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Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0583
Abstract The Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers contains twenty-six three-ring notebooks and nine folders of genealogical research notes, family photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century generations of Boyce's family lines from Delaware and Virginia. Boyce's research includes the Boyce, Justis, Morrow, Shreve, Wright, Brownley, Lawrence, Sebree, Adams, and Tuley families, as well as the family lines of his wife, Doris Jolls...
Dates: 1792-1999; Majority of material found within 1850s-1980s

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

Everett C. and Louise Staton Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0361
Abstract

The Everett C. & Louise Stanton Johnson papers concern the personal affairs of prominent Delaware publisher and politician Everett C. Johnson (1877-1926) and his wife Louise Staton Johnson (1882-1977). In addition, the collection contains material from their Newark publishing house, the Press of Kells, which brought the Arts and Crafts Movement to the community from 1916 to 1918.

Dates: 1835-1988; Majority of material found within 1916-1958

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

New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0260
Abstract

The New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, records document the history, organization, and activities of this women's club, which began in 1893 as a reading club, but quickly developed into an organization dedicated to promoting civic responsibility and social service in the Newark community.

Dates: 1893-2011

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

George Wolkind papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0697
Abstract

The George Wolkind papers document the involvement of native Delaware activist George Wolkind (born 1945) in the Newark and Wilmington, Delaware, counterculture and music scenes in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1966-2011

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Photographs 6
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Suburban life--United States--History--20th century 2
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1/4 inch audio tape 1
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Albums (books) 1
Allentown (Pa.) 1
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Arts and crafts movement--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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Delaware--History--20th century 1
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Hale-Byrnes House (Newark, Del.) 1
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Jazz audiences--United States 1
Jazz radio programs 1
Jazz--1921-1930--Analysis, appreciation 1
Jazz--1931-1940 1
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New Castle (Del.) 1
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Newark (Del.) 1
Newark (Del.)--History--21st century 1
Newark post (Newark, Del. : 1910) 1
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Peru--History--19th century 1
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Printers (people) 1
Printers--Delaware--Newark--20th century 1
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Publishers and publishing--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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University of Delaware 3
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 2
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 2
Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
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Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 1
Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
Burgess, Paul 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Delaware College 1
Delaware State Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 1
General Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hagley Museum 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Long, David J. 1
Maxwell, Harriet (Hattie) Mitchell, 1836- 1
Maxwell, James Riddle, 1836-1912 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
New Century Club of Newark, Delaware 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
Powell, Rudy, 1907-1976 1
Press of Kells 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Roycroft Shop 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
Union Pacific Railroad Company 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
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
Wilmington (Ship) 1
Wolkind, George 1
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