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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

Elizabeth Coatsworth papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0437
Abstract

Family papers relating to the poet and children’s author Elizabeth Coatsworth, including letters to Coatsworth from the English poet and novelist L.A.G. Strong and from the American author Josephine Pinckney, as well as letters to Coatsworth’s husband, the writer Henry Beston.

Dates: 1902-1948

J. Ben Lieberman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0516
Abstract

Educator, editor, author, amateur printer, and proponent of the private press, J. Ben Lieberman is widely regarded as the father of the twentieth-century chappel movement in the United States. The J. Ben Lieberman Papers reflect some of the accomplishments of J. Ben Lieberman and his wife Elizabeth Koller Lieberman.

Dates: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1945-1984

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

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

 Collection
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

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

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

Reverend Willard M. White scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0576
Abstract

The scrapbook collection of Reverend Willard M. White, Delaware-born Methodist minister, spans nearly seventy years and includes ten scrapbooks relating to White’s education at the Westminster (later Wesley) Theological Seminary, work with Christian youth clubs and camps during the 1930s, and service to several Methodist Protestant and United Methodist churches in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Dates: 1919-1988

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Photographs 7
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Delaware--History--20th century 3
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Advertisements 1
Agriculture--History--19th century 1
Agriculturists 1
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Authors, American--20th century 1
Baltimore (Md.)--History--20th century 1
Bedford County (Pa.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 1
Certificates 1
China--History--20th century 1
Church bulletins 1
Church camps--Maryland--Methodist Church--History--20th century 1
College students--History--20th century 1
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Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Correspondence 1
Cumberland (Md.)--History--20th century 1
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
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Aument family 1
Aument, Anna 1
Aument, George M. 1
Beston, Henry, 1888-1968 1
Black family 1
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Coatsworth, Elizabeth, 1893-1986 1
Cochran family 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Episcopal Church 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
Lieberman, Elizabeth K. 1
Lieberman, J. Ben 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
McDowell, Julia Dudkewitz, 1923-2001 1
McDowell, Samuel C. T., 1920-2007 1
Melvin, W. A. 1
Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1775-1865 1
Morris, Susan Sophia, 1800-1868 1
Morse family 1
Murray, George W., 1920-2010 1
Murray, Pauline E., 1919-1997 1
Nobility Silver Company 1
Pearson family 1
Pinckney, Josephine, 1895-1957 1
Princeton University 1
Shippen family 1
Strong, L. A. G. (Leonard Alfred George), 1896-1958 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
University of Delaware 1
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Ladies Auxiliary 1
Warren family 1
Wesley Theological Seminary 1
White, Willard M. (Melvin) 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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