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Friends of Rockwood records

 Collection
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

Newark Publishing Co. records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0879
Abstract Newark Publishing Co. was a Newark, Delaware, printing business established in the mid-20th century and was owned and operated by William H. Durham from circa 1967 to 1981. Newark Publishing Co. records comprises over 3000 job printing files created by the press for largely Newark, Delaware-based businesses between 1963 and 1981. The collection also includes administrative and financial records of the company and its precursor, the Newark Post weekly newspaper,...
Dates: 1936-1981; Majority of material found within 1971-1981

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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Architectural drawings (visual works) 2
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Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 2
Historic buildings 2
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Ledgers (account books) 2
Magazines (periodicals) 2
Minutes (administrative records) 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Newsletters 2
Newspapers 2
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Printed ephemera 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Stationery 2
VHS 2
Visitors' books 2
Wills 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--20th century 2
Abstract notes 1
Account books 1
Administrative records 1
Administrative reports 1
Advertising--History--20th century 1
Advertising--United States--History--20th century 1
African American authors 1
Agendas (administrative records) 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural surveys 1
Architecture, Victorian--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Auction catalogs 1
Audio cassette 1
Audits 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Betacam 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Blank forms 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Business cards 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Bylaws (administrative records) 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Church bulletins 1
Commonplace books 1
Compact discs 1
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Condition reports 1
Copy (production stage) 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
DVD 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Exhibition records 1
Fairs 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Floppy disk: 3 1/2 inch 1
Food festivals 1
Fund raising 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Handbooks 1
Historic buildings--Maintenance and repair 1
Historic buildings--United States--Designs and plans 1
Historic house museums--Furniture, equipment, etc. 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Invitations 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
 
Names
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 2
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 2
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 2
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 2
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 2
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Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 2
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 2
Bayley, Solomon 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
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Curtis Paper Company 1
Delaware. Division of State Police 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
DuMar Printing Co. 1
Durham, William H., 1905-1981 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Friends of Rockwood Inc. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
General Foods Corporation 1
Harlan C. Williams Co. 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Minuteman Press (Newark, Del.) 1
NVF Company 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
Newark Country Club (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark Publishing Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark United Methodist Church (Newark, Del.) 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Porter Motor Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rockwood Museum (New Castle County, Del.) 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shamrock Printing Co. 1
University of Delaware 1
Vincent, Gilbert Tapley, 1946- 1
W.L. Gore and Associates 1
WNRK radio (Newark, Del.) 1
Ware, Richard T. 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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