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Agnes P. Medill Boys' and Girls' Liberty Clubs of Delaware scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0417
Abstract

This one-volume scrapbook contains photographs, news clippings, and information that Agnes P. Medill kept during 1918-1922, when she was employed by the Delaware College Extension Service to organize Boys' and Girls' Liberty Clubs in the Delaware public schools. During the 1918 school year, Agnes Medill organized at least fifteen clubs throughout Delaware schools.

Dates: 1918-1922

David Fox Nelson scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0109
Abstract The collection consists of five scrapbooks assembled between 1869 and 1890 by David Fox Nelson, an African American man who escaped from slavery in North Carolina as a child and eventually arrived in New York, where he worked for the post office for several decades. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings covering a wide range of topics, especially subjects of particular significance to African Americans in the Reconstruction era. One scrapbook contains correspondence from Nelson’s...
Dates: 1863-1879, 1883, 1890-1895

David M. Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0328
Abstract

The David M. Nelson papers document the military, athletic, coaching, and administrative careers of twentieth century American football rules authority and former University of Delaware coach and administrator, David Moir Nelson.

Dates: 1936–1991; Majority of material found within 1951–1991

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

Beverley Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0620
Abstract

The Beverley Nichols papers document the personal and professional activities of prolific twentieth-century English novelist, playwright, journalist, composer, and political activist Beverley Nichols. The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, musical compositions, and photographs primarily dating between 1911 and 1991.

Dates: 1698, 1911-1991, undated; Majority of material found within 1911-1991

Nineteenth-century British scrapbook of theatrical, historical, royal, and artistic content

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0040
Abstract This British nineteenth-century scrapbook of theatrical, historical, royal, and artistic content features images created from multiple printing processes, predominantly monochromatic engravings, though the album also includes original artwork, elaborately printed Victorian-era greeting cards, and other color illustrations. Collected images include Italian, French, and primarily British landmarks, abbeys, cathedrals, historic landscapes, and British monarchs and nobility. This scrapbook also...
Dates: approximately 1846-1899

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0431
Abstract

The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger’s trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

Dates: 1909

William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0638
Abstract The William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood comprises 10.5 linear feet of material plus oversize items dating from 1844 to 2005 and includes extensive bibliographic information relating to the works of Charles Dickens and specifically to the author's final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which was unfinished at the time of his death. The collection, which illuminates Oliver's activities as a...
Dates: 1844-2005

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

Jessie Southard Parker journal and scrapbook

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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

Helen Ann Raiber papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0981
Abstract

Helen Ann Raiber (1926-1971) was a writer born and raised in Pennsylvania. Throughout her life, she wrote letters to writers and other artists whose work she admired. The Helen Ann Raiber papers consist of an album of letters she received from authors and artists, a journal with a story she wrote as a child, and a scrapbook containing her published poems and articles.

Dates: 1937-1970; Majority of material found within 1937-1943

Raven Arts Press archive

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0467
Abstract

The Archive of the Raven Arts Press forms a comprehensive record of the history and activities of the Dublin-based press, founded by Irish writer and publisher Dermot Bolger. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, galleys, publicity material, and financial records.

Dates: 1971-1993

Emilie Sargent scrapbook of West Indies and South American cruise aboard R.M.S. Mauretania

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0010
Abstract The Emilie Sargent scrapbook documents Sargent’s travels to the West Indies and South America aboard the cruise ship R.M.S. Mauretania in the fall of 1933. The scrapbook comprises approximately one-hundred-pages of photographs, newsletters, postcards, programs, menus, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, and other ship ephemera gathered during the cruise, which stopped at the following ports of call between September 9 and September 22, 1933: Trinidad, La Guaira...
Dates: 1933-1935

John Saxon copybook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0111
Abstract

This copybook, presumably owned by John Saxon, possibly of Boston, Massachusetts, was used to practice penmanship. It also contains pasted-in newspaper clippings on the topics of farming, flowers, handwriting, frogs, Civil War battles, and women.

