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Delaware Miscellany collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0598
Abstract
The Delaware Miscellany collection includes three large, green buckram-bound volumes compiled by William Ditto Lewis, which contain various documents pertaining to the history of Delaware and the surrounding region, and the University of Delaware.
Dates:
1825-1958; Majority of material found within 1920-1958
S. Marston Fox : 20th century civic leader, communist lobbyist and architect of parkland and historical preservation : typescript
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0053
Abstract
One photocopy of a biographical essay titled, "S. Marston Fox: 20th Century Civic Leader, Communist Lobbyist and Architect of Parkland and Historical Preservation," as well as a collection of documents relating to Fox, written shortly after his death, in 1984.
Dates:
1984 January
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