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Austin Dobson collection

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

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

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

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

 Collection
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

Ben Yagoda papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0672
Abstract

American author, editor, critic and blogger Ben Yagoda (born 1954) retired from teaching journalism and writing at the University of Delaware in 2016. The collection includes research material, drafts and notes, and interviews toward Yagoda's various articles and book-length projects.

Dates: 1975-2015

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Correspondence 7
Photographs 6
Magazines (periodicals) 5
Negatives (photographic) 4
Programs (documents) 4
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Audio cassette 3
Authors 3
Books 3
Financial records 3
Newspapers 3
Page proofs 3
VHS 3
Address books 2
Agents (commercial representatives) 2
Architectural drawings (visual works) 2
Black-and-white photographs 2
Broadsides (notices) 2
Calendars 2
Commonplace books 2
Compact discs 2
Contracts 2
Editors (assembling, revising) 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Estate inventories 2
Fliers (printed matter) 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 2
Historic buildings 2
Interviews 2
Invitations 2
Invoices 2
Journals (periodicals) 2
Land surveys 2
Minutes (administrative records) 2
Newsletters 2
Notebooks 2
Obituaries 2
Periodicals 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--20th century 2
Postcards 2
Printed ephemera 2
Printing plates 2
Scrapbooks 2
Silhouettes 2
Studio portraits 2
Visitors' books 2
Wills 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--20th century 2
Abstract notes 1
Account books 1
Administrative records 1
Administrative reports 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
Articles 1
Artifacts (object genre) 1
Arts and crafts movement--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Audits 1
Authors, American--20th century 1
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence 1
Authors, American--21st century--Correspondence 1
Authors, English--19th century 1
Authors, English--20th century 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Bas-reliefs (sculpture) 1
Betacam 1
Bibliographers 1
Bibliographies 1
Biographers 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Book reviews 1
Bookplates 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Business letters 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
Certificates 1
Condition reports 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
DVD 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
French 1
German 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
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
American Home Economics Association 1
Atwater, Helen W. 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc. 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
Bumbershoot (Festival) (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
D.C. Heath and Company 1
Derrick, Neil 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
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Field, Edward, 1924- 1
Friends of Rockwood Inc. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
Macmillan & Co. 1
McNutley, Frank 1
McNutley, Frank--Correspondence 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
Oxford University Press 1
Partridge, Bernard, 1861- 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Press of Kells 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rockwood Museum (New Castle County, Del.) 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Roycroft Shop 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Steele, Marion H. (Marion Harlan), 1904-1985 1
Thompson, William G., 1922-2009 1
Thompson, William G., 1922-2009--Correspondence 1
Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920 1
Vincent, Gilbert Tapley, 1946- 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Yagoda, Ben 1
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