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Thomas F. Jones, Sr., papers regarding the Civilian Conservation Corps and Pearl Harbor

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0651
Abstract

This collection consists of photograph albums, training manuals, documents, and artifacts related to Thomas F. Jones, Sr.'s service in the Civilian Conservation Corps and later as a solider in the United States Army Coast Artillery stationed in Hawaii during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Dates: 1937-1946

Pierce family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0293
Abstract

The Pierce family papers comprise materials relating to the Pierce family of New Castle, Delaware, from the early nineteenth century to the middle twentieth century. Most of the forty-eight items date from the American Civil War and provide a personal description of military life.

Dates: 1833-1954; Majority of material found within 1862-1864

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

Frank W. Tober papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0602
Abstract

The Frank W. Tober papers comprise letters, postcards, photographs, pamphlets, magazines, newspaper clippings, newsletters, printing ephemera, invoices, notebooks, woodblocks, prints, coins, sculpture, and other realia. A major portion of the papers relate to Tober's collections and collecting activities. Tober was a chemical engineer with a substantial personal interest in the study of rare books, printing, Napoleon and the French Revolution, and, in particular, literary forgery.

Dates: 1791-1995; Majority of material found within 1945-1995

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Photographs 3
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Black-and-white photographs 2
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Wills 2
Account books 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
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Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
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Artillery, Coast--United States--History--20th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Baynesville (Va.) 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Book collectors--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
Brochures 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
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Death certificates 1
Deeds 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
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Ephemera (general) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
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Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799 1
Freehand drawings (drawings) 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Insignias 1
Invitations 1
Invoices 1
Laborers 1
Land surveys 1
Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
Later prints 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Lithographic engravings (prints) 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
Maps (documents) 1
Medals 1
Memorandums 1
Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
Military records 1
Millers (people) 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1
Motion picture film 1
Music rolls 1
Negatives (photographic) 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--18th century 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
German 1
 
Names
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
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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, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fleck, Robert D., 1947- 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Jones, Thomas F., Sr. 1
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 1
Oak Knoll Books (Firm) 1
Pierce family 1
Pierce family--Correspondence 1
Pierce, Elias 1
Pierce, Elias--Correspondence 1
Pierce, Enos 1
Pierce, Enos--Correspondence 1
Pierce, Ezra 1
Pierce, Ezra--Correspondence 1
Pierce, George 1
Pierce, George--Correspondence 1
Pierce, Marey 1
Pierce, Marey--Correspondence 1
Pierce, William 1
Pierce, William--Correspondence 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pucca Press 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Tober, Ellen Brady 1
Tober, Frank W., 1919-1995 1
United States. Army. Coast Artillery, 15th 1
United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 97th (1861-1865) 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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