Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5

Beadle and Adams archives

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0354
Abstract

The Beadle and Adams archives contains materials relating to American publisher Erastus F. Beadle (1821–1894) and the dime booklet publishing house in which he was a partner, Beadle and Adams.

Dates: 1848–1921

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

Austin Dobson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0644
Abstract The Austin Dobson collection comprises approximately six linear feet plus oversize material of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, contracts, royalty statements, artwork, photographs, wills, genealogies, periodicals, clippings, scrapbooks, copper plates, and printed ephemera. The collection documents the work and life of English author and civil servant (Henry) Austin Dobson (1840-1921) and the management of Dobson's estate and literary legacy by his youngest son, Alban Dobson (1885-1962)...
Dates: 1762-1999; Majority of material found within 1861-1962

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

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

Filtered By

  • Subject: Correspondence X
  • Subject: Genealogies (histories) X
  • Subject: Photographs X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
Correspondence 3
Ephemera (general) 3
Postcards 3
Scrapbooks 3
∨ more
Commonplace books 2
Deeds 2
Delaware--History--19th century 2
Delaware--History--20th century 2
Estate inventories 2
Financial records 2
Genealogy 2
Historic buildings 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
Passports 2
Printing plates 2
Silhouettes 2
Stationery 2
Studio portraits 2
Tintypes (prints) 2
Wills 2
Account books 1
Address books 1
African American authors 1
Agents (commercial representatives) 1
Albumen prints 1
Allentown (Pa.) 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Authors 1
Authors, English--19th century 1
Authors, English--20th century 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Bas-reliefs (sculpture) 1
Bibliographers 1
Biographers 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Birth certificates 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Bookplates 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
Boyce (Va.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Certificates 1
Clarke County (Va.) 1
College students--History--20th century 1
Contracts 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dime novels--Publishing--United States 1
Diplomas 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Editors (assembling, revising) 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Essayists 1
Fairs 1
Families--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Families--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Gelatin dry plate negatives 1
Genealogists 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Government employees 1
Greeting cards 1
Hale-Byrnes House (Newark, Del.) 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Intellectual property--England 1
Invitations 1
Invoices 1
Journals (periodicals) 1
Land surveys 1
Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
Later prints 1
+ ∧ less
 
Language
Cherokee 1
French 1
German 1
 
Names
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1