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MSS 0100 <. Archival Collections

 Collection Category
Identifier: MSS 0100 <
The bulk of archival collections in Special Collections are assigned collection call numbers starting at MSS 0100. For additional information on Collection Categories please visit: https://guides.lib.udel.edu/specintro/finding

Found in 604 Collections and/or Records:

Newark Publishing Co. records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0879
Abstract Newark Publishing Co. was a Newark, Delaware, printing business established in the mid-20th century and was owned and operated by William H. Durham from circa 1967 to 1981. Newark Publishing Co. records comprises over 3000 job printing files created by the press for largely Newark, Delaware-based businesses between 1963 and 1981. The collection also includes administrative and financial records of the company and its precursor, the Newark Post weekly newspaper,...
Dates: 1936-1981; Majority of material found within 1971-1981

Martha L. Carothers student artists' books collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0868
Abstract

Martha L. Carothers is a book artist and professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware specializing in graphic design and book arts. The Martha L. Carothers student artists’ books collection comprises over 500 artists’ books created by students of Martha Carothers’ ART 309 course at the University of Delaware from 1983 to 2016. The collection documents thirty-four years of student projects in the application of book-arts concepts and techniques.

Dates: 1983-2016

June D. MacArtor papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0886
Abstract June D. MacArtor (1930-2013) was one of the first twenty-five women admitted to the Delaware bar, later on serving the Attorney General of Delaware's Department of Natural Resources. MacArtor’s primary role was to establish a body of environmental case law used for the state of Delaware. The collection, which spans 1934-2015 reflects MacArtor’s many positions within the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the Delaware Division of Air and Waste Management, and...
Dates: 1934-2015; Majority of material found within 1961-2005

Willard Saulsbury, Jr., papers

 Collection — Box Duplicates
Identifier: MSS 0331
Abstract Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (1861-1927), was a prominent Delaware lawyer and a member of a a leading Delaware political family, serving in the United States Senate from 1913-1919 as as President Pro Tempore of the Senate from 1916 to 1919. The bulk of the Willard Saulsbury, Jr., papers belong to Saulsbury himself, dating from 1908-1926 when Saulsbury was at his political and business peak. The collection, consisting of papers, photographs, maps, and political realia, also includes papers and...
Dates: 1716-1930; Majority of material found within 1908-1926

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983

Townsend family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0445
Abstract

The Townsend family (of Delaware) papers consists of letters, accounts, and other business records, spanning the years 1809-1920, with the majority of the material falling between 1834 and 1894. The collection mainly consists of business letters sent to Samuel and John Townsend, political and personal letters sent to Samuel Townsend, and family correspondence, including twenty letters written by Edmund Townsend during the Civil War.

Dates: 1809-1920; Majority of material found within 1833-1894

Nellie Day Lawrence papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0903
Abstract Nellie Day Lawrence (born 1865) was an editor and club officer of the Turner Grange, Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, in Turner Center, Maine. The Nellie Day Lawrence papers consist of articles and drafts, manuscript copies of the Grange Banner, printed ephemera related to the Turner Grange and Maine schools, correspondence, and other writing. Topics range from musings on the weather and animals, to life in Maine, farming, the World’s Columbian Exposition, the...
Dates: 1879-1942

Philadelphia distributors' paper sample books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0904
Abstract The Philadelphia distributors' paper sample books collection consists of forty-two sample books likely produced between 1900 and 1960. The collection contains samples ranging from paper covers to typewriter, blotting, and gummed papers. Each book typically contains papers in multiple colors, weights, and finishes. While the manufacturers are located in New England and the Midwest, the distributors (when identified) are all based in Philadelphia. One of the manufacturing companies is the...
Dates: circa 1900-1960

Jerome O. Herlihy political campaign ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0896
Abstract

Delaware native and former Delaware Superior Court Judge Jerome O. Herlihy maintained an active connection to national and local politics throughout his life. The Jerome O. Herlihy political campaign ephemera collection spans over a century of United States and Delaware politics, and includes campaign buttons and pins, bumper stickers, a wide array of political artifacts, and paper ephemera.

