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Donald Callender papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0588
Abstract This collection documents the for-profit and nonprofit work of Donald W. Callender, Jr., an industrial archaeologist whose career in the greater Delaware-Pennsylvania-New Jersey area has involved maintenance and restoration of railroads and rail cars. In addition, Callender was involved in the establishment of a regional living history museum, the leadership of historic preservation organizations, and efforts to restore the Wilmington Waterfront and increase tourism to the city. The...
Dates: 1968-2008; Majority of material found within 1974-1999

Friends of Rockwood records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0675
Abstract The Friends of Rockwood, Inc., supported the maintenance of the site, collections, and educational mission of the Rockwood Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, from 1976 to 2014. The Friends of Rockwood records comprise the organization’s general administrative records; officer and member files; board of directors’ minutes and correspondence; files pertaining to the Friends’ association with New Castle County, Delaware; records relating to properties and capital improvements at Rockwood;...
Dates: 1890-2017; Majority of material found within 1976-2014

Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection

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Identifier: GRA 0098-F0001
Abstract

The Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection comprises 76 bookplates belonging to prominent early twentieth-century Delawareans and regional organizations. Individuals represented include statesmen, businessmen, and members of distinguished families, such as the du Pont and Warner families.

Dates: 1891, circa 1920-1940

Edith Gerselda Lynch autograph book

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Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0172
Abstract

This item is a 1935 autograph book that belonged to Edith Gerselda Lynch, a student in the class of 1937 at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware. The book contains signatures and messages from Lynch's friends, acquaintances, and family, including a signature from Howard High School teacher and librarian Pauline A. Young. The pages provide a glimpse of student life at a Delaware-based African American high school prior to desegregation.

Dates: 1935

Malcolm L. Mackenzie papers

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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

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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

Voices of 1968 oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0858
Abstract Voices of 1968 is an oral history collection focused on Delawareans to capture local stories of that pivotal year in American history. Interviews were conducted by Library staff, partners in the Wilmington Archive Project, and other project volunteers. The topics covered in the interviews include campus politics and student activism in Delaware (particularly through the Students for Democratic Society chapter at the University of Delaware campus), reactions to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s...
Dates: 2018

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Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 2
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 2
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 2
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 2
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 2
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Kalmar Nyckel Foundation 2
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 2
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Bannowsky, Phillip 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bennett, Lewis 1
Bishop's Mill Historic Institute 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, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Bush, Charles W., 1863-1963 1
Callender, Donald W., Jr. 1
Callender, Donald W., Jr.--Archives 1
Carey, Claire LaMar 1
Carey, Harmon R. 1
Chapman, Charles Shepard, 1879-1962 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Codor, Dick 1
Conrad, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1852- 1
Delaware National Guard 1
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fogel Grip (Ship) 1
Four States Railway Services 1
Friends of Rockwood Inc. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Gaplerin, Richard 1
Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau 1
HMS Rose (Ship : Replica) 1
Half Moon (Ship : Replica) 1
Historic American Buildings Survey 1
Historic Red Clay Valley, Inc. (Del.) 1
Historical Society of Delaware 1
Hoffecker, Carol E. 1
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 1
James B. Eads (Ship) 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Kalmar Nyckel (Ship : Replica) 1
Kalmar Nyckel (Ship : Replica)--Design and construction--20th century 1
Lady Maryland (Ship: Replica) 1
Leech, Steven, 1943- 1
Little Key (Ship) 1
Lynch, Edith Gerselda 1
MS Western Sun (Ship) 1
Mackenzie, Malcolm L., 1926-2000 1
Maine Maritime Academy 1
Malcolm L. Mackenzie & Associates 1
Maxwell, Gee Tee 1
Miss Kathy (Ship) 1
Mohawk (Ship) 1
Mullen, Shaun D., 1947- 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
Perkins, Clinton 1
Phillips Academy 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Railway Management Services 1
Rockwood Museum (New Castle County, Del.) 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rogers, E. Poppa, Sr. 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
SS Stones River (Ship) 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Sharkey, Stuart 1
Stewart, Willard S., 1915-2003 1
Street, Jea P., Sr. 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Susan Constant (Ship) 1
Tahira 1
Tallman, Frank G. (Frank Gifford), 1860-1938 1
Tammi, Leo 1
USF Constellation (Ship) 1
USS Delaware (Ship) 1
United States. Work Projects Administration 1
University of Delaware 1
Vasa (Warship) 1
Vincent, Gilbert Tapley, 1946- 1
Visitor's Council of Delaware County 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wiggins, Kennard R. 1
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