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Clara Agnes Boulter mid-nineteenth century scrapbook from the American South

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Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0033
Abstract This antebellum and mid-nineteenth century scrapbook from the American South bears the name Clara Agnes Boulter on the inside front endpaper. The contents of this book are largely centered on ladies' manners, etiquette, advice, short stories, and fashion for women, though a significant component includes references to Confederate generals and Southern sympathies. Several items suggest the creator had ties to Texas and Virginia, and new clippings from Southern papers in Knoxville, Louisville,...
Dates: approximately 1843-1869
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Ella Harris nineteenth-century American scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0030
Abstract

This nineteenth-century American children's scrapbook bears the inscription "To Ella, Much Love from Edith and Edna." The scrapbook features trade cards; Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, and New Year's greeting cards; collectible scraps of flowers, animals, and children; one silk program for "Nunnemacher's Grand Opera" featuring a performance of Martha by the Milwaukee Philharmonic Society.

Dates: approximately 1875-1895
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0680
Abstract

The Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers comprises 14.3 linear feet of materials, spanning the dates between 1900 and 2011, and includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, travel brochures, reel-to-reel tapes, magazines, fanzines, and other materials documenting intergenerational American family life in Delaware.

Dates: circa 1900-2011
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Louis Untermeyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0111
Abstract

The Louis Untermeyer papers consist of five linear feet of manuscript material abandoned by Untermeyer when he sold his Adirondack home, Stony Water, around 1970. Dating from 1902 through 1972, with the bulk of the papers dating 1912–1935, the collection is composed of correspondence, proofs, lists, scrapbooks, notes, photographs, programs, announcements, lectures, anthologies, poems, reviews, essays, and a bookplate.

Dates: 1902-1972; Majority of material found within 1912-1935
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Photographs 3
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Notes 2
Poems 2
Scrapbooks--United States--History--19th century 2
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Theater programs 2
1/4 inch audio tape 1
Activists 1
American poetry--20th century 1
Announcements 1
Anthologies 1
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence 1
Authors, English--20th century--Correspondence 1
Bookplates 1
Christmas cards 1
Civil rights--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Confederate States of America 1
Correspondence 1
Diplomas 1
Disc jockey radio programs 1
Disc jockeys 1
Easter cards 1
Editors (assembling, revising) 1
Editors--United States--20th century 1
Fanzines 1
Greeting cards 1
Jazz audiences--United States 1
Jazz radio programs 1
Jazz--1921-1930--Analysis, appreciation 1
Jazz--1931-1940 1
Juvenilia (object genre) 1
Lectures 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Lists (document genres) 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Newark (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Obituaries 1
Paper dolls 1
Phonograph records 1
Poets 1
Poets, American--20th century 1
Printed ephemera 1
Programs (documents) 1
Proofs (printed matter) 1
Radio programs--United States--History--20th century 1
Reviews (document genre) 1
School integration--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Secretaries (clerical workers) 1
Souvenir programs 1
Students--Civil rights--United States 1
Suburban life--United States--History--20th century 1
Tape reels 1
Tintypes (prints) 1
Trade cards (advertising) 1
Travel guidebooks 1
Travel--Guidebooks 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Valentines 1
Women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century 1
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Names
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Boulter, Clara Agnes, active 1843-1869 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 1
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Burgess, Paul 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Harris, Ella, active 1875-1895 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
Newark High School (Del.) 1
Owens family 1
Owens, Anna Hayes 1
Owens, Frank E. (Frank Erskine), 1918-2012 1
Owens, Jonathan Andrew 1
Powell, Rudy, 1907-1976 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
University of Delaware 1
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 1
WDEL-FM (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
WSTW (Radio station : Wilmington, Del.) 1
White Sewing Machine Company 1
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