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Karl Bissinger papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0682
Abstract

The papers of American photojournalist, restaurateur, and peace activist Karl Bissinger (1914-2008) encompass nearly seventy years of professional activity. This collection not only provides abundant documentation of Bissinger's careers in photography and social activism, but also offers rich visual resources for the history of photography in post-World War II America.

Dates: 1800, 1935-2008

Harriet S. Crothers travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0117
Abstract

This travel diary documents the honeymoon tour of continental Europe taken by American Harriet S. Crothers in the fall of 1846. Entries describe tourist activities she and her husband undertook while visiting major cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Czechoslovakia.

Dates: 1846 August 18-November 22

Henry Kirke Brown: The Father of American Sculpture : typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0561
Abstract This collection comprises the carbon typescript for an unpublished manuscript titled "Henry Kirke Brown: The Father of American Sculpture," which was compiled, written, and edited by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown. It additionally includes an abridged version with the same title, also prepared by Bush-Brown. The typescript contains a description of Henry Kirke Brown's life, transcripts of his correspondence, photographs of his homes and artistic works, poems, sketches, and a genealogical chart of...
Dates: 1836-1933; Majority of material found within 1836-1882

Betty Lee Hutchinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0839
Abstract

Betty Lee Hutchinson (1925-2020), a Democrat and Newark City Council member (1977-1980 and 1984-1988) was born November 18, 1925, in Uniontown, PA, to Harry J. Truman, Sr. (1897-1965), and Merle Carte Truman (1901-2001). The Betty Lee Hutchinson papers document the personal interests and civic activities of a woman with ties to Newark, Delaware, and the University of Delaware community.

Dates: 1900-2012; Majority of material found within 1975-2005

Incidental notes of a trip to Europe made in 1868

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0029
Abstract

John C. Giles's journal contains a detailed account of his daily activities on a grand tour of Europe taken with his wife and daughter from June 3 to November 24, 1868. Giles described landmarks, churches, museums, plays, concerts, weather, hotels, transportation, shopping, dining, correspondence, people met, and social activities.

Dates: 1868 June 3-November 24

William A. Ingram diary of European travel

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0115
Abstract

This travel diary documents the mid-nineteenth-century European excursion of American William A. Ingram. Along with several other young male friends, he visited Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Austria.

Dates: circa 1853

Walter Courtenay Pepys travel journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0120
Abstract

The journal of Englishman Walter Courtenay Pepys chronicles trips to Italy, France, Monaco, and Algeria in 1867. Entries describe travel conditions, landmarks visited, hotels, meals, and social engagements.

Dates: 1866 December 31-1868 January 13

Journal of the U.S.S. Enterprise

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0070
Abstract

Deck log describing the journey of the United States steam sloop Enterprise from New York to European Station duty from November 1, 1878, through May 10, 1880.

Dates: 1874-1882; Majority of material found within 1878 November 1-1880 May 10

Sarah Marks Stockton travel journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0118
Abstract

This journal of New Jersey resident Sarah Marks Stockton chronicles her travels in Italy and stay in Rome as a member of high society from 1858 to 1860. Stockton’s journal contains extremely detailed autograph entries describing her stay in Italy with her children while her husband John P. Stockton served as the American minister to the Papal States.

Dates: 1858-1860

George Adolphus Storey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0586
Abstract

The papers of George Adolphus Storey, R.A., prolific British painter and longtime teacher of perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, include both published and unpublished books, poems, plays, fiction, essays, lectures, notes, sketches, inventories, diaries, and other personal writings. Also included are several items belonging to his daughter, Mary Gladys Storey, an actress well-known for her charitable work during World Wars I and II.

Dates: 1848-1946; Majority of material found within 1848-1919

Thomas Ward travel journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0078
Abstract

This journal was kept by Thomas Ward, Jr., and chronicles his sightseeing trip to England, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in 1860. Entries provide a record of the voyage and a summary of each day of sightseeing.

