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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

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

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

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
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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Correspondence 4
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Ephemera (general) 2
Estate inventories 2
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Genealogies (histories) 2
Invoices 2
Ledgers (account books) 2
Maps (documents) 2
Memorandums 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Notebooks 2
Page proofs 2
Pamphlets 2
Passports 2
Poets 2
Printed ephemera 2
Printing 2
Printing--United States--History--20th century 2
Promotional materials 2
Proofs (printed matter) 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Scrapbooks 2
Silhouettes 2
Studio portraits 2
Account books 1
Address books 1
Advertisements 1
Advertising--History--20th century 1
Advertising--United States--History--20th century 1
African American authors 1
Agents (commercial representatives) 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Articles 1
Artists (visual artists) 1
Artists' books 1
Artists' books (books) 1
Auction catalogs 1
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Authors and publishers--20th century 1
Authors, American--20th century 1
Authors, American--20th 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
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Blank forms 1
Book artists 1
Book industries and trade--United States--History--20th century 1
Book jackets 1
Booklets 1
Bookplates 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Bumper stickers 1
Businesspeople 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
California--History--1950- 1
Calligraphy (visual works) 1
Camp Zachary Taylor (Ky.) 1
Caricatures 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Church bulletins 1
Color photographs 1
Comprehensives 1
Contracts 1
Copy (production stage) 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--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
French 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
 
Names
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Berlin, Lucia 1
Blank, Frederic A., 1890-1992 1
Bly, Robert 1
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Brakhage, Stan 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
Burke, Clifford 1
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cranium Press 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
Curtis Paper Company 1
D.C. Heath and Company 1
Delaware. Division of State Police 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
DuMar Printing Co. 1
Durham, William H., 1905-1981 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Frederic Blank & Co. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
General Foods Corporation 1
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 1
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harlan C. Williams Co. 1
Hermes Free Press 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Kyger, Joanne 1
London, Rick 1
Macmillan & Co. 1
McClure, Michael 1
Minuteman Press (Newark, Del.) 1
Myers, Michael, 1948-1982 1
NVF Company 1
Newark Country Club (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark Publishing Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark United Methodist Church (Newark, Del.) 1
Oppenheimer, Joel, 1930-1988 1
Oxford University Press 1
Partridge, Bernard, 1861- 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Porter Motor Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Raworth, Tom 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Rusk, Robert 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shamrock Printing Co. 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sky, Gino 1
Snyder, Gary, 1930- 1
Spring Creek Typesetting Service 1
Teter, Holbrook 1
Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920 1
Turtle Island Foundation 1
University of Delaware 1
W.L. Gore and Associates 1
WNRK radio (Newark, Del.) 1
Ware, Richard T. 1
Welch, Lew 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wiley, William T., 1937- 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Zephyrus Image (Firm) 1
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