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Rita Katz Farrell collection related to dance

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0430
Abstract

Reference and research files that Rita Katz Farrell compiled during her career as a critic, freelance writer, and teacher.

Dates: 1920-1993; Majority of material found within 1950-1993

Betty Lee Hutchinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0839
Abstract

Betty Lee Hutchinson (1925-2020), a Democrat and Newark City Council member (1977-1980 and 1984-1988) was born November 18, 1925, in Uniontown, PA, to Harry J. Truman, Sr. (1897-1965), and Merle Carte Truman (1901-2001). The Betty Lee Hutchinson papers document the personal interests and civic activities of a woman with ties to Newark, Delaware, and the University of Delaware community.

Dates: 1900-2012; Majority of material found within 1975-2005

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

Alice Marston scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0421
Abstract

The Alice Marston scrapbook, 1896-1906, chronicles a decade of Marston family life, revealing information about the social, cultural, and leisure activities of an ordinary upper-middle-class Philadelphia family at the turn of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1896-1906

Jessie Southard Parker journal and scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0057
Abstract

These nine volumes are a journal and scrapbook kept by Jessie Southard Parker of Belmont, Massachusetts, from 1899 to 1916. Parker wrote extensively about her social and family life, thoughts on current events, and belief in Christian Science, supplementing her entries with theatrical programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of ephemera.

Dates: 1899-1916

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

World fairs and expositions collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0630
Abstract

This artificial collection comprises a variety of types of material documenting world fairs and expositions, spanning the dates between 1851 and 1967, with the bulk of the collection dating from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Material consists of printed matter and ephemera, including newspapers, programs, invitations, maps, brochures, viewbooks, advertisements, stationery, contracts, bonds, trade cards, and a scrapbook; photographs and prints; and realia souvenirs.

Dates: 1851-1967; Majority of material found in 1893

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Photographs 6
Clippings (information artifacts) 5
Correspondence 5
Ephemera (general) 4
Programs (documents) 4
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Scrapbooks 4
Magazines (periodicals) 3
Maps (documents) 3
Newspapers 3
Playbills 3
Advertisements 2
Albumen prints 2
Black-and-white photographs 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
New Castle County (Del.) 2
Obituaries 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Printed ephemera 2
Stationery 2
Tintypes (prints) 2
Women--Delaware--History--20th century 2
Account books 1
Advertising fans 1
African American authors 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Articles 1
Artifacts (object genre) 1
Arts and crafts movement--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Authors 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Barbados 1
Belmont (Mass.) 1
Bethany (W. Va.) 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Birthday cards 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Books 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 1
Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
California--Description and travel 1
Cards (information artifacts) 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Certificates 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Children 1
Choral Societies 1
Christian Science 1
Christmas cards 1
Chromolithographs 1
Color photographs 1
Commonplace books 1
Contracts 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Dance--United States--History 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Delaware--Politics and government 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1951- 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Ellicottville (N.Y.) 1
England--Description and travel 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Eulogies 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Fairs 1
Financial records 1
Florida--Description and travel 1
France--Description and travel 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
French 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Italian 1
 
Names
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
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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
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 1
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 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
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 1
Hutchinson, Betty Lee 1
Hutchinson, Harry D. 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Jones, Russel C. (Russel Cameron) 1
League of Women Voters of Delaware 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Marston, Henry Ward, 1859- 1
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) 1
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.) 1
Newark (Del.). City Council 1
Newark Free Library (Newark, Del.) 1
Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) 1
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Parker, Jessie Southard 1
Pears (A. & F.) Limited 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Press of Kells 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roselle, David P. 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Roycroft Shop 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Michigan 1
University of Pittsburgh 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.) 1
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