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John C. Brinck autobiographical sketch
This volume contains an autobiographical sketch of John C. Brinck’s childhood in upstate New York, mercantile career in New York City, and travels to the Midwest, covering the period between 1811 and the early 1890s.
Budd family papers
This collection includes early nineteenth-century correspondence of the Budd family of Philadelphia (primarily to or from lawyer Thomas Allibone Budd) and the Davis family of Smyrna, Delaware, and late nineteenth-century photographs of Budd family descendants.
My Journey to Memphis
This journal belonged to P. B. Durfee and chronicles two trips from Providence, Rhode Island, to Memphis, Tennessee, where he worked as a clerk during the 1860s.
Morris family films
Hugh M. Morris (1878-1966) was a Delaware lawyer and served as a federal district judge from 1919 to 1930. The Morris family films collection features home videos created by the Judge Hugh M. Morris family. These videos are dated from 1928 to 1955, and document both their travels and life on the Judge Morris Estate on Polly Drummond Hill in Newark, Delaware.