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Title: A chart of Delaware Bay and River, containing a full and exact description of the shores, creeks, harbours, soundings, shoals, sands and bearings of the most considerable land marks ,&c. &c.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3527; APSdigobj3527
Description: Original in North American pilot. . . London: Laurie and Whittle: 1800. No. 10.
Creator: Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Delaware Bay; Delaware; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1794 May 12]

Title: Walam Olum
Identifier(s): graphics:2683; APSimg7028
Description: Ink sketch of Delaware Indian pictographs with English translations, simple signs found in the Linapi (sic) Wallamolum.; Writings II, 1830-1840. Graphic Systems of North America.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Rafinesque, C.S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Source: C.S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R124-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America; Delaware Indians; Delaware language--Writing; Wallam olum
Date: 1833

Title: "Map of Delaware Bay and River from the Ocean to Trenton in New Jersey"
Identifier(s): graphics:5719; local: APSdigobj3446
Description: Includes Lenape place names. Full title on map: "Map of Delaware Bay and River from the Ocean to Trenton in New Jersey, copied from the History by J. Campanius Holm the Swedish Historian written in 1642 to 1648"
Creator: Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862et al
Subject: Maps; Delaware--Maps; Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.); Names, Geographical; Pennsylvania--Maps; New Jersey--Maps
Date: n. d.

Title: Walam Olum
Identifier(s): graphics:2684; APSimg7027
Description: Ink sketch of Delaware Indian pictographs with English translations, simple signs found in the Linapi (sic) Wallamolum.; Writings II, 1830-1840. Graphic Systems of North America.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Rafinesque, C.S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Source: C.S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R124-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America; Delaware Indians; Delaware language--Writing; Wallam olum
Date: 1833

Title: Delaware Bay
Identifier(s): graphics:5721; local: APSdigobj3445
Description: Includes Lenape place names.
Creator: Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862et al
Subject: Maps; Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.); Names, Geographical; Delaware--Maps; New Jersey--Maps
Date: n. d.

Title: Woman's Dance Songs (not used in Big House) - Delaware, Shawnee, and Iroquois versions
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_2810; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 12
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware dance; Shawnee dance; Iroquois dance; Stomp dance
Date: 1928-05-10

Title: Delaware celebration
Identifier(s): graphics:4157; APSimg6930
Description: Engraving of a group of Delaware men and women gathered around campfire, eating and celebrating, Pennsylvania.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Vernier
Source: Etats-Unis d'Amerique (Mss.917.3.R76); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.917.3.R76-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Pennsylvania; Delaware Indians
Date: 1837

Title: Timothy Horsfield to Benjamin Franklin, Fox, et al, 1757 January 21
Identifier(s): text:160613
Description: Jo Peecy, Lewis Montour, both friendly Indians, have arrived with pass. Comments on an objectionable Indian who has left.
Subject: Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Delaware Indians
Date: 1757-01-21

Title: Reuben Wilson (Weekpakehing)
Identifier(s): graphics:2546; APSimg6812
Description: Black and white full-length portrait photograph, side-view, of Reuben Wilson (Weekpakehing), an Oklahoma Delaware Indian. In full native attire including: head-dress, gourd rattle, knife, beaded belt, moccasins. Holding a drawn bow with a bone point arrow.; Folder III (9C2y); Freeman guide #937; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Wilson, Reuben
Source: Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.126-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Oklahoma; Delaware Indians
Date: 1941

Title: Delaware River, from Naaman's Creek and Philadelphia to Trenton, including Lenape place names
Identifier(s): graphics:5718; local: APSdigobj3447
Description: Includes Lenape place names.
Creator: Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862et al
Subject: Maps; Delaware River; Pennsylvania--Maps; New Jersey--Maps; Names, Geographical
Date: n. d.

Title: Monographia plantarum Lancastriensis, 1792
Identifier(s): text:288195
Description: 1 Volumes; 1 volume. Bound with No. 19 is "Samlungen von dem was ich aus dem Thierreich habe bemerken können," 1 vol. This contains Muhlenberg's observations of animals, birds, and insects in and near Lancaster; and also a list of the native animals of Vermont. Abstract: Descriptions of trees, shrubs, and plants, including local names in German, English, and Indian languages. Volume 2; volume 1 (#20) in German. Old call number 580 M89m.
Subject: Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815; Natural history; Delaware language
Date: 1792

