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Samuel Bancroft and Joseph Bancroft and Sons records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0067
Abstract

Five volumes of financial transactions for Samuel Bancroft and the Joseph Bancroft and Sons Co., textile manufacturers in Delaware and Pennsylvania during the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1869-1913

Mahlon and James Batten family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0793
Abstract

This collection consists of four volumes containing tax assessments, mathematical exercises, accounts, memoranda, and school compositions created by Mahlon and James Batten of Pencader Hundred, Delaware, between 1832 and 1874.

Dates: 1832-1874

Selected from various authors: Chosen paragraphs, agreeable to the fancy of the compiler

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0005
Abstract

This single bound volume was compiled by Dr. Samuel Henry Black between 1810 and 1844, containing transcribed quotations, prose, and poetry; agricultural memorandums (1815); and an open letter in which he declined to run for the Delaware General Assembly (1821).

Dates: 1810-1844

Frederic A. Blank papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0572
Abstract

The papers of centenarian, World War I veteran, and retired wall covering entrepreneur Frederic Blank, spanning close to 150 years, illustrate the varied life of a twentieth-century businessman and provide important sample books of iconic mid-twentieth-century American wall coverings.

Dates: 1866-1991; Majority of material found within 1917-1974

Harold Brayman papers supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0261s
Abstract Harold Brayman (1900-1988), a political journalist and former director of the Public Relations Department of Du Pont Company for 21 years, helped establish a concept of public relations which was widely emulated throughout the United States. The Harold Brayman papers supplement, spanning from 1914-1992, contains substantial editions to the original collection, documenting Brayman's dual careers in the fields of journalism and public relations. The collection includes correspondence,...
Dates: 1914-1992

Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs farm account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0010
Abstract

This farm account book was kept by Dr. Thomas Evans and Benjamin T. Biggs of Pencader Hundred, Delaware, between 1792 and 1869.

Dates: 1792-1800, 1847-1869

Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0629
Abstract The Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers document the life and career of the Delaware-based civil rights activist and educator Littleton P. Mitchell (1918-2004) and his wife Jane E. Mitchell (1921-2004). The collection contains material relating to his education, activities as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, his three decades-long leadership of the Delaware NAACP, his career as a teacher and counselor at Governor Bacon Health Center in Delaware City, and his involvement in a number of...
Dates: 1911-2009; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

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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Bancroft, Samuel, 1804-1891 1
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Bayley, Solomon 1
Biggs, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Thomas), 1821-1893 1
Black, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1782-1827 1
Blank, Frederic A., 1890-1992 1
Brayman, Harold, 1900-1988 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 v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Carpenter, Walter Samuel, 1888-1976 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cornell University 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
Delaware Humanities Forum 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Evans, Thomas, -1796 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 1
Frear, J. Allen, Jr. 1
Frederic Blank & Co. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
General Motors Corporation 1
Governor Bacon Health Center 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 1
International House 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Knickerbocker Press 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Mitchell, Jane E. (Jane Evelyn), 1921-2004 1
Mitchell, Littleton P. (Littleton Purnell), 1918-2009 1
Morrison, C. M. (Charles Munro) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
National Press Club (U.S.) 1
New York (State). Legislature 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Progressive Club of Delaware 1
Public Relations Society of America 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Redding, Louis L. 1
Republican National Committee (U.S.) 1
Republican Party (Del.) 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 1
Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. 1
United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Air Corps 1
University of Delaware 1
Walker, Stanley, 1898-1962 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
West Chester University of Pennsylvania 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Williams, John J. (John James), 1904-1988 1
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