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Philadelphia Custom House records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0781
Abstract The Philadelphia Custom House records consist of materials generated by and related to the United States Customs Service of the Port of Philadelphia from 1779 to 1932. These records illustrate commercial and shipping interests, as well as foreign trade relations, in the United States from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The materials also highlight the growth of the U.S. Customs Service as it took on new responsibilities and wielded greater authority over the course of...
Dates: 1779-1934; Majority of material found within 1790-1900

Friends of Rockwood records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0675
Abstract The Friends of Rockwood, Inc., supported the maintenance of the site, collections, and educational mission of the Rockwood Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, from 1976 to 2014. The Friends of Rockwood records comprise the organization’s general administrative records; officer and member files; board of directors’ minutes and correspondence; files pertaining to the Friends’ association with New Castle County, Delaware; records relating to properties and capital improvements at Rockwood;...
Dates: 1890-2017; Majority of material found within 1976-2014

Percy H. Muir letters to Rev. James Brown

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0953
Abstract

British author, bibliographer, and antiquarian bookseller Percy H. Muir (1894-1979) corresponded with Church of Scotland minister and book collector Rev. James Brown regarding the purchase of books and illustrations which reflected Brown's collecting interests.

Dates: 1951-1964

Newark Publishing Co. records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0879
Abstract Newark Publishing Co. was a Newark, Delaware, printing business established in the mid-20th century and was owned and operated by William H. Durham from circa 1967 to 1981. Newark Publishing Co. records comprises over 3000 job printing files created by the press for largely Newark, Delaware-based businesses between 1963 and 1981. The collection also includes administrative and financial records of the company and its precursor, the Newark Post weekly newspaper,...
Dates: 1936-1981; Majority of material found within 1971-1981

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

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Clippings (information artifacts) 3
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Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 2
Historic buildings 2
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Ledgers (account books) 2
Magazines (periodicals) 2
Minutes (administrative records) 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Newsletters 2
Newspapers 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--20th century 2
Photographs 2
Printed ephemera 2
Shipping--United States--History--19th century 2
Stationery 2
VHS 2
Visitors' books 2
Wills 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--20th century 2
Abstract notes 1
Account books 1
Administrative records 1
Administrative reports 1
Advertising--History--20th century 1
Advertising--United States--History--20th century 1
African American authors 1
Agendas (administrative records) 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
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Architecture, Victorian--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Auction catalogs 1
Audio cassette 1
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Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Betacam 1
Bills of lading 1
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Black-and-white photographs 1
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Booksellers 1
Booksellers and bookselling--Great Britain--History--20th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Business cards 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Bylaws (administrative records) 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Church bulletins 1
Coastwise shipping 1
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Customs administration—Officials and employees 1
DVD 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Drawbacks 1
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Ephemera (general) 1
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Names
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 2
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 2
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 2
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 2
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 2
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Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 2
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 2
Bayley, Solomon 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, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Brown, James (Reverend) 1
Brown, James (Reverend)--Correspondence 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Curtis Paper Company 1
Delaware. Division of State Police 1
Deval, Laurie (1923-1981) 1
Deval, Laurie (1923-1981)--Correspondence 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
DuMar Printing Co. 1
Durham, William H., 1905-1981 1
E. Mathews (Firm) 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Friends of Rockwood Inc. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
General Foods Corporation 1
Harlan C. Williams Co. 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Minuteman Press (Newark, Del.) 1
Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace), 1894-1979 1
Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace), 1894-1979--Correspondence 1
NVF Company 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
Newark Country Club (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark Publishing Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark United Methodist Church (Newark, Del.) 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Porter Motor Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rockwood Museum (New Castle County, Del.) 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shamrock Printing Co. 1
United States Custom House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
United States. Department of the Treasury 1
United States. Division of Customs 1
University of Delaware 1
Vincent, Gilbert Tapley, 1946- 1
W.L. Gore and Associates 1
WNRK radio (Newark, Del.) 1
Ware, Richard T. 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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