Dates: 1860 June 12-September 15

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Italy--Description and travel 10
Diaries 9
France--Description and travel 6
Tourism--Europe--History--19th century 5
Germany--Description and travel 4
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Switzerland--Description and travel 4
Travelers 4
Voyages and travels--History--19th century 4
Manuscripts (documents) 3
Belgium--Description and travel 2
Black-and-white photographs 2
Correspondence 2
England--Description and travel 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Europe--Description and travel 2
Ireland--Description and travel 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Poems 2
Specimens 2
Travelers--Diaries 2
Activists 1
Alexandria (Egypt)--Description and travel 1
Alexandria (Egypt)--History--19th century 1
Algeria--Description and travel 1
Antwerp (Belgium)--Description and travel 1
Antwerp (Belgium)--History--19th century 1
Art--Societies, etc--19th century 1
Art--Study and teaching--France--History--19th century 1
Art--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History--19th century 1
Art--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History--20th century 1
Austria--Description and travel 1
Authors 1
Autobiographies 1
Barbados 1
Beirut (Lebanon)--Description and travel 1
Beirut (Lebanon)--History--19th century 1
Bethany (W. Va.) 1
Birthday cards 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Bronze founding--United States--History--19th century 1
California--Description and travel 1
Cádiz (Spain)--Description and travel 1
Cádiz (Spain)--History--19th century 1
Charities--England--History--20th century 1
Children 1
Christmas cards 1
Collages (visual works) 1
Color photographs 1
Color transparencies 1
Contact sheets 1
Copenhagen (Denmark)--Description and travel 1
Copenhagen (Denmark)--History--19th century 1
Crew lists 1
Cuba--Description and travel 1
Delaware--Politics and government 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1951- 1
Equestrian statues--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century 1
Equestrian statues--Washington (D.C.)--19th century 1
Essays 1
Fashion photography--History--20th century 1
Florida--Description and travel 1
Galley proofs 1
Genre painting, British--19th century 1
Government records 1
Grand tours (Education)--History--19th century 1
Great Britain--Description and travel 1
Greece 1
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Greeting cards 1
Inventories 1
Invitations 1
Isle of Wight (England)--Description and travel 1
Isle of Wight (England)--History--19th century 1
Itineraries 1
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--Description and travel 1
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--History--19th century 1
Journals (accounts) 1
Kiel (Germany)--Description and travel 1
Kiel (Germany)--History--19th century 1
Kristiania (Norway)--Description and travel 1
Kristiania (Norway)--History--19th century 1
Le Havre (France)--Description and travel 1
Le Havre (France)--History--19th century 1
Lecture notes 1
Lectures 1
Logbooks--19th century 1
London (England)--Social life and customs--19th century 1
Madeira (Madeira Islands)--Description and travel 1
Madeira (Madeira Islands)--History--19th century 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
Maps (documents) 1
Messina (Italy : Province)--Description and travel 1
Messina (Italy : Province)--History--19th century 1
Michigan--Description and travel 1
Military officers 1
Monaco--Description and travel 1
Morocco--Description and travel 1
Naples (Italy)--Description and travel 1
Naples (Italy)--History--19th century 1
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Language
French 4
Italian 2
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
 
Names
Beck, Julian, 1925-1985 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Bissinger, Karl 1
Bissinger, Karl. The luminous years : portraits at mid-century 1
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Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Brown, Henry Kirke, 1814-1886 1
Brown, Lydia Louise, 1810-1879 1
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 1
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 1
Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke, 1857-1935 1
Cafe Nicholson 1
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833-1898 1
Campbell, Sandy 1
Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994. Stimmen von Marrakesch. English 1
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Chaikin, Joseph, 1935-2003 1
Clevenger, Shobal Vail, 1843-1920 1
Craven, Wayne. 1
Crothers, Harriet S. 1
Di Prima, Diane 1
Domestic Resurrection Circus 1
Dulong, Jean Louis 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 1
Enterprise (Sloop) 1
Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902 1
Giles, Isabella, -1890 1
Giles, John C., approximately 1825-1893 1
Giles, John C., approximately 1825-1893--Diaries 1
Giles, Mary Annie 1
Gregg, Linda 1
Hanley, Richard 1
Harding, Chester, 1792-1866 1
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 1
Hodgson, J. E. (John Evan), 1831-1895 1
Hutchinson, Betty Lee 1
Hutchinson, Harry D. 1
Ingram, William A. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Jones, Russel C. (Russel Cameron) 1
League of Women Voters of Delaware 1
Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921 1
Lewis, Edna 1
Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.) 1
Malina, Judith, 1926-2015 1
Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898 1
Martinelli, Sheri 1
Miss Gladys Storey’s Bovril Fund 1
Newark (Del.). City Council 1
Newark Free Library (Newark, Del.) 1
Nicholson, John, 1916-2016 1
Open Theater 1
Owens, Jeanne 1
Paley, Grace 1
Paul Taylor Dance Company 1
Pepys, Walter Courtenay, 1840- 1
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 1
Rorem, Ned, 1923- 1
Roselle, David P. 1
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 1
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 1
Selfridge, T. O. (Thomas Oliver), 1836-1924 1
Sparhawk, George, active 1874-1882 1
Sparhawk, George, active 1878-1880--Diaries 1
St. John, Julia Stockton, 1860-1905 1
St. John’s Wood Clique 1
Stockton, John P. (John Potter), 1826-1900 1
Stockton, John Potter, 1852-1927 1
Stockton, Richard, 1853-1868 1
Stockton, Robert Field, 1852-1891 1
Stockton, Sarah Marks, 1829-1887 1
Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus), 1834-1919 1
Storey, Mary Gladys, 1886-1978 1
United States. Navy--History--19th century 1
United States. Navy--Officers--Diaries 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Michigan 1
University of Pittsburgh 1
Walker, Frederick, 1840-1875 1
War Resisters League 1
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910 1
Ward, Thomas, Jr., active 1860 1
Windham, Donald 1
Wynfield, David Wilkie, 1837-1887 1
Yale, Catherine Brooks 1
Yale, Linus, 1821-1868 1
Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918 1
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