The Special Collections Department of the University of Delaware Library
announces a new on-line exhibition: Picturing Delaware: Maps and
Illustrations of the First State. It can be viewed at
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec
This is a version of our current gallery exhibition, which can be seen
in the Special Collections Gallery until December 19, 2001.
The focus of the exhibition is the landscape of Delaware as portrayed by
artists, photographers, and mapmakers. The exhibition shows the
evolution of the state from predominately agricultural to
urban/suburban. The lost world of peach orchards and small town parades
seems very distant from the “banking capital” of today. Yet, the
changes, particularly in the southern part of the State, are relatively
recent. By using images from the past two hundred years, it is possible
to see both those things that have changed and those that remain the
same
.
The exhibition is drawn from the Delaware Collection of the University
of Delaware Library. The Delaware Collection is an evolving collection
that strives to document all aspects of history and life in Delaware,
and all geographic areas of the state, from the prehistoric period and
earliest plans for settlement by the Swedes to contemporary life. The
collection includes the history, culture, domestic, business, and social
aspects of Delaware as documented in books, letters, legal documents,
diaries, journals, account books and ledgers, maps, printed ephemera,
family papers, business records, archival material, photographs and
graphic materials, and miscellaneous items.
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Iris Snyder
Special Collections
University of Delaware Library
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