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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
Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs farm account book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0010
Abstract
This farm account book was kept by Dr. Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs of Pencader Hundred, Delaware, between 1792 and 1869.
Dates:
1792-1800, 1847-1869
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
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- Account books 2
- Biographies (documents) 2
- Black-and-white photographs 2
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- Daybooks 2
- Delaware--History--18th century 2
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- Delaware--History--20th century 2
- Ledgers (account books) 2
- Obituaries 2
- African American authors 1
- Agriculture--Delaware--History--18th century 1
- Agriculture--Delaware--History--19th century 1
- Albumen prints 1
- Almanacs 1
- Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
- Appraisals (financial records) 1
- Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
- Auction catalogs 1
- Bankers (people) 1
- Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
- Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
- Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
- Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
- Broadsides (notices) 1
- Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
- Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
- Cabinet photographs 1
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
- Commonplace books 1
- Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
- Correspondence 1
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- Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
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- Delaware--History 1
- Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
- Devotional literature 1
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- Diarists 1
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- Farmers 1
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- Genealogies (histories) 1
- Genealogists 1
- Genealogy 1
- Glass plate negatives 1
- Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
- Historic buildings 1
- Historic ships--18th century 1
- Historic ships--19th century 1
- Histories (literature genre) 1
- Invitations 1
- Invoices 1
- Land surveys 1
- Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
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- Legal correspondence 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Lithographic engravings (prints) 1
- Magazines (periodicals) 1
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- Marriage certificates 1
- Medicine--Practice--United States--History--19th century 1
- Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
- Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
- Millers (people) 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Motion picture film 1
- Music rolls 1
- Negatives (photographic) 1
- New Castle County (Del.) 1
- New Castle County (Del.)--History 1
- New Castle County (Del.)--History--18th century 1
- New Castle County (Del.)--History--19th century 1
- New Castle County (Del.)--History--20th century 1
- Newark (Del.)--History--19th century 1
- Newark (Del.)--History--20th century 1
- Newspapers 1
- Notebooks 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Panoramic photographs 1
- Passports 1
- Pencader Hundred (Del.) 1
- Pharmacists 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--20th century 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Photographers 1
- Photographers--United States--History--19th century 1
- Photographers--United States--History--20th century 1 + ∧ less
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- Cherokee 1
- German 1
- Names
- Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
- Bayley, Solomon 1
- Biggs, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Thomas), 1821-1893 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
- Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
- Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
- Delaware (Ship) 1
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
- Evans, Thomas, -1796 1
- Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
- Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
- Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
- Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
- Hagley Museum 1
- Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
- Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
- Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
- Hullihen, Walter 1
- Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
- Lewis, William Ditto 1
- Long, David J. 1
- Messick, Charles P. 1
- Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
- Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
- Morris, Hugh M. 1
- No, Kum-Sok 1
- Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
- Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
- Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
- Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
- Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
- Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
- Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
- Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
- Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
- Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
- Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
- Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 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
- Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
- Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
- Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
- Wilmington (Ship) 1 + ∧ less
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