Dates: approximately 1860s

Scrapbook of turn-of-the-twentieth century portraits of world leaders and international celebrities

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Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0053
Abstract

This scrapbook, compiled by an unknown creator, is a collection of turn-of-the-twentieth century portraits of world leaders and international celebrities. From royalty to military and diplomatic leaders to men and women of science, arts, and letters to personalities of the stage and silent screen, the news clippings, engravings, and cut illustrations from popular reading sources found in this scrapbook present a glimpse of fame documented in another era.

Dates: approximately 1885-1920; Majority of material found within 1890-1910

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

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

Dale E. and Clarice Wolf papers and memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0648
Abstract

Dale E. Wolf served as lieutenant governor of Delaware (1989-1992) and briefly as governor (December 31, 1992-January 19, 1993). The Dale E. and Clarice Wolf papers and memorabilia document Wolf’s military service in World War II, his early agricultural research and DuPont Company career, his political career and public service, as well as the community service of his wife, Clarice Wolf.

Dates: 1925-2013; Majority of material found within 1980-1993

Woman's Club of Claymont (Del.) records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0532
Abstract

The Woman's Club of Claymont (Del.), records, spanning the dates 1920-2002, and detail the social and civic life of this women's club located in Claymont, Delaware.

Dates: 1920-2002

World's Columbian Exposition scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0017
Abstract

Created by an unknown individual, this scrapbook contains newsclippings from an unidentified source that document the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 1 to October 30, 1893.

Dates: approximately 1893

Anne Wheeler Young and William Young scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0003
Abstract This collection comprises eight scrapbooks and special periodical issues assembled and collected by Philadelphia resident Anne Wheeler Young, who was interested in sensational news such as the trial and execution of Bruno Hauptmann for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., and celebrity coverage of British royalty, particularly King George V, King Edward VII, and Queen Elizabeth II. The collection also includes a scrapbook complied by Mrs. Young’s son, William Young, for an eighth-grade...
Dates: 1934-1953

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 4
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 2
Delaware State Federation of Women's Clubs 2
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 2
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General Federation of Women's Clubs 2
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 2
University of Delaware 2
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
Adams, Phelps 1
Advent Books (Firm) 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Association of University Women. Delaware Division 1
American Pilot (Training ship) 1
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 1
Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart), 1842-1928 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bluenose (Ship) 1
Bluenose II (Ship) 1
Bolger, Dermot, 1959- 1
Bolster, Esther, active 1858 1
Bonheur, Gaston 1
Boulter, Clara Agnes, active 1843-1869 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 1
Brayman, Harold, 1900-1988 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
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
Brown, Harry Fletcher 1
Burgess, Paul 1
Carpenter, Walter Samuel, 1888-1976 1
Carter, John, 1905-1975 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Chalfant, Jefferson David, 1856-1931 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995--Archives 1
Coffey, Denis J. 1
Committee for the Re-election of the President 1
Connon, Bryan. Beverley Nichols: a life 1
Cornell University 1
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 1
Cunard Line, ltd. 1
D.C. Heath and Company 1
Day, Cassie E. 1
De Souza, Mary Ann, active 1858 1
Devlin, Denis, 1908-1959 1
Dickens Fellowship (London, England) 1
Dickens Fellowship (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Dickens, Cedric Charles 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Adaptations 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dobson, Alban, 1885- 1
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921 1
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921--Bibliography 1
Du Pont, Alice Belin, 1872-1944 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 1
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 1
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926- 1
Embolador, Pinto Repentista 1
Episcopal Church 1
Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Finglas Writer's Workshop 1
Fogel Grip (Ship) 1
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 1
Forney, John W. (John Wien), 1817-1881 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Garland, Bruce 1
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 1
Gibbins, Lillian Ann 1
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Gridiron Club (Washington, D.C.) 1
HMS Rose (Ship : Replica) 1
Half Moon (Ship : Replica) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1
Harrington, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1928 1
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