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Delaware Miscellany collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0598
Abstract

The Delaware Miscellany collection includes three large, green buckram-bound volumes compiled by William Ditto Lewis, which contain various documents pertaining to the history of Delaware and the surrounding region, and the University of Delaware.

Dates: 1825-1958; Majority of material found within 1920-1958

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

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

Marion H. Steele papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0439
Abstract

The papers of Marion H. Steele, former managing editor of the Journal of Home Economics and University of Delaware graduate.

Dates: 1906-1999; Majority of material found within 1923-1985

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Clippings (information artifacts) 3
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Biographies (documents) 2
Delaware--History--18th century 2
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Delaware--History--20th century 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Invitations 2
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Negatives (photographic) 2
New Castle County (Del.) 2
Postcards 2
VHS 2
Women--Delaware--History--20th century 2
Account books 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Barbados 1
Bethany (W. Va.) 1
Bibliographies 1
Birthday cards 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
California--Description and travel 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Children 1
Christmas cards 1
Color photographs 1
Commonplace books 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Delaware--Politics and government 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1951- 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Editors (assembling, revising) 1
England--Description and travel 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Fairs 1
Financial records 1
Florida--Description and travel 1
France--Description and travel 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Germany--Description and travel 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Greece 1
Greeting cards 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Histories (literature genre) 1
Home Economics--United States--20th century 1
Invoices 1
Italy--Description and travel 1
Journals (periodicals) 1
Land surveys 1
Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
Later prints 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Lithographic engravings (prints) 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
Marriage certificates 1
Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
Michigan--Description and travel 1
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Minute books 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
French 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Italian 1
 
Names
American Home Economics Association 1
Atwater, Helen W. 1
Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
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Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
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
Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 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
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hagley Museum 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Hutchinson, Betty Lee 1
Hutchinson, Harry D. 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Jones, Russel C. (Russel Cameron) 1
League of Women Voters of Delaware 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Long, David J. 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Newark (Del.). City Council 1
Newark Free Library (Newark, Del.) 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roselle, David P. 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Steele, Marion H. (Marion Harlan), 1904-1985 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Delaware Research Foundation 1
University of Delaware--History--19th century 1
University of Delaware--History--20th century 1
University of Delaware. Marine Laboratory 1
University of Michigan 1
University of Pittsburgh 1
Vallandigham, Edward Noble, 1854-1930 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Whitaker, Epher, 1820-1916 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wilmington (Ship) 1
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