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Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection
Collection
Identifier: GRA 0098-F0001
Abstract
The Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection comprises 76 bookplates belonging to prominent early twentieth-century Delawareans and regional organizations. Individuals represented include statesmen, businessmen, and members of distinguished families, such as the du Pont and Warner families.
Dates:
1891, circa 1920-1940
Edith Gerselda Lynch autograph book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0172
Abstract
This item is a 1935 autograph book that belonged to Edith Gerselda Lynch, a student in the class of 1937 at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware. The book contains signatures and messages from Lynch's friends, acquaintances, and family, including a signature from Howard High School teacher and librarian Pauline A. Young. The pages provide a glimpse of student life at a Delaware-based African American high school prior to desegregation.
Dates:
1935