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Frederic A. Blank papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0572
Abstract

The papers of centenarian, World War I veteran, and retired wall covering entrepreneur Frederic Blank, spanning close to 150 years, illustrate the varied life of a twentieth-century businessman and provide important sample books of iconic mid-twentieth-century American wall coverings.

Dates: 1866-1991; Majority of material found within 1917-1974

Harold Brayman papers supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0261s
Abstract Harold Brayman (1900-1988), a political journalist and former director of the Public Relations Department of Du Pont Company for 21 years, helped establish a concept of public relations which was widely emulated throughout the United States. The Harold Brayman papers supplement, spanning from 1914-1992, contains substantial editions to the original collection, documenting Brayman's dual careers in the fields of journalism and public relations. The collection includes correspondence,...
Dates: 1914-1992

Brinton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0453
Abstract

The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.

Dates: 1715-1930

Samuel R. Delany collection

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Identifier: MSS 0618
Abstract

The Samuel R. Delany collection includes Delany's letters to publisher Bill Bamberger (Bamberger Books), manuscript drafts of novels in progress, comic books, science fiction anthologies, and journals of fantasy and science fiction to which Delany contributed or served as editor.

Dates: 1967-1999

Austin Dobson collection

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Identifier: MSS 0644
Abstract The Austin Dobson collection comprises approximately six linear feet plus oversize material of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, contracts, royalty statements, artwork, photographs, wills, genealogies, periodicals, clippings, scrapbooks, copper plates, and printed ephemera. The collection documents the work and life of English author and civil servant (Henry) Austin Dobson (1840-1921) and the management of Dobson's estate and literary legacy by his youngest son, Alban Dobson (1885-1962)...
Dates: 1762-1999; Majority of material found within 1861-1962

Edward Field papers

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Identifier: MSS 0363
Abstract

The Edward Field papers consist of twenty-one linear feet of the personal and literary papers which document the life and writing career of American writer and poet Edward Field (b. 1924) from 1943–1994.

Dates: 1943-1994

Charles Henri Ford papers related to Om Krishna II

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Identifier: MSS 0294
Abstract These letters from American poet Charles Henri Ford (and others) to publishers Charles and Pamela Plymell concern publication plans for Ford's Om Krishna II (Cherry Valley Editions, 1981). In addition to Ford's letters there are single letters from Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Nepalese artist Indra Tamang, bookbinder Alan Brilliant, writer Ed Germain, and the Plymells. A draft typescript of Om Krishna II,...
Dates: 1966-1981; Majority of material found within 1979-1981

Friends of Rockwood records

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Identifier: MSS 0675
Abstract The Friends of Rockwood, Inc., supported the maintenance of the site, collections, and educational mission of the Rockwood Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, from 1976 to 2014. The Friends of Rockwood records comprise the organization’s general administrative records; officer and member files; board of directors’ minutes and correspondence; files pertaining to the Friends’ association with New Castle County, Delaware; records relating to properties and capital improvements at Rockwood;...
Dates: 1890-2017; Majority of material found within 1976-2014

Everett C. and Louise Staton Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0361
Abstract

The Everett C. & Louise Stanton Johnson papers concern the personal affairs of prominent Delaware publisher and politician Everett C. Johnson (1877-1926) and his wife Louise Staton Johnson (1882-1977). In addition, the collection contains material from their Newark publishing house, the Press of Kells, which brought the Arts and Crafts Movement to the community from 1916 to 1918.

Dates: 1835-1988; Majority of material found within 1916-1958

Littell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0449
Abstract

The Littell family papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books, artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania and Delaware from circa 1808 to 2004.

Dates: 1808-2005

James Maxwell papers

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Identifier: MSS 0170
Abstract

The James R. Maxwell papers consist of the personal, professional, and family papers of James Maxwell, a resident of Newark, Delaware, and a civil engineer who worked for significant railroads in the American West and South America in the late 19th century.