Title: Witapanoxwe's Song
Identifier(s): audio:4151; APSdigrec_2808; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 10
Description: Vision recital song, or atehomwin song, of James C. Webber, whose Delaware name is Witapano'xwe.; Song may be of Seneca or Shawnee origin. Contains some Munsee terms. This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Speck, Frank G. Delaware Indian material, 1928. (Mss.Rec.4);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--Music; Shawnee Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: Debate around council fire
Identifier(s): graphics:4152; APSimg6931
Description: Engraving of a group of Delaware men and white men around campfire, debating.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Vernier
Source: Etats-Unis d'Amerique (Mss.917.3.R76); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.917.3.R76-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Pennsylvania; Delaware Indians
Date: 1837

Title: Timothy Horsfield to William Denny, 1757 January 21
Identifier(s): text:160614
Description: Montour and Peeby have arrived. John Smalling (alias Lucas) died of smallpox afer two months' illness, but got religion before his death. Has asked relatives to give up Indian ways. Blanket of Indian Nicodemus is one given to Frenh Margaret and later found at site of murder. Previous description: "Re: Indians"
Subject: Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773; Denny, William , 1709-1765; Delaware Indians
Date: 1757-01-21

Title: Cow bone roach spreaders
Identifier(s): graphics:2559; APSimg6811
Description: Color pencil sketch of four tools drawn by Joe Washington, an Oklahoma Delaware Indian.; Folder III (9C2c); Freeman guide #935; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Washington, Joe
Source: Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.126-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Oklahoma; Delaware Indians
Date: 1946

Title: Nick Peters
Identifier(s): graphics:1759; local: APSimg8000
Description: Black and white photograph of man standing near doorway, Six Nations reserve, Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada.; Folder: Six Nations reserve-Ohsweken; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Wallace, Paul A.W.et al
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Ontario; Delaware Indians
Date: 1936

Title: Monument at the Treaty tree
Identifier(s): graphics:3306; APSimg6883
Description: Pencil sketch of the monument commemorating the signing of the 1692 treaty between William Penn and the Delaware Indians, in Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; Number 103; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Day, Sherman, 1806-1884
Source: Ephraim Dyer IV collection, ca. 1842, of the sketches of Sherman Day (Mss.917.48.D33); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.917.48.D33-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Pennsylvania; Delaware Indians
Date: 1842

Title: Timothy Horsfield to Benjamin Franklin,Fox, et al, 1756 November 29
Identifier(s): text:160405
Description: Indians with smallpox come to Bethlehem to be cared for. No room, a nuisance. Asks for aid.
Subject: Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Delaware Indians
Date: 1756-11-29

Title: Pictograph signatures of Native leaders
Identifier(s): graphics:2277; local: APSimg7144
Description: Black and white photomechanical print of 112 pictograph signature of Native leaders, with English translation of names and dates of treaties or other documents signed from 1682-1785. Lenape (Delaware) and Nanticoke names identified, included Tamanend. Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) signatories as well in most cases specified as Onondaga, Tuscarora, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga, or Mohawk.; From Pennsylvania Archives, Volume 1, 1664-1747. Previously cataloged as "Iroquois hieroglyphs."; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Subject: Native American Images; Iroquois Indians; Delaware Indians; Nanticoke Indians; Haudenosaunee
Date: n.d.

Title: Plan of the boundary lines between the provinces of Maryland and the three lower counties of Delaware
Identifier(s): graphics:10831; Realms of Gold identifier: 902, 649: [ca. 1768]: Sm57madL Large
Description: Full title: Plan of the boundary lines between the provinces of Maryland and the three lower counties of Delaware, with part of the parallel of latitude which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. [The line was run by Mason and Dixon. London: ca. 1768].; Mease presented several "rare and interesting maps, of early date, of the division lines between Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, accompanied by some explanatory notes." The gifts were listed as: 1. A plan of the Boundary line between the Province of Maryland, and the three lower Counties on Delaware, with facts (?) of the paralel [sic] of Latitude, which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsa. 2. A plan of the famous "West Line," or paralel [sic] of latitude, which is the boundary between the Provinces of Maryland and Pennsa. which was run by Mason and Dixon in 1762 & 8. 3. A map of that part of America, where a degree of latitude was measured for the Royal Society by Mason and Dixon in 1768 [Archives. J. Mease to APS, 19 May 1826; Minutes; Donation Book; Transactions, n.s., vol. 3]. Wheat: 497 See: Thomas D. Cope, "Degrees along the west line . . ." APS Proceedings, 1949. Provenance: Presented and autographed by James Mease, 19 May 1826, another copy presented by Chew Family Trust, 15 November 1982.
Subject: Maps.; Maryland.; Pennsylvania.; Mason-Dixon Line.; Delaware.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1768