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Armistead W. Browning, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0635
Abstract

Born in 1938, Armistead Willis Browning, Jr., was a landscape architect, environmentalist and teacher who dedicated his life to environmental preservation and education. The papers chronicle Browning's experience at three architectural firms, two main centers of education, and with numerous independent projects, symposia, and workshops.

Dates: 1923-1990; Majority of material found within 1971-1987

Charles Green mathematical notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0099
Abstract

Charles Green of Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, created these notebooks of mathematical rules and exercises around 1840-1841 to aid his study of practical geometry.

Dates: approximately 1840-1841

Edith A. Lowther meeting notes for Presbyterian Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Societies

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0176
Abstract

This notebook from Edith A. Lowther (1874-1948) contains her meeting notes for the Presbyterian Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Societies circa 1895. Although Lowther lived in Henry Clay, Delaware, most of her notes relate to a meeting held at Manokin Presbyterian Church in Princess Anne, Maryland.

Dates: approximately 1890-1895

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

Samuel M. Talley trigonometry notebook and account book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0112
Abstract

This trigonometry and surveying notebook belonged to Samuel M. Talley, who lived in Brandywine Hundred, near Wilmington, Delaware, in the nineteenth century. The notebook features mathematical problems and solutions related to the principles of trigonometry and the surveying of land. The latter part of the volume contains an account book listing wages due for farm labor.

Dates: 1833-1863; Majority of material found within 1833-1834

Thatcher family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0155
Abstract

Small group of miscellaneous papers relating to several generations of the Thatcher family of Wilmington, Delaware. Papers include correspondence, military documents, photographs, notebooks, legal documents, and miscellaneous material.

Dates: 1870-1941

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