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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

Brinton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0453
Abstract

The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.

Dates: 1715-1930

Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0629
Abstract The Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers document the life and career of the Delaware-based civil rights activist and educator Littleton P. Mitchell (1918-2004) and his wife Jane E. Mitchell (1921-2004). The collection contains material relating to his education, activities as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, his three decades-long leadership of the Delaware NAACP, his career as a teacher and counselor at Governor Bacon Health Center in Delaware City, and his involvement in a number of...
Dates: 1911-2009; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

Pierce family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0293
Abstract

The Pierce family papers comprise materials relating to the Pierce family of New Castle, Delaware, from the early nineteenth century to the middle twentieth century. Most of the forty-eight items date from the American Civil War and provide a personal description of military life.

Dates: 1833-1954; Majority of material found within 1862-1864

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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
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Affirmative action programs--Delaware 1
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Allentown (Pa.) 1
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Hale-Byrnes House (Newark, Del.) 1
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Saint Louis (Mo.) 1
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School integration--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Schuylkill Haven (Pa.) 1
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Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States 1
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Sermons 1
Sermons, American--19th century 1
Service books (religious texts) 1
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Soldiers--Correspondence 1
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University of Delaware 2
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942 1
Brinton, George, 1804-1858 1