Dates: 1860-1949; Majority of material found within 1867-1900

Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers

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Identifier: MSS 0629
Abstract The Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers document the life and career of the Delaware-based civil rights activist and educator Littleton P. Mitchell (1918-2004) and his wife Jane E. Mitchell (1921-2004). The collection contains material relating to his education, activities as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, his three decades-long leadership of the Delaware NAACP, his career as a teacher and counselor at Governor Bacon Health Center in Delaware City, and his involvement in a number of...
Dates: 1911-2009; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

Beverley Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0620
Abstract

The Beverley Nichols papers document the personal and professional activities of prolific twentieth-century English novelist, playwright, journalist, composer, and political activist Beverley Nichols. The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, musical compositions, and photographs primarily dating between 1911 and 1991.

Dates: 1698, 1911-1991, undated; Majority of material found within 1911-1991

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

Marion H. Steele papers

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Identifier: MSS 0439
Abstract

The papers of Marion H. Steele, former managing editor of the Journal of Home Economics and University of Delaware graduate.

Dates: 1906-1999; Majority of material found within 1923-1985

William G. Thompson Briarwood Writers' Alliance correspondence and publicity records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0671
Abstract

William G. Thompson as President of the Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc., represented more than 150 writers, poets, and performers by booking lectures and readings at educational institutions, literary gatherings, and community events.

Dates: 1964-2007

Michael von Uchtrup collection of Jonathan Williams correspondence and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0752
Abstract American poet and publisher Jonathan Williams (1929-2008), often associated with the Beat poets and the Black Mountain School, is known as a founder of The Jargon Society, a publishing firm that popularized the poetry of the post-World War II American avant-garde. The Michael von Uchtrup collection of Jonathan Williams correspondence and ephemera details the relationship that developed between Williams and von Uchtrup in the 1990s and provides insight into Williams’s publishing career,...
Dates: 1969-2003

Zephyrus Image records

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Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983

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Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 2
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 2
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 2
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 2
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Adamson, Hans 1
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1
American Home Economics Association 1
Atwater, Helen W. 1
Bamberger, Bill 1
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Bayley, Solomon 1
Berlin, Lucia 1
Blank, Frederic A., 1890-1992 1
Bly, Robert 1
Brakhage, Stan 1
Brayman, Harold, 1900-1988 1
Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc. 1
Brilliant, Alan--Correspondence 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, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942 1
Brinton, George, 1804-1858 1
Brinton, John H. (John Hill), 1832-1907 1
Brinton, John Hill, 1772-1827 1
Brinton, Ward, 1873-1935 1
Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Bumbershoot (Festival) (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Burke, Clifford 1
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 1
Carpenter, Walter Samuel, 1888-1976 1
Cherry Valley Editions 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Connon, Bryan. Beverley Nichols: a life 1
Cornell University 1
Cranium Press 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
D.C. Heath and Company 1
Delany, Samuel R. 1
Delany, Samuel R.--Correspondence 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
Delaware College 1
Delaware Humanities Forum 1
Derrick, Neil 1
Di Prima, Diane 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dobson, Alban, 1885- 1
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921 1
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921--Bibliography 1
Dorn, Edward 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Episcopal Church 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Field, Edward, 1924- 1
Ford, Charles Henri 1
Ford, Charles Henri--Correspondence 1
Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 1
Frear, J. Allen, Jr. 1
Frederic Blank & Co. 1
Friends of Rockwood Inc. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
General Motors Corporation 1
Germain, Edward B.--Correspondence 1
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997--Correspondence 1
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 1
Governor Bacon Health Center 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1
Harrington, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1928 1
Harrington, Mary Lofland,1813-1871 1
Harrington, Purnell Frederick, 1844-1937 1
Harrington, Richard, 1772-1821 1
Harrington, Richard, 1847-1884 1
Harrington, Samuel M. (Samuel Maxwell), 1803-1865 1
Harrington, Samuel Milby, 1840-1878 1
Hermes Free Press 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 1
International House 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson Medical College 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
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