Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection

Collection

Identifier: GRA 0098-F0001

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection comprises 71 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.

The collection includes the bookplates of 19 different individuals and organizations. These include individuals such as du Pont heiress and University of Delaware benefactor Amy E. duPont (1880-1962), prominent businessmen such as Frank Gifford Tallman (1860-1938), Lewis Rumford II (1905-1997), and Norris Wright (born 1886), as well as State Representative and House Speaker Frank R. Zebley (1883-1960). The bookplates vary in style and bear depictions of classical, pastoral, and maritime images, as well as personal caricatures and photographic portraits. Artists represented in the collection include Charles S. Chapman (1879-1962) and caricaturist and cartoonist Gee Tee Maxwell (1889-1965). The collection contains duplicates of many of the bookplates.

Dates

Creation: 1891, circa 1920-1940

Creator

Hoffecker, Carol E. (Collector, Person)

Language of Materials

Materials predominantly in English with materials in Latin indicated at the file level.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec

Biographical Note

Native Delawarean and Richards Professor Emerita of History Dr. Carol E. Hoffecker is a Delaware historian and author of numerous books chronicling Delaware's history, such asCorporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century (1983), Delaware: The First State (Revised Edition, 1998), Honest John Williams (2000), and Democracy in Delaware: The Story of the First State's General Assembly (2004).

Hoffecker earned her bachelor's degree in history from the University of Delaware and her PhD from Harvard University. Dr. Hoffecker spent three decades as a member of the University of Delaware's history faculty, retiring in 2003. In 1999, she was named Delaware Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She has also served as editor of Delaware History magazine and has been an exhibit curator and consultant to the Historical Society of Delaware, the Delaware Public Archives, and the Rockwood Museum.

Delaware Division of Libraries: LibGuides. "Books by Dr. Carol Hoffecker." http://guides.lib.de.us/content.php?pid=114196&sid=2318212 (accessed October 4, 2012).University of Delaware. "Carol E. Hoffecker: Doctor of Humanities" (PDF file). Downloaded from the University of Delaware website. http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/may/images/HoffeckerCitation.pdf (accessed October 4, 2012).

Extent

77 item

Additional Description

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.

Source

Gift of Carol E. Hoffecker, July 2012.

Materials Available in Alternative Format

Digital copies of the bookplates are available through the University of Delaware Library's Digital Collections website at ARTstor Commons.

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