Image Gallery
The University of Delaware Library Residency honors Pauline A. Young, a civil rights leader, historian, author, and librarian for over thirty years.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), first husband of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections, Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers.
The old Howard School that Pauline Young attended from kindergarten through high school. It was located on the corner of 12th Street and Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware. When it was founded in 1867 it was the only school in Delaware to offer a high school education to blacks. In 1928, the high school moved to a new building located at 13th and Poplar Streets.
Photo courtesy of Delaware Historical Society.
Young (2nd from right) with fellow charter members of the University of Pennsylvania's Gamma chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. (1921)
Photo courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Libraries Digital archives.
The new Howard High School building, circa 1930, located at 13th and Poplar Streets in Wilmington, Delaware. Young was a teacher and librarian at the Howard High School for over 30 years.
Photo courtesy of the Delaware Historical Society.
Howard High school library, circa 1930, as it would have appeared when Young worked at the school.
Photo courtesy of the Delaware Historical Society.
Howard High School Faculty, circa 1930. Pictured from left to right:
Front Row: Robert Harris, Anna Broadnax, Helen Worley Webb, George Anderson Johnson (principal), Pauline Young (librarian), Sara Strickland Scott, Millard Naylor.
Second Row: Ethel Barner Harris, Charlotte Slowe, Josephine Weston, Caroline B. Williams, Nellie B. Taylor, Sadie Jones, Thelma Trice Young, Arleon C. Bowser, Gwendolyn Redding
Third Row: Arthur Wheeler, Marguerite Turner, M. Leila Young (mother of Pauline Young), Etta Woodlen, James A. Gardiner, Lillian Spencer Mayo, George Oscar Carrington
Top Row: Emanuel Whitten, Pauline Coleman, Nathalie Anderson Cross, George Whitten.
Photo courtesy of Howard High School Alumni Association.
Historical marker describing the origins of Arden. In 1950 the village established the first intentionally integrated community in Delaware in neighboring Ardencroft where Young lived the second half of her life.
Photo taken by University by Delaware Library staff.
"You are Welcome Hither," is the message displayed on the Stile, one of Arden's historic landmarks.
Photo taken by University of Delaware Library Staff.
Photo portrait of Pauline A. Young.
Photo courtesy of Arden Craft Shop Musuem.
Charcoal portrait in Pauline A. Young Memorabilia Room at Howard High School.
Photo taken by University of Delaware Library staff.
Mural at 10th Street and Pine Street, Wilmington, Delaware showing historically important figures in local African American community. Young featured in the top row on the right of the right circle.
Photo taken by University of Delaware Library staff.
Close up of mural at 10th Street and Pine Street, Wilmington, Delaware showing historically important figures in local African American community. Young featured in top row on the right.
Photo taken by University of Delaware Library staff.
