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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
Lewis family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0130
Abstract
The Lewis family papers consist of three linear feet of material related to this Newark, Delaware, farming family, who also owned property in Little Creek Hundred in Kent County, Delaware. Material in the collection dates largely from the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Members of the family were farmers and large landholders who maintained business relations with many prominent citizens of early Newark, such as George Platt, Samuel Donnell, James T. Maxwell, and Eri Haines. The collection...
Dates:
1696-1915; Majority of material found within 1791-1874
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
George Wolkind papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0697
Abstract
The George Wolkind papers document the involvement of native Delaware activist George Wolkind (born 1945) in the Newark and Wilmington, Delaware, counterculture and music scenes in the 1960s and 1970s.
Dates:
1966-2011