Delaware Postcard Collection

The Delaware postcard collection comprises over two thousand postcards of Delaware and nearby areas, representing well-known Delaware buildings, monuments, views, and small town life, including street scenes and domestic buildings.

The postcards in the collection date primarily from the very end of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, although there are also postcards published into the twenty-first century. Most of the cards in the collection were commercially produced and represent well-known Delaware buildings, monuments, and views, such as the State Capitol in Dover, Wilmington's downtown buildings and historic structures, Rehoboth and other beaches and boardwalks , and the University of Delaware/Delaware College . A number of the cards, though, document small town life in Delaware, including street scenes and domestic buildings. In addition to documenting the built landscape of Delaware as it existed during the last hundred years, some of these images may not exist in any other format.