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Biddle family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0327
Abstract

The Biddle family papers preserve over one-hundred-and-fifty years of material related to this prominent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania family and detail extensively their professional lineage as attorneys, notary publics, and bankers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1766-1943; Majority of material found within 1870-1923
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

John Wood Hall shipping papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0116
Abstract

John Wood Hall (1817-1892) was a merchant shipowner and Governor of Delaware. The Hall papers contain approximately five hundred records from John W. Hall's merchant and shipping businesses.

Dates: 1860-1889
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

George Handy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0133
Abstract The George Handy Papers, 1845-1871 (bulk 1846-1850), comprises 273 letters and business documents from a prominent Philadelphia-based nineteenth-century merchant. The collection, as a whole, reflects social and personal relations with Handy family members in Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Mississippi, as well as other friends; and business and economic affairs of domestic and foreign commerce, much of which was conducted by shipping through the ports of Philadelphia and New Orleans, or via...
Dates: 1841-1871; Majority of material found within 1846-1850
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Maulsby family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0160
Abstract

The Maulsby family papers include the business, legal and personal correspondence and other papers of businessman Samuel Maulsby (1792-1838)and his coal and lumber business. Papers relate to his coal and lumber business in general and more specifically to Thomas and Maulsby and Maulsby and Moore Lumber Companies.

Dates: 1791-1839
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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