Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 18 of 18

Thurman Adams, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0619
Abstract

Democratic Senator Thurman Adams, Jr., (1928-2009) was the longest-serving senator in the history of the Delaware General Assembly. Adams was also the president of T.G. Adams & Sons, Inc., an agricultural feed and grain business in Bridgeville, Delaware. The Thurman Adams, Jr., papers chronicle the personal and professional life of the longest-serving senator (a Democrat from the 19th District) in the history of the Delaware General Assembly.

Dates: 1939-2012; Majority of material found within 1960-2009

Selected from various authors: Chosen paragraphs, agreeable to the fancy of the compiler

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0005
Abstract

This single bound volume was compiled by Dr. Samuel Henry Black between 1810 and 1844, containing transcribed quotations, prose, and poetry; agricultural memorandums (1815); and an open letter in which he declined to run for the Delaware General Assembly (1821).

Dates: 1810-1844

Jonas Davis account book and diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0006
Abstract

This volume is an account book and diary kept by Jonas Davis, a farmer and resident of Temple, New Hampshire, between 1849 and 1859.

Dates: 1849 January 1-1859 October 8

Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station account books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0021
Abstract

These account books kept by scientist Charles L. Penny record expenses incurred by Delaware College’s Agricultural Experiment Station between 1892 and 1916. The volumes also include information on experiments conducted at the station.

Dates: 1892 July 23-1916 December 9

Samuel M. Donnell account books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0081
Abstract

The account books of Samuel M. Donnell span the dates 1852 until 1880 and encompass both Donnell's real estate concerns and his farming and household interests in Newark, Delaware.

Dates: 1852-1880; Majority of material found within 1866-1880

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

Chauncey P. Holcomb farm diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0166
Abstract

This volume is a farm diary kept by Chauncey P. Holcomb of New Castle County, Delaware, between 1843 and 1850. Holcomb recorded information related to his crops and livestock, as well as references to the weather, his health, and his involvement in agricultural reform.

Dates: 1843-1850

Index to remarkable passages : recipe book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0154
Abstract

This manuscript volume, titled “Index to Remarkable Passages,” comprises recipes for medical conditions, household problems, and agricultural concerns, and was made by an unknown creator in approximately 1803-1804.

Dates: approximately 1803-1804

Nellie Day Lawrence papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0903
Abstract Nellie Day Lawrence (born 1865) was an editor and club officer of the Turner Grange, Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, in Turner Center, Maine. The Nellie Day Lawrence papers consist of articles and drafts, manuscript copies of the Grange Banner, printed ephemera related to the Turner Grange and Maine schools, correspondence, and other writing. Topics range from musings on the weather and animals, to life in Maine, farming, the World’s Columbian Exposition, the...
Dates: 1879-1942

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

John McIntire farm ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0016
Abstract

This ledger was kept by John McIntire between 1809 and 1851 to record the accounts for his farm in New Castle County, Delaware, or Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1809-1851

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

Alfred I. Paxson family history, diary, and reflections

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0168
Abstract The Alfred I. Paxson family history, diary, and reflections consists of approximately 116 pages of handwritten commentary and reflection relating to the life of Delaware Quaker and farmer Alfred I. Paxson. The first eighty-seven pages of the volume consist of Paxson's autobiography and, later, diary entries. The final twenty-nine pages of the volume, spanning from pages 100 through 129 of the numbered journal, contain several of Paxson's "Reflections and Meditations" on topics such as death,...
Dates: 1888-1894

Receueil d'Observations

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0095-Item 0032
Abstract

This bound nineteenth-century French manuscript is a sort of commonplace book, written in part and compiled by Jean-Pierre-Casimir Marcassus de Puymaurin, records his observations about many different subjects, including agriculture, rural economic concerns, manufacturing developments, scientific experiments, medical and pharmacological remedies and recipes, historical events, and political topics.

Dates: 1825-1841

Dudley Swift diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0073
Abstract

This diary was kept by Dudley Swift, a resident of Hampden County, Massachusetts, near the town of Chicopee, between 1784 and 1844. He recorded brief entries about the weather and agricultural patterns.

Dates: 1784-1844

Samuel M. Talley trigonometry notebook and account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0112
Abstract

This trigonometry and surveying notebook belonged to Samuel M. Talley, who lived in Brandywine Hundred, near Wilmington, Delaware, in the nineteenth century. The notebook features mathematical problems and solutions related to the principles of trigonometry and the surveying of land. The latter part of the volume contains an account book listing wages due for farm labor.

