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Delaware Miscellany collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0598
Abstract

The Delaware Miscellany collection includes three large, green buckram-bound volumes compiled by William Ditto Lewis, which contain various documents pertaining to the history of Delaware and the surrounding region, and the University of Delaware.

Dates: 1825-1958; Majority of material found within 1920-1958

Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0680
Abstract

The Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers comprises 14.3 linear feet of materials, spanning the dates between 1900 and 2011, and includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, travel brochures, reel-to-reel tapes, magazines, fanzines, and other materials documenting intergenerational American family life in Delaware.

Dates: circa 1900-2011

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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Biographies (documents) 2
Black-and-white photographs 2
Correspondence 2
Delaware--History--18th century 2
Delaware--History--19th century 2
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Delaware--History--20th century 2
Memorandums 2
Newark (Del.)--History--20th century 2
Photographs 2
Scrapbooks 2
Tintypes (prints) 2
1/4 inch audio tape 1
Account books 1
Activists 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Civil rights--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Commonplace books 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Diplomas 1
Disc jockey radio programs 1
Disc jockeys 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Epistles 1
Essays 1
Estate inventories 1
Fairs 1
Fanzines 1
Financial records 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 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
Histories (literature genre) 1
Invitations 1
Invoices 1
Jazz audiences--United States 1
Jazz radio programs 1
Jazz--1921-1930--Analysis, appreciation 1
Jazz--1931-1940 1
Land surveys 1
Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
Later prints 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Lithographic engravings (prints) 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Maps (documents) 1
Marriage certificates 1
Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
Millers (people) 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1
Motion picture film 1
Music rolls 1
Negatives (photographic) 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--18th century 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--19th century 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Newark (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Newspapers 1
Notebooks 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
German 1
 
Names
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 2
Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
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Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 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
Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
Burgess, Paul 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 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
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hagley Museum 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Long, David J. 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
Newark High School (Del.) 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Owens family 1
Owens, Anna Hayes 1
Owens, Frank E. (Frank Erskine), 1918-2012 1
Owens, Jonathan Andrew 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Powell, Rudy, 1907-1976 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 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
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Delaware Research Foundation 1
University of Delaware--History--19th century 1
University of Delaware--History--20th century 1
University of Delaware. Marine Laboratory 1
Vallandigham, Edward Noble, 1854-1930 1
WDEL-FM (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
WSTW (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wilmington (Ship) 1
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