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Leon De Valinger papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0686
Abstract Leon De Valinger, Jr., served as Delaware State Archivist from 1941 to 1970. The Leon De Valinger papers contain his personal and professional records, primarily related to his work as State Archivist and as a historian of Delaware. His professional, administrative, and subject files offer a window into the varied concerns of the archives profession as it evolved during the 20th century. Additionally, his work to document, preserve, and promote Delaware history and culture forms a theme...
Dates: 1752-1999; Majority of material found within 1930-1980

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

Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs farm account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0010
Abstract

This farm account book was kept by Dr. Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs of Pencader Hundred, Delaware, between 1792 and 1869.

Dates: 1792-1800, 1847-1869

Records of the Friendship Fire Company of Wilmington, Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0463
Abstract

Records from the Friendship Fire Company of Wilmington, Delaware, the first volunteer fire department in the city’s history, including the fire company's constitution, act of incorporation, rules and regulations, and official minutes from 1784 to 1828.

Dates: 1784-1828

W. Barksdale Maynard photographs of Delaware collection

 Collection
Identifier: GRA 0161
Abstract

W. Barksdale (William Barksdale) Maynard is a lecturer in art and architectural history at the University of Delaware. The W. Barksdale Maynard photographs of Delaware collection contains color slides and digital images of numerous buildings, documenting Delaware's architectural history.

Dates: 1994-2023

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

Torbert-Ellegood collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0461
Abstract

The Torbert-Ellegood Collection, spanning 1759-1889, with the bulk of the papers dating 1820-1840, consists of 1.3 linear feet of legal papers, land records, accounts, receipts, correspondence, and other documents, many of which relate to the Torbert and Ellegood families of Delaware.

Dates: 1759-1889

Waples family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0402
Abstract

The Waples Family Papers, spanning the dates 1753-1864, outline the family’s role in the economic development of Milton in Broadkill Hundred, Delaware. But the bulk of the collection, 1851-1864, focuses on Gideon B. Waples, beginning with the pre-Civil War period when he was a student at Delaware College. After he voluntarily left his studies, he became a farmer and businessman in southern Delaware; he also served as a political aide to two governors of Delaware during the Civil War.

Dates: 1753-1864; Majority of material found within 1851-1864

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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, 1867-1944 1
Carey family 1
Carey, Clara Waples, 1857-1894 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
De Valinger, Leon, 1905-2000 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Delaware College--Students 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Evans, Thomas, -1796 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Friendship Fire Company (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hagley Museum 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Long, David J. 1
Maynard, W. Barksdale (William Barksdale) 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Munroe, John A. (John Andrew), 1914-2006 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Ryden, George Herbert, 1884-1941 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
Torbert, John, 1775-1842 1
University of Delaware Research Foundation 1
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University of Delaware. Marine Laboratory 1
Vallandigham, Edward Noble, 1854-1930 1
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Waples, Gideon B., active 1832-1864 1
Waples, Gideon, 1800-1837 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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