Dates: 1833-1863; Majority of material found within 1833-1834

Townsend family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0445
Abstract

The Townsend family (of Delaware) papers consists of letters, accounts, and other business records, spanning the years 1809-1920, with the majority of the material falling between 1834 and 1894. The collection mainly consists of business letters sent to Samuel and John Townsend, political and personal letters sent to Samuel Townsend, and family correspondence, including twenty letters written by Edmund Townsend during the Civil War.

Dates: 1809-1920; Majority of material found within 1833-1894

Lucy E. Upson diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0077
Abstract

These four manuscripts are volumes of Lucy E. Upson’s diary, which describes life in Kosciusko County, Indiana, between 1875 and 1892. Upson remarked on the weather, her chores, visitors, various religious services, and other aspects of rural life.

Dates: 1875-1879, 1883-1892

Filtered By

  • Subject: Agriculture X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Account books 6
Agriculture--Delaware--History--19th century 6
Farmers 6
Agriculture--History--19th century 5
Diaries 5
∨ more
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
Agriculture--Societies, etc 3
Climatology--Observations--History--19th century 3
Commonplace books 3
Correspondence 3
Delaware--History--19th century 3
Memorandums 3
Agriculture--Delaware--History--20th century 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Health--History--19th century 2
Journals (accounts) 2
Ledgers (account books) 2
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--History--19th century 2
Photographs 2
Realia 2
Recipes 2
Research notes 2
Students 2
Advertisements 1
Agricultural wages--19th century 1
Agriculture 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--18th century 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--21st century 1
Agriculture--Delaware--Newark--History--19th century 1
Agriculture--France--History--18th century 1
Agriculture--France--History--19th century 1
Agriculture--Research 1
Agriculturists 1
American periodicals--Circulation 1
Autobiographies 1
Awards 1
Bills of sale 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Bookkeeping--History 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--Commerce 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Bridgeville (Del.) 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Business records 1
Businesspeople 1
Buttons (information artifacts) 1
Chicopee (Mass.) 1
Children--Delaware--Societies and clubs 1
China--History--20th century 1
Clergy 1
Color photographs 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Dairying 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1775-1865 1
Delaware--Politics and government--19th century 1
Delaware--Politics and government--20th century 1
Delaware--Politics and government--21st century 1
Drafts (documents) 1
Education--Curricula--History--19th century 1
Families--United States--History--18th century 1
Families--United States--History--19th century 1
Families--United States--History--20th century 1
Farm life--Maine--History--19th century 1
Farmers (people in agriculture) 1
Farmers--Diaries 1
Finance, Personal--Delaware--Newark--History--19th century 1
Financial records 1
Forms (documents) 1
Formulas, recipes, etc--History--19th century 1
France--History--18th century 1
France--History--19th century 1
Freemasons--20th century 1
Freemasons--21st century 1
Fruit trade--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Greeting cards 1
Hampden County (Mass.) 1
Hawaii--History--20th century 1
Hillsborough County (N.H.) 1
Housekeeping--History--19th century 1
Indentures 1
Indiana--History--19th century 1
Instructions (document genre) 1
Invitations 1
Kosciusko County (Ind.) 1
Leases 1
Legislators 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Lumber trade--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Lumbermen 1
Manuscript maps 1
Maps (documents) 1
Marshallton (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Mathematics 1
+ ∧ less
 
Language
English 17
French 1
 
Names
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Biggs, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Thomas), 1821-1893 1
Black, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1782-1827 1
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
∨ more
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Davis, Jonas, 1792-1872 1
Delaware College 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Delaware. Supreme Court 1
Donnell, Samuel M. 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. 1
Episcopal Church 1
Evans, Thomas, -1796 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
Holcomb, Chauncey P., 1803-1855 1
Lawrence, Nellie Day, 1865- 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
Maine State Grange 1
McIntire, John 1
Medill, Agnes P. 1
Minner, Ruth Ann, 1935- 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1775-1865 1
Morris, Susan Sophia, 1800-1868 1
Morse family 1
Paxson, Alfred I. 1
Paxson, Alfred I.--Diaries 1
Paxson, Ann Eliza 1
Paxson, Joseph W. 1
Paxson, Mary P. Phipps 1
Paxson, Phebe Kirk 1
Paxson, Sarah W. 1
Penny, C.L. (Charles Lyndall) 1
Puymaurin, Jean-Pierre-Casimir de Marcassus, baron de, 1757-1841 1
Shippen family 1
Swift, Dudley 1
Talley, Samuel M., 1815-1896 1
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Delaware. Agricultural Experiment Station 1
Upson, Lucy E., 1818-1892 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
+ ∧ less