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Thurman Adams, Jr., papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0619
Abstract
Democratic Senator Thurman Adams, Jr., (1928-2009) was the longest-serving senator in the history of the Delaware General Assembly. Adams was also the president of T.G. Adams & Sons, Inc., an agricultural feed and grain business in Bridgeville, Delaware. The Thurman Adams, Jr., papers chronicle the personal and professional life of the longest-serving senator (a Democrat from the 19th District) in the history of the Delaware General Assembly.
Dates:
1939-2012; Majority of material found within 1960-2009
Rita Katz Farrell collection related to dance
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0430
Abstract
Reference and research files that Rita Katz Farrell compiled during her career as a critic, freelance writer, and teacher.
Dates:
1920-1993; Majority of material found within 1950-1993
Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0646
Abstract
The Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material comprises approximately 1.6 linear feet of material pertaining to English bibliographer, book collector, and forger Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937). Much of the collection's material was compiled by English bibliographer and book collector John Carter (1905-1975), who co-authored with Graham Pollard (1903-1976) An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), which effectively outed Wise as a...
Dates:
1897-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1934-1975