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Littell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0449
Abstract

The Littell family papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books, artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania and Delaware from circa 1808 to 2004.

Dates: 1808-2005

New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0260
Abstract

The New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, records document the history, organization, and activities of this women's club, which began in 1893 as a reading club, but quickly developed into an organization dedicated to promoting civic responsibility and social service in the Newark community.

Dates: 1893-2011

G. Burton Pearson, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0432
Abstract

Personal correspondence, papers, and photographs from Delaware lawyer, judge, and banker George Burton Pearson, Jr., as well as papers from relatives in the Pearson, Cochran, Warren, and Hardcastle families.

Dates: 1840-1999; Majority of material found within 1880-1950

Henry Clay Reed papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0499
Abstract

Henry Clay Reed, 1899-1972, was a renound Delaware historian and history professor at the University of Delaware for forty years, researching, teaching, writing, and editing numerous articles and books.

The Henry Clay Reed papers, spanning the dates from 1915-1974, contains legal documents, photographs, microfilm, correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera from the historian and University of Delaware professor.

Dates: 1833-1979; Majority of material found within 1915-1972

Willard Saulsbury, Jr., papers

 Collection — Box: Duplicates
Identifier: MSS 0331
Abstract Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (1861-1927), was a prominent Delaware lawyer and a member of a a leading Delaware political family, serving in the United States Senate from 1913-1919 as as President Pro Tempore of the Senate from 1916 to 1919. The bulk of the Willard Saulsbury, Jr., papers belong to Saulsbury himself, dating from 1908-1926 when Saulsbury was at his political and business peak. The collection, consisting of papers, photographs, maps, and political realia, also includes papers and...
Dates: 1716-1930; Majority of material found within 1908-1926

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

Wilson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0303
Abstract

The papers of the Wilson family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Newark, Delaware, consist of 1.35 linear feet of material relating to four generations of direct descendents of Edward Wilson, Esq., of Elm’s Farm, near Liverpool, England.

Dates: 1684-1954; Majority of material found within 1830-1897

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Bayley, Solomon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
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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
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cochran family 1
Delaware State Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Democratic Party (Del.) 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Episcopal Church 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
General Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Hardcastle family 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1
Harrington, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1928 1
Harrington, Mary Lofland,1813-1871 1
Harrington, Purnell Frederick, 1844-1937 1
Harrington, Richard, 1772-1821 1
Harrington, Richard, 1847-1884 1
Harrington, Samuel M. (Samuel Maxwell), 1803-1865 1
Harrington, Samuel Milby, 1840-1878 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Littell Families of America 1
Littell family 1
Littell, Charles Willing, 1832-1895 1
Littell, Eliakim, 1797-1870 1
Littell, Elton Gardiner, 1877-1962 1
Littell, Estelle Sherman, 1889-1978 1
Littell, Gertrude (Gretchen), 1905-2003 1
Littell, Gertrude Wilson, -1919 1
Littell, Harriet Hare, 1835-1885 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia Harrington, -1924 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia, 1880-1934 1
Littell, Helen, 1914- 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1806-1875 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1870- 1
Littell, Margaret, 1903-1990 1
Littell, Mary Morris, 1884-1984 1
Littell, Samuel Harrington, 1873-1967 1
Littell, T. Gardiner, 1837-1911 1
Littell, Thomas Gardiner, 1902-1929 1
Littell, Walter Wilson, 1910-1995 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1775-1865 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Morris, Susan Sophia, 1800-1868 1
Morse family 1
New Century Club of Newark, Delaware 1
Pearson family 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Princeton University 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Saulsbury, Eli, 1817-1893 1
Saulsbury, May du Pont, 1854-1927 1
Saulsbury, Willard, 1820-1892 1
Saulsbury, Willard, 1861-1927 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Shippen family 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
University of Delaware 1
Warren family 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wilson, Jeanie Morse, 1851-1921 1
Wilson, Margaret, 1881-1953 1
Winslow, Jeanie Morse Littell, 1918- 1
Winslow, Julian D., 1914-2005 1
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