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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art historian Mary Bartlett Cowdrey comprise nine linear feet of notes; correspondence; manuscripts of published and unpublished books and articles; engravings and lithographs from published sources; photographs of paintings and engravings; postcards; clippings from books, exhibition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

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

George W. and Pauline Murray, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0702
Abstract This collection documents the lives of Newark, Delaware, residents George W. Murray, Jr., and Pauline E. Murray during World War II. The collection is small, yet it gives a glimpse of both military service and the homefront experiences of the young married couple during war. Included are handwritten correspondence exchanged by the married couple while George Murray was stationed at Army Air Force bases on the continental United States and in Europe, illustrating life both at home and abroad...
Dates: 1939-1946

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

Frank W. Tober papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0602
Abstract

The Frank W. Tober papers comprise letters, postcards, photographs, pamphlets, magazines, newspaper clippings, newsletters, printing ephemera, invoices, notebooks, woodblocks, prints, coins, sculpture, and other realia. A major portion of the papers relate to Tober's collections and collecting activities. Tober was a chemical engineer with a substantial personal interest in the study of rare books, printing, Napoleon and the French Revolution, and, in particular, literary forgery.

Dates: 1791-1995; Majority of material found within 1945-1995

Miriam E. Welliver travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0172
Abstract

The Miriam E. Welliver travel journal documents this Pennsylvania school teacher's month-long, 5,100 mile automobile trip across 19 states and Canada via handwritten journal entries, black-and-white photographs, postcards, telegrams, plant specimens, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1934

Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0982
Abstract W. H. Auden (1907-1973) was an English and American poet, translator, librettist, playwright, and essayist. The Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection comprises Wilson’s collected materials created by and related to W. H. Auden. The collection includes manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, and published versions of Auden’s poetry, translations, prose, and dramatic works; programs and promotional ephemera for Auden’s readings and events as well as other performances related to the...
Dates: circa 1930-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

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Postcards 6
Correspondence 5
Clippings (information artifacts) 3
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Diaries 2
Engravings (prints) 2
Florida--Description and travel 2
Greeting cards 2
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Lithographic engravings (prints) 2
Maps (documents) 2
Marriage certificates 2
Michigan--Description and travel 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
New Castle County (Del.) 2
Notebooks 2
Obituaries 2
Pamphlets 2
Passports 2
Photographs 2
Printed ephemera 2
Tourism--History--20th century 2
VHS 2
West Virginia--Description and travel 2
Wills 2
Women--Delaware--History--20th century 2
Account books 1
Advertisements 1
African American authors 1
Alabama--Description and travel 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
American poetry--20th century 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Arkansas--Description and travel 1
Art, American--19th century--Indexes 1
Art, American--Exhibitions 1
Art, Modern--19th century--Indexes 1
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Automobile travel--Canada--History--20th century 1
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Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
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German 3
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Cherokee 1
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Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
 
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American Academy of the Fine Arts 1
American Art-Union 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Aument family 1
Aument, Anna 1
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Aument, George M. 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 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
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, 1910-1974 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Durrie, George Henry, 1820-1863 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 1
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fleck, Robert D., 1947- 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
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 1
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 1
Hutchinson, Betty Lee 1
Hutchinson, Harry D. 1
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 1
Jaffe, Rhoda, 1923-1967 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
Kallman, Chester, 1921-1975 1
League of Women Voters of Delaware 1
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 1
Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868 1
Murray, George W., 1920-2010 1
Murray, Pauline E., 1919-1997 1
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 1
National Academy of Design (U.S.) 1
Newark (Del.). City Council 1
Newark Free Library (Newark, Del.) 1
Nobility Silver Company 1
Oak Knoll Books (Firm) 1
Palmer, F. (Fanny), 1812-1876 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pucca Press 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 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
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 1
Tober, Ellen Brady 1
Tober, Frank W., 1919-1995 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Michigan 1
University of Pittsburgh 1
Welliver, Miriam E. 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016 1
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