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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

Friends of School Hill oral histories and images

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0784
Abstract Oral histories and images collected at the event, "Preserving the Past: Gathering History & Mementos of the New London Road / School Hill Community," Saturday, May 20, 2017 and images collected at the event, "A Celebration for the New London Avenue School, One Hundred Years," Sunday, March 6, 2022. Established in 1867 as the first documented public school for African-American youth in the Newark, Delaware, community, the school and its surrounding property were also an important social...
Dates: May 2017, March 2022

Everett C. and Louise Staton Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0361
Abstract

The Everett C. & Louise Stanton Johnson papers concern the personal affairs of prominent Delaware publisher and politician Everett C. Johnson (1877-1926) and his wife Louise Staton Johnson (1882-1977). In addition, the collection contains material from their Newark publishing house, the Press of Kells, which brought the Arts and Crafts Movement to the community from 1916 to 1918.

Dates: 1835-1988; Majority of material found within 1916-1958

New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0260
Abstract

The New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, records document the history, organization, and activities of this women's club, which began in 1893 as a reading club, but quickly developed into an organization dedicated to promoting civic responsibility and social service in the Newark community.

Dates: 1893-2011

Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0680
Abstract

The Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers comprises 14.3 linear feet of materials, spanning the dates between 1900 and 2011, and includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, travel brochures, reel-to-reel tapes, magazines, fanzines, and other materials documenting intergenerational American family life in Delaware.

Dates: circa 1900-2011

Henry Clay Reed papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0499
Abstract

Henry Clay Reed, 1899-1972, was a renound Delaware historian and history professor at the University of Delaware for forty years, researching, teaching, writing, and editing numerous articles and books.

The Henry Clay Reed papers, spanning the dates from 1915-1974, contains legal documents, photographs, microfilm, correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera from the historian and University of Delaware professor.

Dates: 1833-1979; Majority of material found within 1915-1972

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Newark (Del.)--History--19th century 2
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Transcripts 2
1/4 inch audio tape 1
Activists 1
African Americans--Delaware 1
African Americans--Delaware--20th century--Interviews 1
African Americans--Education--Delaware--History--20th century 1
African Americans--History 1
Anniversaries 1
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Arts and crafts movement--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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Fanzines 1
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Jazz--1921-1930--Analysis, appreciation 1
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New Jersey--History 1
Newark (Del.)--History--21st century 1
Newark post (Newark, Del. : 1910) 1
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Newspaper publishing--Delaware--Newark--History--20th century 1
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University of Delaware 3
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 2
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 2
Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
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Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 1
Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
Burgess, Paul 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Delaware State Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 1
Friends of School Hill 1
General Federation of Women's Clubs 1
George Wilson Center (Newark, Del.) 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hagley Museum 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 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
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Newark Delaware Branch 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
New Century Club of Newark, Delaware 1
Newark High School (Del.) 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Owens family 1
Owens, Anna Hayes 1
Owens, Frank E. (Frank Erskine), 1918-2012 1
Owens, Jonathan Andrew 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Powell, Rudy, 1907-1976 1
Press of Kells 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Roycroft Shop 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
WDEL-FM (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
WSTW (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
Wilmington (Ship) 1
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