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Delaware. Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, "Forward Women from Delaware's Past"

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0203
Abstract

Script, audio cassette and 132 black-and-white and color slides containing the audio/visual presentation, "Forward Women from Delaware's Past," created by Delaware's Governor's Commission on the Status of Women.

Dates: 1979

Delaware Women's Conference records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0677
Abstract

The Delaware Women's Conference records, which document the only all-volunteer women's conference in the United States, provide a record of an organization which sought to empower women of all ages, economic backgrounds, and lifestyles, to engage and to improve the status of all women.

Dates: 1984-2010

Clarice U. Heckert papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0841
Abstract

Clarice U. Heckert (1911-2005), a Republican and community activist, served as representative to the Delaware General Assembly in the 11th (1965-1968) and the 9th districts (1969-1974), in the Wilmington area, between 1964 and 1974.The Clarice U. Heckert papers document the decade-long political career of a northern Delaware woman in the Delaware General Assembly during the mid-twentieth century.

Dates: 1960-1984; Majority of material found within 1966-1972

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

Chris Oakley collection of alternative press

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0471
Abstract

Chris Oakley was a longtime resident of Newark, Delaware, a community organizer and a strong advocate for media democracy. The Chris Oakley collection of alternative press consists of alternative press newspapers, community newsletters, magazines and ephemera related to from local to international communities, women's activism and local writers, as well as some personal papers.

Dates: 1968-1992

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

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Correspondence 3
Black-and-white photographs 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Delaware--History--20th century 2
Delaware--Politics and government--1951- 2
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Ephemera (general) 2
Financial records 2
Invitations 2
Magazines (periodicals) 2
Maps (documents) 2
Minutes (administrative records) 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
New Castle County (Del.) 2
Newspapers 2
Obituaries 2
Photographs 2
Postcards 2
Printed ephemera 2
VHS 2
Women--Delaware--History--19th century 2
Women--Delaware--History--21st century 2
A Directory of the Liberated Church of America 1
Account books 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Articles of incorporation 1
Artifacts (object genre) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Audio cassette 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Barbados 1
Bethany (W. Va.) 1
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Birthday cards 1
Black-and-white slides 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brooksider Newsletter 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Bylaws (administrative records) 1
Cabinet photographs 1
California--Description and travel 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Certificates 1
Children 1
Christmas cards 1
Citizen's voice (Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C. 1
Civil Liberties 1
Coalition for Nuclear Power Postponement Newsletter 1
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Color photographs 1
Color slides 1
Commonplace books 1
Community activists 1
Community: Philadelphia's Progressive Paper 1
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Cuba for Beginners 1
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Dance cards 1
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Deeds 1
Delaware Alternative Press 1
Delaware Independent Advertiser 1
Delaware Valley Star 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--21st century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
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Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Direct Action for a Nonviolent World 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Dreamstreets 1
Education--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Emergency Illustrated 1
England--Description and travel 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
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German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Italian 1
 
Names
Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
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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
Cannon, Annie Jump, 1863-1941 1
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Chaiken, Yetta 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Delaware Women's Conference, Inc. 1
Delaware. Governor's Commission on the Status of Women. 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dreamstreets Press 1
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferraro, Geraldine 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Friedan, Betty 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Ginns, Sallie Topkis 1
Handy, Margaret 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 1
Heckert, Clarice U. 1
Hilles, Florence Bayard, 1866-1954 1
Hoffecker, Carol E. 1
Hutchinson, Betty Lee 1
Hutchinson, Harry D. 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
Jong, Erica 1
Junior League of Wilmington, Delaware 1
Kruse, Edwina B. 1
League of Women Voters of Delaware 1
McCabe, Mae Hall 1
Mitchell, Andrea 1
Moreno, Rita 1
Newark (Del.). City Council 1
Newark Free Library (Newark, Del.) 1
Oakley, Chris 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Ridgely, Mabel Lloyd 1
Robinson, Hannah 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roselle, David P. 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sacher, Peggy 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shange, Ntozake 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Steele, Cecile 1
Steinem, Gloria 1
Topkis, Rosa 1
University of Delaware 1
University of Michigan 1
University of Pittsburgh 1
Vernon, Mabel 1
Viorst, Judith 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Young Women's Christian Association (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Young, Pauline A., 1900-1991 1
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