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William S. Auchincloss scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0420
Abstract This one-volume scrapbook, with contents spanning 1862- 1892, includes correspondence, maps, tickets, papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, advertisements, and drawings; and was largely assembled from the professional activities of William S. Auchincloss. Evidence within the scrapbook points to the wide range of interests that captured the attention of Auchincloss, a civil and mechanical engineer, originally from New York who later resided in Wilmington, Delaware, and in...
Dates: 1862-1892
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

World fairs and expositions collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0630
Abstract

This artificial collection comprises a variety of types of material documenting world fairs and expositions, spanning the dates between 1851 and 1967, with the bulk of the collection dating from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Material consists of printed matter and ephemera, including newspapers, programs, invitations, maps, brochures, viewbooks, advertisements, stationery, contracts, bonds, trade cards, and a scrapbook; photographs and prints; and realia souvenirs.

Dates: 1851-1967; Majority of material found in 1893
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Advertising fans 1
Albumen prints 1
Authors, American--19th century 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Brazil--Description and travel 1
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Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Business letters 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Civil engineering--History--19th century 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Contracts 1
Correspondence 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Engineers 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Inventors--United States--History--20th century 1
Invitations 1
London (England)--History--19th century 1
Mechanical engineering--History--19th century 1
Montréal (Québec)--History--20th century 1
New Orleans (La.)--History--19th century 1
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Newspapers 1
Pennants 1
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 1
Postcards 1
Programs (documents) 1
Punch (London, England) 1
Railroads--History--19th century 1
Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--20th century 1
San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century 1
Scarves (costume accessories) 1
South America--Description and travel 1
Souvenirs 1
Stationery 1
Stereographs 1
Stereoscopes 1
Tickets 1
Trade cards (advertising) 1
Travel--United States--19th century 1
Viewbooks 1
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Names
Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart), 1842-1928 1
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 1
Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris 1
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) 1
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.) 1
Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) 1
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Pears (A. & F.) Limited 1
United States. Navy 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.) 1
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