Last year, the Delaware Public Archives expanded the "Hometown Delaware" project to the Internet by displaying many of its photographs online in order to identify the names of Delawareans in the pictures. Because so many people responded to this new online feature, the Archives has added another group of photos with almost 100 individuals to identify. The "Hometown Delaware" program began in 2006 in order to identify many of the individuals in the Archives’ collection of over 800,000 photographs. So far, the project has identified approximately 2,000 individuals.
To participate in this new web component of Hometown Delaware, visit the Delaware Public Archives website at archives.delaware.gov. The pictures are organized by the counties where they originated. With more than 800,000 photographs in the Delaware Public Archives collection, the photographs will continue to change as more individuals are identified.
For more information about the project, contact Lori Hatch at the Delaware Public Archives, 744-5067, lori.hatch@state.de.us
