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Edgar Rice Burroughs comic book collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0631
Abstract The Edgar Rice Burroughs comic book collection is an artificial collection of comic books inspired by the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs, as published by Dell Publishing Co., Marvel Comics Group, DC Comics, Western Publishing Company (Gold Key Comics), and others from 1953 to 1977. The character Tarzan is the primary focus of these comic books; a minority of the comics expand upon Burroughs's series of Mars novels. As examples of other Burroughs-inspired items, the collection also includes...
Dates: 1953-1977

Nancy W. Burton copybook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0096
Abstract

This copybook of mathematical exercises was created by Ann “Nancy” W. Burton, likely a resident of Sussex County, Delaware, between 1815 and 1820. The volume contains rules, examples, tables, and applications of mathematical principles.

Dates: 1815-1820

Journal of Robert Capen

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0075
Abstract

This volume is a receipt book kept by the Boston, Massachusetts, shipping firm of Thompson and Gridley for the period 1758-1765 and is interspersed with the diary of Robert Capen. The diary was written in 1811 and 1812. The entries document the weather and wind direction as well as occurances in the town of Canton, Massachusetts. There is also a single account for Samuel Capen of Canton to Robert Capen, for the period 1810-1812.

Dates: 1758-1812

Martha L. Carothers collection of paper sample catalogs and art and design publications

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0997
Abstract

Martha L. Carothers is a book artist and Professor Emerita of Art and Design at the University of Delaware who specializes in graphic design and book arts (typography, book design, bookbinding, and letterpress printing). This collection comprises paper sample catalogs and art and design publications collected by Carothers in support of her teaching and artistic activities.

Dates: circa 1963-2013; Majority of material found within 1970-2000

Martha L. Carothers student artists' books collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0868
Abstract

Martha L. Carothers is a book artist and professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware specializing in graphic design and book arts. The Martha L. Carothers student artists’ books collection comprises over 500 artists’ books created by students of Martha Carothers’ ART 309 course at the University of Delaware from 1983 to 2016. The collection documents thirty-four years of student projects in the application of book-arts concepts and techniques.

Dates: 1983-2016

Carpenter Paper Company cabinet and paper samples

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0770
Abstract

Incorporated in 1890, the Carpenter Paper Company was the first paper warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska. The Carpenter Paper Company cabinet and paper samples consist of approximately ninety booklets and sample books of envelopes, writing paper, and cardboard dating between 1900 and the 1920s, and the coabinet which housed these materials.

Dates: approximately 1900-1920s

Robert C. Carter photograph album of the St. Francis Dam disaster site

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0171
Abstract

This photograph album, which belonged to Robert C. Carter, contains thirty-one black-and-white photographs of the site of the St. Francis Dam disaster in the San Francisquito Canyon, near Los Angeles, California. The photographs were taken in 1928, shortly after the dam's failure. Several pictures contain young Carter and his family posing together or traversing the rocky site.

Dates: 1928

Carty family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0507
Abstract

The Carty family papers, 1815-1912, represent nearly a century of the business activities as well as the personal lives of various members of the Carty family of New Jersey. The collection also includes papers of the Shreve family, which seems to have been related to the primary family in some way. The material consists mainly of receipts, account ledgers, and personal and business correspondence.

Dates: 1815-1912

Book of hours : Use of Noyon

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0095-Item 0031
Abstract

Book of hours, probably for the Use of Noyon.

Dates: approximately 1500s

M. Clark Chambers Kay Boyle collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0623
Abstract The M. Clark Chambers Kay Boyle collection consists of materials collected by Chambers during the fifteen year process of compiling and researching his bibliography of her work. It consists of books and periodicals containing works by Boyle, reviews of her work, interviews, and other material. A great deal of the material is in the form of photocopies. There is also a small group material pertaining to the research and composition of the bibliography as well as a small group original Boyle...
Dates: 1921-2002

Journal of Travels Commencing from the Year 1798

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0009
Abstract Richard Champney’s memoir, which he entitled in full "Journal of Travels commencing from the year 1798, through various parts, of England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, United-States of North America, Denmark, Germany, Holland, & the Netherlands. &c. by Richard Champney," was handwritten in four bound volumes and are a polished and edited version of daily journals kept by Richard Champney and his parents. The journals detail Champney's childhood journey from...
Dates: 1827-1828

Gérard Charrière papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0785
Abstract

Gérard Charrière (1935- ) is a Swiss book artist and painter. The Gérard Charrière papers consist of correspondence, artists' books, catalogs, brochures, periodicals, postcards, artworks, sketches, and printed ephemera collected and created by Charrière. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence and materials from Charrière’s artist friends and colleagues.

Dates: 1960-2016; Majority of material found within 1980-2000

Classics Illustrated collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0647
Abstract The Classics Illustrated collection is a collection of comic books from four versions of the Classics Illustratedseries. Classics Illustrated published adaptations of the classics of literature in comic book format, with the intention of introducing literature to younger readers. The bulk of the collection comprises 79 issues from the original Classics Illustrated series, which was created by Albert Lewis Kanter...
Dates: 1942-1998; Majority of material found within 1942-1969

Clockmaker and silversmith’s account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0022
Abstract

This ledger was kept by Robinson Perkins, a New Hampshire clockmaker and silversmith, between 1801 and 1831. Newspapers and other printed clippings were pasted to many pages in the volume in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1801 January 16-1831 February 15; circa 1850s-1870s

Louis Henry and Marguerite Cohn Hemingway collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0100
Abstract

This collection of books, periodicals, correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera and papers relating to Ernest Hemingway was gathered together by Captain Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953), a bookseller who was Hemingway's first bibliographer.

