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Thurman Adams, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0619
Abstract

Democratic Senator Thurman Adams, Jr., (1928-2009) was the longest-serving senator in the history of the Delaware General Assembly. Adams was also the president of T.G. Adams & Sons, Inc., an agricultural feed and grain business in Bridgeville, Delaware. The Thurman Adams, Jr., papers chronicle the personal and professional life of the longest-serving senator (a Democrat from the 19th District) in the history of the Delaware General Assembly.

Dates: 1939-2012; Majority of material found within 1960-2009

Patricia Dycio Pete du Pont political ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0889
Abstract

Political ephemera, mostly related to Delaware governor Pete du Pont, including campaign buttons, t-shirts, a newspaper clipping, a 1981 inaugural program, and campaign literature collected by Patricia Buchanan Dycio.

Dates: circa 1977-1981

James Maxwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0170
Abstract

The James R. Maxwell papers consist of the personal, professional, and family papers of James Maxwell, a resident of Newark, Delaware, and a civil engineer who worked for significant railroads in the American West and South America in the late 19th century.

Dates: 1860-1949; Majority of material found within 1867-1900

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0431
Abstract

The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger’s trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

Dates: 1909

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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Correspondence 3
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Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
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Names
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 2
Du Pont, Pierre S. 2
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
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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
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Delaware College 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Delaware. Supreme Court 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dysio, Patricia B. 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
Gordy, William J., 1910- 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Maxwell, Harriet (Hattie) Mitchell, 1836- 1
Maxwell, James Riddle, 1836-1912 1
Minner, Ruth Ann, 1935- 1
Nixon-Nirdlinger, Fred G. (Frederick G.), 1877-1931 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reagan, Ronald 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
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
Union Pacific Railroad Company 1
University of Delaware 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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