Fort Delaware Society collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1017

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Fort Delaware Society was founded in 1950 to preserve Fort Delaware as a historical site. This collection comprises materials related to the Society and the fort from the Schiek estate. This collection includes meeting minutes, newsletters, and event programs of the Fort Delaware Society; photographs of people and buildings at Fort Delaware, including divers retrieving cannonballs from underwater near the fort; newspaper clippings about Fort Delaware; and maps of Fort Delaware.

Dates

Creation: 1865; 1939-1980

Creator

Schiek family (Family)

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec

Extent

0.33 linear foot (1 box)

Metadata Rights Declarations

License: This record is made available under an Attribution 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase, Schiek estate, Oak Knoll Books, 1998.

Permalink

https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss1017

Processing Information

This collection is unprocessed, which means material has not been organized or housed archivally, and is still in the order and condition in which it was received. This preliminary collection description was created by Jessica Thelen, based on a survey conducted in June 2022.