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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

John Hill Martin family history

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0148
Abstract

This volume contains an extensive history of the Martin family of Chester County and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, created by John Hill Martin. Martin created the history during the 1870s-1890s, but included materials from both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Dates: 1726-1899; Majority of material found within 1870-1899

William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0638
Abstract The William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood comprises 10.5 linear feet of material plus oversize items dating from 1844 to 2005 and includes extensive bibliographic information relating to the works of Charles Dickens and specifically to the author's final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which was unfinished at the time of his death. The collection, which illuminates Oliver's activities as a...
Dates: 1844-2005

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

Frank W. Tober collection on literary forgery

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0601
Abstract

The Frank W. Tober collection on literary forgery comprises letters, books, pamphlets, journals and journal articles, newspaper clippings, auction and exhibition catalogs, and other ephemera related to literary forgery. While Tober collected specimens of a variety of manuscript and printed forgeries, he was most interested in the literary forgeries of Thomas J. Wise and H. Buxton Forman.

Dates: 1801-1994; Majority of material found within 1920-1990

Townsend family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0445
Abstract

The Townsend family (of Delaware) papers consists of letters, accounts, and other business records, spanning the years 1809-1920, with the majority of the material falling between 1834 and 1894. The collection mainly consists of business letters sent to Samuel and John Townsend, political and personal letters sent to Samuel Townsend, and family correspondence, including twenty letters written by Edmund Townsend during the Civil War.

Dates: 1809-1920; Majority of material found within 1833-1894

Woman's Club of Claymont (Del.) records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0532
Abstract

The Woman's Club of Claymont (Del.), records, spanning the dates 1920-2002, and detail the social and civic life of this women's club located in Claymont, Delaware.

Dates: 1920-2002

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Correspondence 5
Auction catalogs 3
Deeds 3
Genealogy 3
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Photographs 3
Scrapbooks 3
Account books 2
Broadsides (notices) 2
Collectors 2
Delaware--History--19th century 2
Diaries 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Estate inventories 2
Exhibition catalogs 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Indentures 2
Land surveys 2
Leases 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
Maps (documents) 2
Minutes (administrative records) 2
Printed ephemera 2
VHS 2
Wills 2
Administrative records 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Annotated bibliographies 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Articles 1
Audio cassette 1
Authors 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Bibliographers 1
Bills of sale 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Blueprints (reprographic copies) 1
Book collecting 1
Book collectors 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Business records 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Businesspeople--United States--History--19th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Certificates 1
Checks (bank checks) 1
Chester County (Pa.) 1
Claymont (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Commonplace books 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Critics 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Delaware County (Pa.) 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Delaware--Politics and government--19th century 1
Devotional literature 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Drafts (documents) 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
England--Description and travel 1
English literature--History and criticism 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Essays 1
Fairs 1
Farmers (people in agriculture) 1
Figurines 1
Financial records 1
Forgeries (derivative objects) 1
Forgers (criminals) 1
Fruit trade--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Genealogists 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Invitations 1
Invoices 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
Danish 1
French 1
German 1
Latin 1
 
Names
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 2
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
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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
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, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Delaware State Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Dickens Fellowship (London, England) 1
Dickens Fellowship (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Dickens, Cedric Charles 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Adaptations 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fleck, Robert D., 1947- 1
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
General Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson Medical College 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Junior Woman's Club of Claymont (Del.) 1
Martin, John Hill, 1823-1906 1
Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir, 1851-1923 1
Oak Knoll Books (Firm) 1
Oliver, William Albert, 1926-2005 1
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Prokosch, Frederic, 1908-1989 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Steinmetz, Joseph J., active 1929-1930 1
Tober, Frank W., 1919-1995 1
Todd, William B. 1
Walters, John Cuming 1
Ward, F. De W. (Ferdinand De Wilton), 1812-1891 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wise, Louise 1
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 1
Woman's Club of Claymont (Del.) 1
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