GRA 0098. Graphic Materials - Delaware Miscellaneous Literary & Historical Manuscripts

Collection Category

Identifier: GRA 0098

Staff Only

Items housed in this Collection Category are single items or small collections of graphic materials related to Delaware. Larger graphic collections are found in the collection series beginning with GRA 0100. The call number for sources in this category also includes a folder number: GRA 0098, F####. Graphic material may also be found in other archival collections. For additional information on Collection Categories please visit: https://guides.lib.udel.edu/specintro/finding

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection

Collection

Identifier: GRA 0098-F0001

Abstract

The Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection comprises 76 bookplates belonging to prominent early twentieth-century Delawareans and regional organizations. Individuals represented include statesmen, businessmen, and members of distinguished families, such as the du Pont and Warner families.

Dates: 1891, circa 1920-1940

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Walter E. Holt, Jr., photographs of the Frear family and letter from J. Allen Frear, Jr.

Collection

Identifier: GRA 0098-F0008

Abstract

The Walter E. Holt, Jr., photographs of the Frear family and letter from J. Allen, Frear, Jr. contains seven photographic portraits taken between 1954 and 1957 by Walter E. Holt, Jr. of Delaware Senator J. Allen Frear, Jr., his wife, Esther Frear, their son Fred, and their daughter Clara. Also included is a letter from Senator Frear to Walter Holt, believed to be the photographer's father.

Dates: circa 1951-1957

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Wilmington, Delaware : silk screen map on linen handkerchief

Collection

Identifier: GRA 0098-F0002

Abstract

American textile artist Tammis (Margaret Thomas) Keefe (1913-1960) designed this vintage fabric handkerchief depicting a map of Wilmington, Delaware, which was silk-screened by J. H. Kimball, Inc., New York.

Dates: circa 1944-1960

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Gee Tee Maxwell political cartoons and caricatures

Collection

Identifier: GRA 0098-F0007

Abstract George T. (Gee Tee) Maxwell, a native of New Castle, Delaware (1889-1965), was a reporter, copy-writer, and cartoonist for various newspapers, including the Wilmington News Journal from 1920 to 1940. The collection contains five prints, made circa 2010s, of political cartoons and political caricatures originally created by Gee Tee Maxwell, and believed to date from the 1920s. The prints were made by Lead Graffiti, a Newark, Delaware, letterpress lab. Also included...

Dates: circa 2010

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

S.B. Woo for Lieutenant Governor campaign poster

Collection

Identifier: GRA 0098-F0010

Abstract

S. B. Woo, a Chinese-American physics professor and politician, ran for lieutenant governor of Delaware in 1984, winning the election. This item is a campaign poster from that campaign.

Dates: 1984

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections