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Delaware Miscellany collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0598
Abstract

The Delaware Miscellany collection includes three large, green buckram-bound volumes compiled by William Ditto Lewis, which contain various documents pertaining to the history of Delaware and the surrounding region, and the University of Delaware.

Dates: 1825-1958; Majority of material found within 1920-1958

Robert C. Fraim poetical writings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0435
Abstract

Delaware educator and attorney Robert C. Fraim collected the poetry and articles he wrote for Philadelphia and Wilmington newspapers in this volume. The papers also include a history of the Fraim family, estate inventory, and other clippings.

Dates: 1873-1901

Michael Bartholomew Mahony memorandum book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0167
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of a memorandum book kept by Philadelphia merchant Michael Bartholomew Mahony between 1879 and 1883. Mahony recorded observations on the weather, local and international news, household activity, financial transactions, and the deaths of friends, family members, and acquaintances. The collection also contains two photographs and a number of loose receipts, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of paper ephemera.

Dates: 1879-1883

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

Peter Owen publishing records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0571
Abstract

Peter Owen publishing records is the publisher’s archive (1950s-1995) of an independent British firm renowned for its international list of major authors and avant garde works. The bulk of the collection consists of the production files of selected works, primarily from the 1980s and 1990s, including edited typescripts, proofs, and other materials documenting the process of turning an author’s manuscript into a finished book.

Dates: 1951-1995

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

Marion H. Steele papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0439
Abstract

The papers of Marion H. Steele, former managing editor of the Journal of Home Economics and University of Delaware graduate.

Dates: 1906-1999; Majority of material found within 1923-1985

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Memorandums 4
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Delaware--History--18th century 2
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Essays 2
Estate inventories 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
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Newark (Del.)--History--20th century 2
Pamphlets 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Postcards 2
Press releases 2
Steamboats--History--19th century 2
Tintypes (prints) 2
VHS 2
1/4 inch audio tape 1
Account books 1
Activists 1
African American authors 1
Agreements 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
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Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
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Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
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Home Economics--United States--20th century 1
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Jazz audiences--United States 1
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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 2
American Home Economics Association 1
Atwater, Helen W. 1
Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
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Bernard, Oliver 1
Bode, Charles Gustav, 1901- 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--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, 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
Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
Burgess, Paul 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 1
Crosland, Margaret, 1920- 1
Cumming, Anne 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 1
Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 1
Faldbakken, Knut 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Farr, Evelyn 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fischer, Wolfgang Georg, 1933- 1
Fraim, Robert C. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Gibson, H. B. (Hamilton Bertie) 1
Glass, N. M. (Norman M.), 1894-1976 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Hagley Museum 1
Halegua, Lillian 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hargreaves, Gloria 1
Haylock, John 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Herbert, David 1
Home, Stewart, 1962- 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Inoue, Yasushi, 1907-1991 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Kihlman, Christer, 1930- 1
Le Vay, David 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Long, David J. 1
Lympany, Moura, 1916-2005 1
Mahony, Charles Alfred, 1836-1901 1
Mahony, Michael Bartholomew, 1799-1883 1
Maraini, Dacia 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Minco, Marga 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Moorepark, Howard 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Murch, A. E. (Alma Elizabeth) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
Newark High School (Del.) 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Owens family 1
Owens, Anna Hayes 1
Owens, Frank E. (Frank Erskine), 1918-2012 1
Owens, Jonathan Andrew 1
Parland, Oscar, 1912-1997 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Peter Owen (Firm) 1
Piaf, Edith, 1915-1963 1
Pitt-Kethley, Fiona, 1954- 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Powell, Rudy, 1907-1976 1
Pulsifer, Gary 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Reed, Jeremy 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rootes, Nina 1
Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
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