in the identified photographs are Yellowstone and Glacier Parks; Bismark and Rugby in North Dakota; Black Hills, South Dakota (including one of Mount Rushmore under construction); Hot Springs, Arkansas; Brackenbridge Park, San Antonio, Rio Grand Valley, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, and Galveston in Texas; Miami and Daytona Beach in Florida; Georgia; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Monterrey, Mexico; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Grand Canyon in Arizona; Clermont, Iowa; and Los Angeles, Imperial Valley, San Francisco, Coronado Island, San Diego, and Pasadena in California (including the 1920 Rose Bowl parade).
Nicholas Hatter Ledger
by Hatter, Nicholas (1861 – 1863)
2 folders (0.2 linear feet)
The ledger of Nicholas Hatter was written from 1861 to 1863 in Owings Mills, Maryland. The ledger includes monetary transactions of various people. The first several pages were covered with newspaper clippings that seem to be poems. These newspaper clippings cover previous entries made by Hatter. Included with the ledger are other excerpts from newspapers, music sheets, and parts of the ledger that had fallen out. There is also a photograph of a man that was taken in Baltimore, Maryland.
Orlando Wootten Photograph Collection
by Wootten, Orlando (circa 1850 – 1990)
4 boxes, 3 oversize boxes (6.25 linear feet)
This collection contains photographs both taken by and collected by Orlando V. Wootten, a notable local photographer on the Delmarva Peninsula. Included in this collection are color and black and white photographs and negatives of aerial, street and nautical views of Salisbury, Maryland, Laurel, DE and surrounding regions. The collection of images captures local businesses, school buildings, public events, watercraft, natural settings and area attractions from the mid-1950s to the 1990s. There are reproductions of historic photographs of Salisbury and the Delmarva Peninsula dating back to the 1850s that Wootten collected. Also included are documents pertaining to Wootten's Coast Guard service and his family's history.
Palmer Photography Collection
by Unknown (1892 – 1922)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Sepia-toned photographic print of a men's high school baseball team; the letters "BHS" are stitched on the front of their uniforms indicating either Birmingham or Berlin High School, located in Worcester County. Handwritten on the verso, "Joe Boston, Jack Pruitt, Louis Holland, Marvin Holland, Don Moore, Ed Palmer, James Gault."
Penn Central Train Collision Photo Collection
by Unknown (1970s)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains various photographs of a two-train collision. The area and date are unknown, however the two trains are labeled Penn Central 7166, and 7162. The Department of Transportation archives do not indicate these numbers in a train collision. It is possible that the trains collided prior or after the collapse of the Penn Central Railroad company.
Pennsylvania Glass Plate Negatives
by Unknown (circa 1900s)
folders ( linear feet)
This collection of 91 glass plate negatives document life around the turn of the 20th century. Most of the photographs were taken from areas around Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with some possibly from New York or New Jersey. Some of the identified photographs include images of the Strawberry Mansion Fountain in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, the Harrisburg Capitol building, Benjamin West's painting of William Penn's 1701 Treaty with the Delaware Indians, the lion statue outside the Garden Zoological Society or Philadelphia Zoo, the Indian statue on Council Rock at Wissahickon Gorge, the William McKinley Monument in Niagara Square, Buffalo, New York, a Great Northern Railway train engine, the statue of Matthias Baldwin, the Washington Monument in Eakins Oval in Philadelphia, an ironclad warship and the Monument to the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry at Gettysburg. The rest of the photographs are of families, homes, towns, railroads, or ships and shipyards.
Perdue Family Photography Collection
by Unknown (1940s)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains various photographs taken of and by the Perdue family. It also includes various postcards and correspondence. The photos appear to have been taken in the 1940s. Arthur W. Perdue and his family are in the majority of the pictures, although there are some miscellaneous photographs of other families, such as the Truitts.
Pernia Brothers Photography Collection
by Pernia Brothers (circa 1950 – 1970)
6 boxes (3 linear feet)
This collection consists of glass photo slides from the Pernia Brothers. Photographs are from trips to different National Parks, amusement parks, beaches, and gardens in the United States, as well as travels to other countries including Canada and Mexico.
Phil Decker papers
by Decker, Phil (1983 – 2012)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
The Phil Decker papers document his experience with Haitian Migrant Farm Workers in Salisbury, Maryland from 1983-1987 and the exhibit developed around his photographs in 2012. Decker’s experience with the farm workers are documented via photographs, activity reports and correspondence with the Salisbury Seasonal and Migrant Farmer’s Association (SMFA).
Photo of Unidentified Boy
by Unknown (circa 1920)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains one photograph of an unidentified boy dating approximately 1920.
Photograph Files
by Salisbury University (1923 – 2015)
8 cartons (8 linear feet)
The Photographs Collection includes thousands of photographic prints, negatives, contact sheets, and reproductions that document the history of Salisbury University from its groundbreaking in 1923 and founding in 1925 to nearly the present.