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George S. Messersmith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0109
Abstract

Diplomatic and professional papers of George S. Messersmith (1883-1960). Consists of correspondence, memoranda, and official dispatches written during Messersmith's tenure with the U.S. Department of State, as well as during his subsequent business career. The extensive typescript of an unpublished memoir is also present. The papers include extensive discussions of political and economic matters regarding Europe during the 1930s and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dates: 1907-1955

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

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African American authors 1
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Argentina--Economic conditions 1
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Names
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
Avila Camacho, Manuel, 1897-1955 1
Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio, 1901-1973 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Berger Waldenegg, Egon, 1880-1960 1
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Braden, Spruille, 1894-1978 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
Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972 1
Carr, Wilbur J. (Wilbur John), 1870-1942 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cortina, José Manuel 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dunn, James C. (James Clement), 1890-1979 1
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fodor, M. W. (Marcel William), 1890-1977 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Geist, Raymond Herman, 1885-1955 1
Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945 1
Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Heineman, Dannie N., 1872-1962 1
Heineman, James H. 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960 1
Moffat, Jay Pierrepont, 1896-1943 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
Padilla, Ezequiel, 1890-1971 1
Papen, Franz von, 1879-1969 1
Phillips, William, 1878-1968 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley, 1877-1970 1
Schuschnigg, Kurt, 1897-1977 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sozialistische Partei Österreichs 1
Starhemberg, Ernst Rüdiger, Fürst von, 1899-1956 1
Stettinius, Edward Reilly, 1865-1925 1
United States. Department of State 1
Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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