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Black family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0249
Abstract

The Black Family Papers contain 174 items, including letters, greeting cards, postcards, telegrams, pamphlets, programs, photographs, and diaries pertaining to Helen Black Stewart, Lynam Stewart and other members of the Black Family. The papers span the dates 1889-1982, with the bulk of the material dating from 1917-1919 when Willard Black, Helen Black's brother, served in World War I.

Dates: 1889-1982

Elbert N. Carvel letter and portrait

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0165
Abstract

Consists of a photocopy of a typed letter written by Elbert N. Carvel, former governor of the state of Delaware, thanking individuals who were involved with the creation of and ceremony for the portrait of Carvel placed in the Elbert N. Carvel Office Building in Wilmington, Delaware. This letter was sent to Judge Paul E. Ellis. A photograph of the portrait is also included.

Dates: 1980

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

Frazer Jones papers of the Robert Kirkwood Society, Children of the American Revolution

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0450
Abstract

Two linear feet of correspondence, clippings, official records, photographs, publications, ephemera, and other materials primarily related to Junior President Frazer Jones’s work in the Robert Kirkwood Society of the Children of the American Revolution.

Dates: 1929-1968; Majority of material found within 1955-1965

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

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

Thatcher family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0155
Abstract

Small group of miscellaneous papers relating to several generations of the Thatcher family of Wilmington, Delaware. Papers include correspondence, military documents, photographs, notebooks, legal documents, and miscellaneous material.

Dates: 1870-1941

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Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
Black family 1
Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
Carvel, Elbert Nostrand, 1910-2005 1
Cochran family 1
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Delaware (Ship) 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Episcopal Church 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hagley Museum 1
Hardcastle family 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
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Jones, Frazer 1
Lewis, William Ditto 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
Littell, Samuel Harrington, 1873-1967 1
Littell, T. Gardiner, 1837-1911 1
Littell, Thomas Gardiner, 1902-1929 1
Littell, Walter Wilson, 1910-1995 1
Long, David J. 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1775-1865 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Morris, Susan Sophia, 1800-1868 1
Morse family 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Pearson family 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Princeton University 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Robert Kirkwood Society, Children of the American Revolution 1
Shippen family 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
Thatcher family 1
Thatcher, Joseph L., -1886 1
Thatcher, William, -1907 1
United States. Navy 1
University of Delaware 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
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Ladies Auxiliary 1
Warren family 1
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
Wilmington (Ship) 1
Wilson family 1
Wilson, Jeanie Morse, 1851-1921 1
Wilson, Margaret, 1881-1953 1
Winslow, Jeanie Morse Littell, 1918- 1
Winslow, Julian D., 1914-2005 1
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