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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

Harold Brayman papers

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Identifier: MSS 0261
Abstract Harold Brayman (1900-1988), a political journalist and former director of the Public Relations Department of Du Pont Company for 21 years, helped establish a concept of public relations which was widely emulated throughout the United States. The Harold Brayman papers, spanning from 1900-1991, document the successful dual career of one man in the fields of journalism and public relations. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings and...
Dates: 1900-1991; Majority of material found within 1928-1978

Marie Jucht Kaufman papers

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Identifier: MSS 0734
Abstract

Marie Jucht Kaufman (1930-1994) documented her survival of the Holocaust through letters written to her son, American writer and artist Alan Kaufman, between 1993 and 1994. The collection also includes photographs of the Jucht family during and after World War II, as well as photocopies of Marie Kaufman's naturalization documents from France, Venezuela, and the United States.

Dates: 1938-2013; Majority of material found within 1993-1994

Thomas Becker Malone, Jr., World War II correspondence

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Identifier: MSS 0906
Abstract Thomas Becker Malone, Jr. (1919-1980) was an American serviceman in the U.S. Army, Office of the Post Quartermaster, Headquarters Command, in the European theater of World War II. This collection comprises letters and V-mail exchanged by Malone and his family and friends in Delaware from 1942 to 1946. During this time, Malone trained at Camp Croft in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and served abroad in London, England, and Paris, France. The collection also contains Selective Service letters...
Dates: 1941-1946, undated; Majority of material found within 1942-1945

Samuel C. T. and Julia Dudkewitz McDowell World War II correspondence

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Identifier: MSS 0748
Abstract Samuel C. T. McDowell (1920-2007) was an American Army Air Force lieutenant in World War II. His wife, Julia Dudkewitz McDowell (1923-2001), was a tracing clerk in the Reproduction Department, Design Division at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in the 1940s. This collection comprises letters exchanged by the serviceman and his spouse on the homefront in Delaware, on a nearly daily basis, during the period 1943-1945. During this time, Samuel was stationed domestically and deployed in...
Dates: 1937-1945, 2002; Majority of material found within 1943-1945

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

Charles Morgan letters to Ronald Armstrong

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Identifier: MSS 0397
Abstract

Charles Morgan letters to Ronald Armstrong comprise of letters written by British author Charles Morgan (1871–1951) and primarily addressed to his friend Ronald Armstrong, a British Consulate official based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dates: 1930–1958

George W. and Pauline Murray, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0702
Abstract This collection documents the lives of Newark, Delaware, residents George W. Murray, Jr., and Pauline E. Murray during World War II. The collection is small, yet it gives a glimpse of both military service and the homefront experiences of the young married couple during war. Included are handwritten correspondence exchanged by the married couple while George Murray was stationed at Army Air Force bases on the continental United States and in Europe, illustrating life both at home and abroad...
Dates: 1939-1946

David M. Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0328
Abstract

The David M. Nelson papers document the military, athletic, coaching, and administrative careers of twentieth century American football rules authority and former University of Delaware coach and administrator, David Moir Nelson.

Dates: 1936–1991; Majority of material found within 1951–1991

William Richardson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0158
Abstract

This collection consists mainly of correspondence circulating between William Richardson (1919–1948) and his mother, brother, step-father, friends and other relatives while he was serving in the military during World War II.

Dates: 1919-1947; Majority of material found within 1941-1943

Henry J. Southmayd, Jr., World War II letters to the Southmayd family

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0666
Abstract

This collection consists of 58 letters written by Henry J. Southmayd, Jr., to his family between 1940 and 1945 while serving in the 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group of the 12th Army Air Force. The letters detail his recruitment into the Army Air Corps and subsequent training as well as the events and conditions experienced while participating in the North African and Italian campaigns of the European Theater during World War II.

Dates: 1940-1967; Majority of material found within 1940-1945

Marion H. Steele papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0439
Abstract

The papers of Marion H. Steele, former managing editor of the Journal of Home Economics and University of Delaware graduate.

Dates: 1906-1999; Majority of material found within 1923-1985

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Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
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Committee for the Re-election of the President 1
Cornell University 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
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Fort Dix (N.J.) 1
Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 1
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Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
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Legislative Correspondents' Association of the State of New York 1
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Malone, Dorothy V., 1916-1991 1
Malone, Eleanor C. Wycherly, 1885-1962 1
Malone, Thomas Becker, Jr., 1919-1980 1
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McDowell, Julia Dudkewitz, 1923-2001 1
McDowell, Samuel C. T., 1920-2007 1
Mitchell, Jane E. (Jane Evelyn), 1921-2004 1
Mitchell, Littleton P. (Littleton Purnell), 1918-2009 1
Morgan, Charles, 1871-1951 1
Morrison, C. M. (Charles Munro) 1
Murray, George W., 1920-2010 1
Murray, Pauline E., 1919-1997 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
National Collegiate Athletic Association 1
National Press Club (U.S.) 1
Nelson, David M., 1920-1991 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Nobility Silver Company 1
Progressive Club of Delaware 1
Public Relations Society of America 1
Redding, Louis L. 1
Richardson, William, 1919-1948 1
Southmayd, Henry J., Jr., 1915-1967 1
Southmayd, Henry J., Jr., 1915-1967--Correspondence 1
Springfield, Eleanor May Malone, 1910-1986 1
Springfield, James J., 1913-1997 1
Steele, Marion H. (Marion Harlan), 1904-1985 1
Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. 1
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