Dates: 1916-1985; Majority of material found within 1925-1965

Thomas Coode manuscript recipe book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0098
Abstract

Thomas Coode’s nineteenth-century manuscript recipe book contains instructions for domestic and trade processes ranging from plate cleaning and preserving meat to preparing fireworks and varnishes. The volume also features notes on book-binding and glazing mezzotint prints.

Dates: 1816-1868

Georgina M. Cooper copybook and poetry scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0095
Abstract

This nineteenth-century copybook and scrapbook was kept by student (and later teacher) Georgina Maria Cooper of Hollandsville, Delaware. It contains pages of copied phrases completed when Cooper was in school, poetry clippings, copied lists of deaths and marriages in Kent County, Delaware, and a list of her students in 1871.

Dates: 1866-1900; Majority of material found within 1866-1871

Page from mid-nineteenth century accounting ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0980
Abstract

One page from mid-nineteenth century accounting ledger, dating in 1850 which mentions John Owen and Philip Watkins.

Dates: 1850 June 27-August 7

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

Jonas Davis account book and diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0006
Abstract

This volume is an account book and diary kept by Jonas Davis, a farmer and resident of Temple, New Hampshire, between 1849 and 1859.

Dates: 1849 January 1-1859 October 8

Deer Park Hotel guest register

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0007
Abstract

This registry book for the Deer Park Hotel in Newark, Delaware, was kept between October 1944 and March 1952, and lists hotel patrons in chronological order, noting their arrival date, name, and room number.

Dates: 1944 October 21-1952 March 25

Samuel R. Delany collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0618
Abstract

The Samuel R. Delany collection includes Delany's letters to publisher Bill Bamberger (Bamberger Books), manuscript drafts of novels in progress, comic books, science fiction anthologies, and journals of fantasy and science fiction to which Delany contributed or served as editor.

Dates: 1967-1999

Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station account books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0021
Abstract

These account books kept by scientist Charles L. Penny record expenses incurred by Delaware College’s Agricultural Experiment Station between 1892 and 1916. The volumes also include information on experiments conducted at the station.

Dates: 1892 July 23-1916 December 9

Austin Dobson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0644
Abstract The Austin Dobson collection comprises approximately six linear feet plus oversize material of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, contracts, royalty statements, artwork, photographs, wills, genealogies, periodicals, clippings, scrapbooks, copper plates, and printed ephemera. The collection documents the work and life of English author and civil servant (Henry) Austin Dobson (1840-1921) and the management of Dobson's estate and literary legacy by his youngest son, Alban Dobson (1885-1962)...
Dates: 1762-1999; Majority of material found within 1861-1962

Samuel M. Donnell account books

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0081
Abstract

The account books of Samuel M. Donnell span the dates 1852 until 1880 and encompass both Donnell's real estate concerns and his farming and household interests in Newark, Delaware.

Dates: 1852-1880; Majority of material found within 1866-1880

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Language
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German 8
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Creator unidentified 10
University of Delaware 5
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 2
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 2
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 2
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Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 2
Carothers, Martha L. 2
Curtis Paper Company 2
Delaware College 2
Ellegood, Joshua A. 2
Field, Edward, 1924- 2
Ford, Charles Henri 2
Ford, Charles Henri--Correspondence 2
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 2
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 2
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 2
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 2
Horn, Charles S. 2
Iowa Center for the Book 2
Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. 2
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court 2
Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 2
Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia 2
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 2
Simpson Paper Company 2
Tober, Frank W., 1919-1995 2
Townsend, Elliot & Townsend 2
Townsend, J. Barton (John Barton), 1865- 2
Townsend, James Price, 1851-1900 2
Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, 1821-1896 2
Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, Jr., 1861- 2
Williams, John J. (John James), 1904-1988 2
Yagoda, Ben 2
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
Adams, Phelps 1
Adamson, Hans 1
Agee, Sally 1
Albertson family 1
Alison, Francis, 1751-1813 1
American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Association of University Women. Delaware Division 1
American Association of University Women. Mill Creek Hundred Branch (Del.) 1
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1
American Home Economics Association 1
American Institute of Graphic Arts 1
American Writing Paper Company 1
Anderson and Finley 1
Anderson, John 1
Andrews, Nelson, Whitehead (Firm) 1
Arnolfini Gallery 1
Ashburnham, Elizabeth, approximately 1774-1868 1
Atwater, Helen W. 1
Bailey, Rebecca 1
Baker and Moss 1
Baker, Alfred Gustavus, 1831-1913 1
Baker, Michael V. 1
Bamberger, Bill 1
Bamberger, Bill--Correspondence 1
Bancroft, Samuel, 1804-1891 1
Barosso Transport (Ship) 1
Batten, James H., 1851-1925 1
Batten, Mahlon, 1819-1888 1
Bawden, Richard 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) 1
Bellow, Saul 1
Belville, Sarah 1
Berlin, Lucia 1
Biggs, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Thomas), 1821-1893 1
Bird & Bull Press 1
Black Sparrow Press 1
Black Stone Press 1
Black, Lester F. 1
Black, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1782-1827 1
Blackburn, Paul 1
Blank, Frederic A., 1890-1992 1
Blind Tom, 1849-1908 1
Bly, Robert 1
Bolger, Dermot, 1959- 1
Booth, James, approximately 1790-1826 1
Bounds, Roland E. 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999--Correspondence 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Bradley family 1
Bradley, John, 1787-1844 1
Brakhage, Stan 1
Brayman, Harold, 1900-1988 1
Brenner, Summer 1
Brewer, William Augustus, 1863-1931 1
Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc. 1
Brilliant, Alan--Correspondence 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
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