Fort Delaware Society collection
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
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, Schiek estate, Oak Knoll Books, 1998.
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.
- Title
- Finding aid for Fort Delaware Society collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections.
- Date
- 2024-07-11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository