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Henry Clay presentation items

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0154
Abstract This collection contains presentation memorabilia related to Henry Clay, American Statesman, given to Henry Clay Reed, University of Delaware professor and historian, by Henry Clay Conrad, historian and State Archivist of Delaware. Items include two copies of engravings of Henry Clay, a silk ribbon commemorating Clay, and a presentation letter (1929) from Conrad to Reed. Reed had worked for Conrad at the Delaware State Archives. In the letter, Henry Clay Conrad explains that he is sending...
Dates: circa 1840, 1929

Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0556
Abstract The papers of American art historian Mary Bartlett Cowdrey comprise nine linear feet of notes; correspondence; manuscripts of published and unpublished books and articles; engravings and lithographs from published sources; photographs of paintings and engravings; postcards; clippings from books, exhibition catalogs, magazines, and newspapers, for approximately 1,600 American artists active during the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. The collection is arranged in five series that...
Dates: 1834-1963; Majority of material found within 1930-1954

Donald Robert Lettis, “Intaglio Method of Printmaking” manual

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1099
Abstract

Donald Robert (Bob) Lettis (1925-2014) was an American artist and educator who taught printmaking and art education at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston from 1966 to 1987. "Intaglio Method of Printmaking" is a portfolio handcrafted by Lettis of his manuscript instructions for creating engravings, etchings, and drypoint prints. The manual contains descriptions of seven intaglio processes and incorporates the author's own printing plates and prints as examples.

Dates: between 1951-1987

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

Horace Traubel collection of Walt Whitman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0819
Abstract

This collection comprises materials collected by Horace Traubel, American journalist, on his longtime friend, poet Walt Whitman.

Dates: 1854-1916

Joseph Willett 1856 eclectic scrapbook of engravings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0043
Abstract

This American scrapbook bears the name Joseph Willett, along with the date 1856, on the inside cover and is predominantly comprised of monochromatic engravings, printed images, and illustrated verses.

Dates: 1856-1880

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Engravings (prints) 5
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Account books 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
American literature--19th century--History and criticism 1
American poetry--19th century 1
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Aquatint (printing process) 1
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Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Art Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
Art, American--19th century--Indexes 1
Art, American--Exhibitions 1
Art, Modern--19th century--Indexes 1
Art--Study and teaching 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Boston (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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Commonplace books 1
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Dance cards 1
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Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
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Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
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Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
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Magazines (periodicals) 1
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Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
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New Castle County (Del.) 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--18th century 1
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American Academy of the Fine Arts 1
American Art-Union 1
Bayley, Solomon 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
Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902 1
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Conrad, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1852- 1
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, 1910-1974 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 1
Durrie, George Henry, 1820-1863 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
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Lettis, Donald Robert, 1925-2014 1
Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868 1
National Academy of Design (U.S.) 1
Palmer, F. (Fanny), 1812-1876 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Willett, Joseph, active 1856-1880 1
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