MSS 0100 <. Archival Collections
Found in 604 Collections and/or Records:
William J. Cohen papers
The William J. Cohen Papers, spanning the dates 1967-2001, comprises 37 linear feet of materials that document William J. Cohen's (b. 1941) entire career as an urban and environmental planner in Delaware.
Tennessee Williams collection
The Tennessee Williams collection, spanning the dates 1939-2013, consists of an extensive collection of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, printed material, and ephemera related to American playwright Tennessee Williams.
Everett C. and Louise Staton Johnson papers
The Everett C. & Louise Stanton Johnson papers concern the personal affairs of prominent Delaware publisher and politician Everett C. Johnson (1877-1926) and his wife Louise Staton Johnson (1882-1977). In addition, the collection contains material from their Newark publishing house, the Press of Kells, which brought the Arts and Crafts Movement to the community from 1916 to 1918.
Bright family papers
Lewis family papers
George Handy papers
John Frederick Lewis papers
Ayer family papers
The Ayer family Papers document the lives of two generations of the Ayer family, Joseph Cullen Ayer (1839-1918) of Massachusetts and Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr. (1866-1944), the second son of Joseph and Carrie Ayer.
Dodd, Mead Company archive
The Dodd, Mead & Company archive contains a limited number of materials from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries relating to American publishing company Dodd, Mead & Company. The bulk of the material concerns the business arrangements between the publisher and various Black American authors.
Latimer family papers
St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery Poetry Project posters and fliers
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery was founded in 1966 in New York City's East Village. Inspired by the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s, the Project served as a nexus for New York poets in the 1960s and 1970s. The collection comprises forty fliers and posters featuring reproductions of handmade artwork that promoted and publicized poetry readings and other activities of the landmark project during the 1970s through the mid-1980s.
Langston Hughes ephemera collection
Programs and advertising materials for personal appearances of American author Langston Hughes and for dramatic productions of his works.
Pagany archive
The archive of the little magazine Pagany: a native quarterly consists of 5.5 linear feet of material, which spans the dates 1925–1970, with the bulk of the material dating from 1929 to 1933. The collection includes founder and editor Richard Johns's personal papers and all known surviving material related to the publication of Pagany (some letters and manuscript were destroyed in a 1932 fire or stolen from Johns's car the same year).
Louis Untermeyer papers
The Louis Untermeyer papers consist of five linear feet of manuscript material abandoned by Untermeyer when he sold his Adirondack home, Stony Water, around 1970. Dating from 1902 through 1972, with the bulk of the papers dating 1912–1935, the collection is composed of correspondence, proofs, lists, scrapbooks, notes, photographs, programs, announcements, lectures, anthologies, poems, reviews, essays, and a bookplate.
John Wood Hall shipping papers
John Wood Hall (1817-1892) was a merchant shipowner and Governor of Delaware. The Hall papers contain approximately five hundred records from John W. Hall's merchant and shipping businesses.
Charles Mast collection of film and performing arts programs, publications, and ephemera
The Charles Mast collection of film and performing arts programs, publications, and ephemera offers rich visual and informational resources relating to the history of film and theater and also documents live performance events in greater Delaware area for over six decades. The collection comprises 6.5 linear feet of materials, spanning the dates between 1940 and 2013, and includes books, theater programs, concert programs, lobby cards, posters, ticket stubs, and ephemera.
John Masefield letters to Mary Jerrold
This collection comprises John Masefield’s letters to English actress Mary Jerrold, a selection of privately printed poems, and a few photographic postcards.
Howard McCord papers
The Howard McCord Papers include 2.7 linear feet of letters, poems, brochures, essays, clippings, journals, pamphlets, and transcripts, which span the dates 1930 to 1972 (bulk dates 1964–1970). The majority of the collection was generated by the collaboration between McCord and poet and social critic Walter Lowenfels in co-authoring The Life of Fraenkel’s Death.
E. E. Thoyts “Old Paper Watermarks”
E. E. Thoyts “Old Paper Watermarks” contains manuscript materials on antique paper watermarks collected by Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (1860–1949), a British researcher who resided in Berkshire.
En Passant archive
The En Passant Archive, spanning the dates 1970 – 1983, is the archive of the little poetry magazine En Passant, edited by James Costello in Wilmington, Delaware. The 1.3 linear feet of material in the collection consists of letters from contributors, administrative correspondence, little magazines, including twelve issues of En Passant, and the manuscripts of most of the thirteen issues of the magazine published between 1975 and 1983.
John W. Forney: The Letters of "Occasional"
This small collection, The Letters of “Occasional,” by the American editor and publisher John Wien Forney, comprises two volumes of news clippings “compiled and revised from the files of The Press by James Forney,” the son of John Forney. The news clippings represent the elder Forney’s editorial column in the Philadelphia Press, spanning the dates August 30, 1857-June 25, 1861.
Morris family papers
Hugh M. Morris (1878-1966) was a Delaware lawyer and served as a federal district judge from 1919-1930. The Morris family papers, spanning the dates 1740-1985 and including legal deeds, account books, personal and busienss correspondence, legal records and photographs, documents the lives and career of Judge Hugh Morris and members of his extended family and network.
Henry Carvill Lewis papers
This collection contains materials belonging to American geologist and educator Henry Carvill Lewis (1853–1888). Most of the papers are canceled checks written by Lewis between 1885 and 1886 for a variety of services and cash, or bills and receipts for services.
Kasebier collection
Laurence Binyon correspondence
A collection of correspondence from British poet and playwright, Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) to G. Herbert Thring and D. Kilham Roberts, lawyers for the Society of Authors, concerning problems or questions of copyright laws (United States and British).