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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

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

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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Almanacs 1
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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
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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
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Curtis Paper Company 1
Delaware State Federation of Women's Clubs 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
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
General Foods Corporation 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harlan C. Williams Co. 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Junior Woman's Club of Claymont (Del.) 1
Martin, John Hill, 1823-1906 1
Minuteman Press (Newark, Del.) 1
NVF Company 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
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
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
University of Delaware 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
Woman's Club of Claymont (Del.) 1
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