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Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract
Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates:
1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975
George Adolphus Storey papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0586
Abstract
The papers of George Adolphus Storey, R.A., prolific British painter and longtime teacher of perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, include both published and unpublished books, poems, plays, fiction, essays, lectures, notes, sketches, inventories, diaries, and other personal writings. Also included are several items belonging to his daughter, Mary Gladys Storey, an actress well-known for her charitable work during World Wars I and II.
Dates:
1848-1946; Majority of material found within 1848-1919
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- Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
- Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
- Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
- Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
- Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
- Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
- Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph 1
- Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
- Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
- Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
- Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
- Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833-1898 1
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
- Dulong, Jean Louis 1
- Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
- Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
- Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
- Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902 1
- Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
- Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
- Hodgson, J. E. (John Evan), 1831-1895 1
- Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
- Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921 1
- Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898 1
- Miss Gladys Storey’s Bovril Fund 1
- Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
- Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 1
- Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
- Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
- Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 1
- Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
- Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
- Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
- St. John’s Wood Clique 1
- Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus), 1834-1919 1
- Storey, Mary Gladys, 1886-1978 1
- Walker, Frederick, 1840-1875 1
- Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
- Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
- Wynfield, David Wilkie, 1837-1887 1
- Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918 1 + ∧ less
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