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Archaeological Society of Delaware records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0578
Abstract

This collection contains the administrative and organizational records for the incorporated educational group, the Archaeological Society of Delaware. The materials span the length of the organization's existence from 1933 to the present.

Dates: 1933-2011

Delaware Folklore Society audio recordings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0695
Abstract

These audiotape recordings by members of the Delaware Folklore society feature folk tales, narratives, songs, sermons, and discussions of folklore. The recordings provide a glimpse into the work of an organization dedicated to preserving and studying the folk heritage of Delaware.

Dates: 1950-1955

Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers

 Collection
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

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

Robert H. Richards, Jr., Delaware oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0179
Abstract

The Delaware Oral History collection was a project of the University of Delaware History Department, directed by Dr. John Munroe and funded by Robert H. Richards, Jr.. Interviews with 317 Delawareans conducted between 1966 and 1978 cover topics including the following: educators, immigrants, journalism, politics, and the University of Delaware, Delaware in the Depression, and the 1950s relocation of Long Island and New Jersey potato farmers to Delaware.

Dates: 1955-1981, 2012, 2020; Majority of material found within 1966-1978

University of Delaware audio recordings of poetry readings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0696
Abstract This collection features audiotape recordings of poetry readings and performances by American poets and University of Delaware professors. The collection contains poetry readings dating from 1953 to 1960 by Robert Hillyer, an influential poet and professor at the University of Delaware. There are also recordings of poetry readings, some broadcast by Delaware radio stations, by Wilbur Owen Sypherd, professor and administrator at the University of Delaware. The collection also features a...
Dates: circa 1953-1964

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Affirmative action programs--Delaware 1
African American churches--Delaware 1
African American civil rights workers 1
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African Americans--Delaware--20th century--Interviews 1
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African Americans--Education--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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Archaeology--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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University of Delaware 4
Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 2
Munroe, John A. (John Andrew), 1914-2006 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 2
Weslager, C. A. (Clinton Alfred), 1909-1994 2
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Archaeological Society of Delaware 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 1
Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1
Burgess, Paul 1
Button, Rebecca 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Crozier, Archibald 1
De Valinger, Leon, 1905-2000 1
Dean, Nora Thompson 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
Delaware Folklore Society 1
Delaware Humanities Forum 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Fierro, Francis J. 1
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
Gibbons, Dolores 1
Governor Bacon Health Center 1
Higgins, Anthony, 1905-1986 1
Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961 1
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Jones, Louis C. (Louis Clark), 1908-1990 1
Lazarus, Myron 1
Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 1
Mitchell, Jane E. (Jane Evelyn), 1921-2004 1
Mitchell, Littleton P. (Littleton Purnell), 1918-2009 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
Newark High School (Del.) 1
Omwake, H. Geiger 1
Owens family 1
Owens, Anna Hayes 1
Owens, Frank E. (Frank Erskine), 1918-2012 1
Owens, Jonathan Andrew 1
Powell, Rudy, 1907-1976 1
Pratt, Herbert T. 1
Progressive Club of Delaware 1
Rains, Claude, 1889-1967 1
Redding, Louis L. 1
Richards, Robert H., Jr. 1
Sawyer, Mary C. 1
Schoenherr, Steven 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
Thomas, Ronald A. 1
Tingle, Nathaniel, active 1950 1
Turochy, Angela 1
Turochy, Francis 1
Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Air Corps 1
University of Delaware. Department of History 1
University of Delaware. Foreign Study Section 1
Vapaa, George K. 1
Volkman, Arthur G. 1
WDEL-FM (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
WSTW (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
West Chester University of Pennsylvania 1
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