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Thurman Adams, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0619
Abstract

Democratic Senator Thurman Adams, Jr., (1928-2009) was the longest-serving senator in the history of the Delaware General Assembly. Adams was also the president of T.G. Adams & Sons, Inc., an agricultural feed and grain business in Bridgeville, Delaware. The Thurman Adams, Jr., papers chronicle the personal and professional life of the longest-serving senator (a Democrat from the 19th District) in the history of the Delaware General Assembly.

Dates: 1939-2012; Majority of material found within 1960-2009

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

Betty Lee Hutchinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0839
Abstract

Betty Lee Hutchinson (1925-2020), a Democrat and Newark City Council member (1977-1980 and 1984-1988) was born November 18, 1925, in Uniontown, PA, to Harry J. Truman, Sr. (1897-1965), and Merle Carte Truman (1901-2001). The Betty Lee Hutchinson papers document the personal interests and civic activities of a woman with ties to Newark, Delaware, and the University of Delaware community.

Dates: 1900-2012; Majority of material found within 1975-2005

Malcolm L. Mackenzie papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0611
Abstract This collection contains materials relating to Malcolm L. Mackenzie's publicity firm Malcolm L. Mackenzie & Associates and Mackenzie's personal involvement with the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, other local cultural institutions, and his interests in general maritime history and historic ships. Materials include publicity materials, written reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, facsimile maps, newsletters, photographs, photograph negatives, slides, and sailing and...
Dates: circa 1926-2007

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

Willard Stewart photographs of Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: GRA 0139
Abstract

Willard Stewart, one of Wilmington, Delaware's, most prominent professional portrait photographers, became the primary photographer for the Delaware Federal Writers' Project and photographed numerous Delaware buildings and landscapes. These photographs document his contributions to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS).

Dates: circa 1936-1938

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Clippings (information artifacts) 4
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Delaware--History--20th century 3
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Invitations 3
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Obituaries 3
Wilmington (Del.)--History--20th century 3
Biographies (documents) 2
Delaware--History--18th century 2
Delaware--History--19th century 2
Historic ships--18th century 2
Historic ships--19th century 2
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Minutes (administrative records) 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
New Castle County (Del.) 2
Newspapers 2
Photograph albums 2
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Political posters 2
Postcards 2
Printed ephemera 2
Realia 2
Scrapbooks 2
Women--Delaware--History--20th century 2
Account books 1
Advertisements 1
African American authors 1
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Agriculture--Delaware--History--21st century 1
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Bethany (W. Va.) 1
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Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
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Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
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Broadsides (notices) 1
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Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 2
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 2
University of Delaware 2
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
American Pilot (Training ship) 1
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Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Bluenose (Ship) 1
Bluenose II (Ship) 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
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Delaware. Supreme Court 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fogel Grip (Ship) 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
HMS Rose (Ship : Replica) 1
Hagley Museum 1
Half Moon (Ship : Replica) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Historic American Buildings Survey 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Hutchinson, Betty Lee 1
Hutchinson, Harry D. 1
James B. Eads (Ship) 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Jones, Russel C. (Russel Cameron) 1
Kalmar Nyckel (Ship : Replica) 1
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation 1
Lady Maryland (Ship: Replica) 1
League of Women Voters of Delaware 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Little Key (Ship) 1
Long, David J. 1
MS Western Sun (Ship) 1
Mackenzie, Malcolm L., 1926-2000 1
Maine Maritime Academy 1
Malcolm L. Mackenzie & Associates 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Minner, Ruth Ann, 1935- 1
Miss Kathy (Ship) 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Mohawk (Ship) 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Newark (Del.). City Council 1
Newark Free Library (Newark, Del.) 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Phillips Academy 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roselle, David P. 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
SS Stones River (Ship) 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Stewart, Willard S., 1915-2003 1
Susan Constant (Ship) 1
Sypherd, Wilbur Owen, 1877-1955 1
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
USF Constellation (Ship) 1
USS Delaware (Ship) 1
United States. Work Projects Administration 1
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