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Thurman Adams, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0619
Abstract

Democratic Senator Thurman Adams, Jr., (1928-2009) was the longest-serving senator in the history of the Delaware General Assembly. Adams was also the president of T.G. Adams & Sons, Inc., an agricultural feed and grain business in Bridgeville, Delaware. The Thurman Adams, Jr., papers chronicle the personal and professional life of the longest-serving senator (a Democrat from the 19th District) in the history of the Delaware General Assembly.

Dates: 1939-2012; Majority of material found within 1960-2009

Karl Wolfgang Böer papers supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0632
Abstract

The Karl Wolfgang Böer papers supplement contains the publications, scientific notes, and other papers documenting the professional activities of Karl Wolfgang Böer, a preeminent physicist who pioneered the development of solar energy.

Dates: 1953-2009

Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0583
Abstract The Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers contains twenty-six three-ring notebooks and nine folders of genealogical research notes, family photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century generations of Boyce's family lines from Delaware and Virginia. Boyce's research includes the Boyce, Justis, Morrow, Shreve, Wright, Brownley, Lawrence, Sebree, Adams, and Tuley families, as well as the family lines of his wife, Doris Jolls...
Dates: 1792-1999; Majority of material found within 1850s-1980s

Senator J. Allen Frear, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0315
Abstract J. Allen Frear, Jr. (1903-1993) was a politician from Dover, Delaware (Kent County). A member of the Democratic Party, Frear served two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. The Senator J. Allen Frear, Jr. papers are primarily those of his congressional career, when he represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1949 to 1960, though the collection also includes personal material from pre- and post-Congressional periods. The collection dates from 1917 to 1963, with bulk of the material dating...
Dates: 1917-1963; Majority of material found within 1949-1961

Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers

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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

Newark Publishing Co. records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0879
Abstract Newark Publishing Co. was a Newark, Delaware, printing business established in the mid-20th century and was owned and operated by William H. Durham from circa 1967 to 1981. Newark Publishing Co. records comprises over 3000 job printing files created by the press for largely Newark, Delaware-based businesses between 1963 and 1981. The collection also includes administrative and financial records of the company and its precursor, the Newark Post weekly newspaper,...
Dates: 1936-1981; Majority of material found within 1971-1981

Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0680
Abstract

The Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers comprises 14.3 linear feet of materials, spanning the dates between 1900 and 2011, and includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, travel brochures, reel-to-reel tapes, magazines, fanzines, and other materials documenting intergenerational American family life in Delaware.

Dates: circa 1900-2011

George Wolkind papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0697
Abstract

The George Wolkind papers document the involvement of native Delaware activist George Wolkind (born 1945) in the Newark and Wilmington, Delaware, counterculture and music scenes in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1966-2011

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Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 2
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Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
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Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Curtis Paper Company 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
Delaware Humanities Forum 1
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Du Pont, Pierre S. 1
DuMar Printing Co. 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 1
Durham, William H., 1905-1981 1
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Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 1
Frear, J. Allen, Jr. 1
General Foods Corporation 1
Governor Bacon Health Center 1
Harlan C. Williams Co. 1
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 1
International Solar Energy Society 1
Minner, Ruth Ann, 1935- 1
Minuteman Press (Newark, Del.) 1
Mitchell, Jane E. (Jane Evelyn), 1921-2004 1
Mitchell, Littleton P. (Littleton Purnell), 1918-2009 1
NVF Company 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
Newark Country Club (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark High School (Del.) 1
Newark Publishing Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark United Methodist Church (Newark, Del.) 1
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Owens, Anna Hayes 1
Owens, Frank E. (Frank Erskine), 1918-2012 1
Owens, Jonathan Andrew 1
Porter Motor Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Powell, Rudy, 1907-1976 1
Progressive Club of Delaware 1
Redding, Louis L. 1
Shamrock Printing Co. 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Air Corps 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency 1
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance 1
University of Delaware. Institute of Energy Conversion 1
W.L. Gore and Associates 1
WDEL-FM (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
WNRK radio (Newark, Del.) 1
WSTW (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
Ware, Richard T. 1
West Chester University of Pennsylvania 1
Wolkind, George 1
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