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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

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

Malcolm L. Mackenzie papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0611
Abstract This collection contains materials relating to Malcolm L. Mackenzie's publicity firm Malcolm L. Mackenzie & Associates and Mackenzie's personal involvement with the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, other local cultural institutions, and his interests in general maritime history and historic ships. Materials include publicity materials, written reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, facsimile maps, newsletters, photographs, photograph negatives, slides, and sailing and...
Dates: circa 1926-2007

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

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Correspondence 3
Biographies (documents) 2
Color photographs 2
Delaware--History--18th century 2
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Ephemera (general) 2
Historic ships--18th century 2
Historic ships--19th century 2
Invitations 2
Maps (documents) 2
Memorandums 2
Minutes (administrative records) 2
Newspapers 2
Obituaries 2
Photograph albums 2
Printed ephemera 2
Realia 2
Scrapbooks 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--20th century 2
Account books 1
Advertisements 1
African American authors 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--21st century 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Awards 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Black-and-white negatives 1
Black-and-white slides 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Bridgeville (Del.) 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Buttons (information artifacts) 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Color negatives 1
Color slides 1
Commonplace books 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Delaware--Politics and government--20th century 1
Delaware--Politics and government--21st century 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Fairs 1
Financial records 1
Financial statements 1
Freemasons--20th century 1
Freemasons--21st century 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic preservationists 1
Historic ships--17th century 1
Historic ships--20th century 1
Historical maps 1
Histories (literature genre) 1
Invoices 1
Johannesburg (South Africa)--History--20th century 1
Land surveys 1
Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
Later prints 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Legislators 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Lithographic engravings (prints) 1
Logbooks--20th century 1
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Cherokee 1
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Names
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
American Pilot (Training ship) 1
Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
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Bluenose (Ship) 1
Bluenose II (Ship) 1
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
Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Delaware. Supreme Court 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fogel Grip (Ship) 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
HMS Rose (Ship : Replica) 1
Hagley Museum 1
Half Moon (Ship : Replica) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
James B. Eads (Ship) 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Kalmar Nyckel (Ship : Replica) 1
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation 1
Lady Maryland (Ship: Replica) 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Little Key (Ship) 1
Long, David J. 1
MS Western Sun (Ship) 1
Mackenzie, Malcolm L., 1926-2000 1
Maine Maritime Academy 1
Malcolm L. Mackenzie & Associates 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Minner, Ruth Ann, 1935- 1
Miss Kathy (Ship) 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Mohawk (Ship) 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Phillips Academy 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
SS Stones River (Ship) 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Susan Constant (Ship) 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
USF Constellation (Ship) 1
USS Delaware (Ship) 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Delaware Research Foundation 1
University of Delaware--History--19th century 1
University of Delaware--History--20th century 1
University of Delaware. Marine Laboratory 1
Vallandigham, Edward Noble, 1854-1930 1
Vasa (Warship) 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wilmington (Ship) 1
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