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Account book for a Wilmington, Delaware, dry goods store

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0001
Abstract

Daybook for an unidentified store located in Wilmington, Delaware, focusing on the sale of textiles and other dry goods. The daybook consists of daily transactions with names, items, and additional notes added in.

Dates: 1859 September 30-1865

Elizabeth Ashburnham receipt book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0003
Abstract

This receipt book was kept by Elizabeth Ashburnham of Wilmington, Delaware, between 1824 and 1866 to record her expenditures, primarily payments for boarding and taxes.

Dates: 1824 August 3-1866 May 26

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

Sarah R. Latimer account-keeping exercise book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0150
Abstract

Sarah R. Latimer, a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, completed this account-keeping exercise circa 1808-1809. The exercise includes a sample daybook and ledgers.

Dates: approximately 1808-1809

Caleb S. Layton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0147
Abstract

Consists of ten letters, one receipt, and one account book belonging to nineteenth-century Delaware attorney, legislator, and judge Caleb S. Layton (1798-1882), reflecting his legal career and personal life and finances.

Dates: 1845-1881

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

University of Delaware Library collection of websites relating to the Library’s literary collections

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0799
Abstract

This collection documents websites and social media related to authors, playwrights, and other literary figures and organizations which complement and enrich existing literary collections held in Special Collections. This collection includes sites related to University of Delaware Library holdings in American literature; Irish literature; and theatre.

Dates: 2016-2017

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Account books 5
Correspondence 4
Wilmington (Del.) 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 3
Minutes (administrative records) 3
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Photographs 3
VHS 3
Architectural drawings (visual works) 2
Audio cassette 2
Daybooks 2
Diaries 2
Ephemera (general) 2
Finance, Personal--United States--History--19th century 2
Financial records 2
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 2
Historic buildings 2
Invoices 2
Land surveys 2
Ledgers (account books) 2
Magazines (periodicals) 2
Memorandums 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Newsletters 2
Newspapers 2
Photograph albums 2
Realia 2
Sheet music 2
Visitors' books 2
Wills 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--19th century 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--20th century 2
1/4 inch audio tape 1
Abstract notes 1
Administrative records 1
Administrative reports 1
Administrators 1
Affirmative action programs--Delaware 1
African American authors 1
African American churches--Delaware 1
African American civil rights workers 1
African Americans--Civil rights--Delaware--History--20th century 1
African Americans--Domestic life 1
African Americans--Education--Delaware--History--20th century 1
African Americans--Race identity 1
Agendas (administrative records) 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
American literature 1
American literature--African American authors 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural surveys 1
Architecture, Victorian--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Auction catalogs 1
Audits 1
Authors 1
Awards 1
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Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Betacam 1
Bills, Legislative--United States 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Blogs 1
Bookkeeping--History 1
Bookstores 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 1
Bullfights--History 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Busing for school integration--Law and legislation--Delaware 1
Buttons (information artifacts) 1
Bylaws (administrative records) 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Calendars 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Certificates 1
Civil rights movements--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century 1
Color slides 1
Commonplace books 1
Compact discs 1
Composers 1
Condition reports 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Credit unions 1
Customs records 1
DVD 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
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Delaware 1
Delaware City (Del.) 1
Delaware--History 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
German 1
 
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
University of Delaware 2
Ashburnham, Elizabeth, approximately 1774-1868 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bolger, Dermot, 1959- 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Brenner, Summer 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 v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Creator unidentified 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
Delaware Humanities Forum 1
Delaware Theatre Company 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Field, Edward, 1924- 1
Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 1
Friends of Rockwood Inc. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Governor Bacon Health Center 1
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Kaufman, Alan 1
Latimer, Sarah R. 1
Layton, C. S. (Caleb Sipple), 1798-1882 1
Mitchell, Jane E. (Jane Evelyn), 1921-2004 1
Mitchell, Littleton P. (Littleton Purnell), 1918-2009 1
Mullen, Shaun D., 1947- 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Prettyman, A. W. 1
Prettyman, A. W.--Correspondence 1
Prettyman, Solomon 1
Prettyman, Solomon--Correspondence 1
Progressive Club of Delaware 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rebeck, Theresa 1
Redding, Louis L. 1
Reed, Ishmael, 1938- 1
Rockwood Museum (New Castle County, Del.) 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Salmon Poetry Ltd. 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Stavis, Barrie 1
Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Air Corps 1
University of San Francisco 1
Vincent, Gilbert Tapley, 1946- 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
West Chester University of Pennsylvania 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Yagoda, Ben 1
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