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Jeffrey Bailey collection of James Leo Herlihy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0670
Abstract

The Jeffrey Bailey collection of James Leo Herlihy papers is a combination of correspondence and personal papers originated by American author and actor James Leo Herlihy and literary papers belonging to Herlihy’s long-time friend and literary executor, American author Jeffrey Bailey.

Dates: 1942-2006; Majority of material found within dates 1953-1993

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

Donald Callender papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0588
Abstract This collection documents the for-profit and nonprofit work of Donald W. Callender, Jr., an industrial archaeologist whose career in the greater Delaware-Pennsylvania-New Jersey area has involved maintenance and restoration of railroads and rail cars. In addition, Callender was involved in the establishment of a regional living history museum, the leadership of historic preservation organizations, and efforts to restore the Wilmington Waterfront and increase tourism to the city. The...
Dates: 1968-2008; Majority of material found within 1974-1999

Brian Coffey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0382
Abstract

The Brian Coffey papers consist of personal and literary papers which document the life and career of the avant-garde Irish poet from 1917 to 1996.

Dates: 1917-1996

Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0556
Abstract The papers of American art historian Mary Bartlett Cowdrey comprise nine linear feet of notes; correspondence; manuscripts of published and unpublished books and articles; engravings and lithographs from published sources; photographs of paintings and engravings; postcards; clippings from books, exhibition catalogs, magazines, and newspapers, for approximately 1,600 American artists active during the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. The collection is arranged in five series that...
Dates: 1834-1963; Majority of material found within 1930-1954

Rita Katz Farrell collection related to dance

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0430
Abstract

Reference and research files that Rita Katz Farrell compiled during her career as a critic, freelance writer, and teacher.

Dates: 1920-1993; Majority of material found within 1950-1993

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

Littell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0449
Abstract

The Littell family papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books, artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania and Delaware from circa 1808 to 2004.

Dates: 1808-2005

Alice Marston scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0421
Abstract

The Alice Marston scrapbook, 1896-1906, chronicles a decade of Marston family life, revealing information about the social, cultural, and leisure activities of an ordinary upper-middle-class Philadelphia family at the turn of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1896-1906

Jessie Southard Parker journal and scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0057
Abstract

These nine volumes are a journal and scrapbook kept by Jessie Southard Parker of Belmont, Massachusetts, from 1899 to 1916. Parker wrote extensively about her social and family life, thoughts on current events, and belief in Christian Science, supplementing her entries with theatrical programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of ephemera.

Dates: 1899-1916

G. Burton Pearson, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0432
Abstract

Personal correspondence, papers, and photographs from Delaware lawyer, judge, and banker George Burton Pearson, Jr., as well as papers from relatives in the Pearson, Cochran, Warren, and Hardcastle families.

Dates: 1840-1999; Majority of material found within 1880-1950

Emilie Sargent scrapbook of West Indies and South American cruise aboard R.M.S. Mauretania

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0010
Abstract The Emilie Sargent scrapbook documents Sargent’s travels to the West Indies and South America aboard the cruise ship R.M.S. Mauretania in the fall of 1933. The scrapbook comprises approximately one-hundred-pages of photographs, newsletters, postcards, programs, menus, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, and other ship ephemera gathered during the cruise, which stopped at the following ports of call between September 9 and September 22, 1933: Trinidad, La Guaira...
Dates: 1933-1935

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

Notes on trips to Paris, Normandy and Brittany : Notes on a trip through the Smoky Mountains in 1935

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0069
Abstract

These two travel journals belonging to Emily Sowden contain descriptions of trips to France, the Southeast United States, and Latin America in the 1930s. The entries feature itineraries with commentary and are supplemented by numerous postcards, photographs, small maps, and plant specimens.

Dates: 1933-1939

Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0982
Abstract W. H. Auden (1907-1973) was an English and American poet, translator, librettist, playwright, and essayist. The Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection comprises Wilson’s collected materials created by and related to W. H. Auden. The collection includes manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, and published versions of Auden’s poetry, translations, prose, and dramatic works; programs and promotional ephemera for Auden’s readings and events as well as other performances related to the...
Dates: circa 1930-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

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Boston (Mass.) 1
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Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 2
Advent Books (Firm) 1
American Academy of the Fine Arts 1
American Art-Union 1
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 1
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Bailey, Jeffrey 1
Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bishop's Mill Historic Institute 1
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) 1
Blondell, Joan 1
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 1
Bongé, Lyle 1
Bonheur, Gaston 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 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
Broughton, James, 1913-1999 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Callender, Donald W., Jr. 1
Callender, Donald W., Jr.--Archives 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955 1
Cochran family 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995--Archives 1
Coffey, Denis J. 1
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, 1910-1974 1
Cunard Line, ltd. 1
Devlin, Denis, 1908-1959 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dietrich, Marlene 1
Durrell, Lawrence 1
Durrie, George Henry, 1820-1863 1
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 1
Embolador, Pinto Repentista 1
Episcopal Church 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Four States Railway Services 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau 1
Hardcastle family 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1
Harrington, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1928 1
Harrington, Mary Lofland,1813-1871 1
Harrington, Purnell Frederick, 1844-1937 1
Harrington, Richard, 1772-1821 1
Harrington, Richard, 1847-1884 1
Harrington, Samuel M. (Samuel Maxwell), 1803-1865 1
Harrington, Samuel Milby, 1840-1878 1
Harris, Dorothy 1
Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988 1
Herlihy, James Leo 1
Heston, Charlton 1
Historic Red Clay Valley, Inc. (Del.) 1
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 1
Jaffe, Rhoda, 1923-1967 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
Kallman, Chester, 1921-1975 1
Kalmar Nyckel (Ship : Replica)--Design and construction--20th century 1
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation 1
Kirkwood, James, 1924-1989 1
Lambert, Gavin 1
Littell Families of America 1
Littell family 1
Littell, Charles Willing, 1832-1895 1
Littell, Eliakim, 1797-1870 1
Littell, Elton Gardiner, 1877-1962 1
Littell, Estelle Sherman, 1889-1978 1
Littell, Gertrude (Gretchen), 1905-2003 1
Littell, Gertrude Wilson, -1919 1
Littell, Harriet Hare, 1835-1885 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia Harrington, -1924 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia, 1880-1934 1
Littell, Helen, 1914- 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1806-1875 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1870- 1
Littell, Margaret, 1903-1990 1
Littell, Mary Morris, 1884-1984 1
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