Dates: 1876-2018

Eileen B. Simpson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0930
Abstract

Eileen Simpson (1918-2002) was an American memoirist, author, and psychotherapist. Topics Simpson wrote about include her marriage to poet John Berryman, her experience as an orphan, her struggles with dyslexia, and her experience getting married after 50. The Eileen Simpson papers contain material related to her books, her short works, business papers, correspondence, and articles by others.

Dates: 1957-2001

Hamilton and Hood papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0519
Abstract

The Hamilton and Hood papers include information about the business ventures of John Hamilton and John M. Hood, grocers and wine merchants in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century. Correspondence with merchants regarding prices and shipment as well as orders placed by individuals are present.

Dates: 1796, 1809-1831

Harriet Elizabeth Hutchison papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0513
Abstract

Documents and memorabilia associated with Harriet Elizabeth Hutchison's service as a nurse in the Army during World War II, and some post-war personal notes and official documents.

Dates: 1943-1974

William Axton Stokes papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0512
Abstract

Materials documenting William Axton Stokes' personal life, as a Major in the Civil War and as a member of the Philadelphia bar in the mid-nineteenth century, through correspondence and writings.

Dates: 1842-1874

Henry Clay Reed papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0499
Abstract

Henry Clay Reed, 1899-1972, was a renound Delaware historian and history professor at the University of Delaware for forty years, researching, teaching, writing, and editing numerous articles and books.

The Henry Clay Reed papers, spanning the dates from 1915-1974, contains legal documents, photographs, microfilm, correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera from the historian and University of Delaware professor.

Dates: 1833-1979; Majority of material found within 1915-1972

Richard Hoffman David Mamet collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0496
Abstract

A collection of materials related to American playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, assembled by theater collector and book dealer Richard Hoffman.

Dates: 1975-2002

Oliver Onions papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0492
Abstract

Short stories and poetry typescripts as well as travel ephemera and journals written in the first half of the 20th century by British novelist and short story writer Oliver Onions.

Dates: 1927-1938

Rudi Holzapfel letters to Ellen Shannon-Mangan

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0491
Abstract

Letters from Irish poet Rudi Holzapfel to the biographer of Clarence Mangan, Ellen Shannon-Mangan.

Dates: 1978-2000

Frank W. Tober collection of French Revolutionary-era song sheets and pamphlets

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0473
Abstract

Frank W. Tober, a chemist with the Du Pont Company, maintained a wide range of book collecting interests including the era of Napoleon and the French Revolution. This collection comprises song sheets and pamphlets relating to the political situation in France during the late 1780s and 1790s.

Dates: 1789-1794, undated

Richard Hoffman David Rabe collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0490
Abstract

Theater collector and bookdealer Richard Hoffman's David Rabe collection consists of playscripts and programs from four of the American playwright's works, as well as a poster.

Dates: 1971-1985

Nancy Hoyt Paul Bowles collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0486
Abstract

The Nancy Hoyt Paul Bowles collection consists of various written material by or about Paul Bowles.

Dates: 1943-1994

John Reade family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0482
Abstract

The John Reade Family Papers consist primarily of correspondence to John Reade, a successful businessman and land speculator of Red Hook and Poughkeepsie, New York, from various family members.

Dates: 1709-1879; Majority of material found within 1793-1808

William Homer Papers Related to Albert Pinkham Ryder

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0479
Abstract

The William Homer papers related to Albert Pinkham Ryder contains research material about American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder collected by William Homer, the scholar, Art History professor, and author of Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams.

Dates: 1883-1999; Majority of material found within 1980-1989

R. Hoe & Company collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0469
Abstract

The R. Hoe and Company collection includes catalogs, price lists, patents, and other printed ephemera related to the printing machinery the comapny produced and sold.

Dates: 1876-1929

Donald Barthelme collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0466
Abstract

The collection contains galleys, proofs, manuscripts, published periodicals, and correspondence by the American novelist and short story writer Donald Barthelme.

Dates: 1963-1991

Autograph Abraham Lincoln documents from the Lincoln Collection at the University of Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0465
Abstract

Documents in the University of Delaware’s Lincoln Collection that contain Abraham Lincoln’s original signature or other autograph writing, including rare signed copy of “A Resolution,” submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States. Part of a much larger collection of Lincolniana that came to the University from the Lincoln Club of Delaware in 1972.

Dates: 1855-1887