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Alan Brilliant correspondence with Ted Wilentz

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0590
Abstract

This collection contains .7 linear feet of personal letters and postcards from Alan Brilliant of Unicorn Press to his former employer and longtime friend, proprietor of Corinth Books Ted Wilentz. Other materials include press catalogs, newsletters, financial records, clippings, periodicals, poems, and other printed ephemera related to the Unicorn Press.

Dates: 1960-1996; Majority of material found within 1986-1988

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0431
Abstract

The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger’s trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

Dates: 1909

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

Sombre Reptiles Press records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0560
Abstract

The Berkeley, California-based Sombre Reptiles Press was founded in 1978 by poet Jerry Ratch and artist Mary Ann Hayden. This small collection consists of approximately one linear foot of material related to the operation of the press and the publication of its works, spanning the dates 1977 and 1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1977 to 1982.

Dates: 1977-1994; Majority of material found within 1978-1982

The Press of A. Colish archives

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0358
Abstract

The Press of A. Colish archives contains materials relating to the printing career of American fine printer and publisher Abraham Colish (1882–1963).

Dates: 1913–1990; Majority of material found within 1930s–1950s

Townsend family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0445
Abstract

The Townsend family (of Delaware) papers consists of letters, accounts, and other business records, spanning the years 1809-1920, with the majority of the material falling between 1834 and 1894. The collection mainly consists of business letters sent to Samuel and John Townsend, political and personal letters sent to Samuel Townsend, and family correspondence, including twenty letters written by Edmund Townsend during the Civil War.

Dates: 1809-1920; Majority of material found within 1833-1894

Waples family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0402
Abstract

The Waples Family Papers, spanning the dates 1753-1864, outline the family’s role in the economic development of Milton in Broadkill Hundred, Delaware. But the bulk of the collection, 1851-1864, focuses on Gideon B. Waples, beginning with the pre-Civil War period when he was a student at Delaware College. After he voluntarily left his studies, he became a farmer and businessman in southern Delaware; he also served as a political aide to two governors of Delaware during the Civil War.

Dates: 1753-1864; Majority of material found within 1851-1864

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Clippings (information artifacts) 6
Correspondence 5
Financial records 4
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Delaware--History--19th century 3
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Galley proofs 3
Advertisements 2
Delaware--History--18th century 2
Delaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Delaware--Politics and government--19th century 2
Invitations 2
Land surveys 2
Maps (documents) 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Pamphlets 2
Photographs 2
Postcards 2
Scrapbooks 2
Speeches (documents) 2
Wills 2
Account books 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Announcements 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Artists (visual artists) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Authors 1
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Bills of sale 1
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Black-and-white photographs 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
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Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
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Collages (visual works) 1
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Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Cruise ships--History--20th century 1
Customs records 1
Cut-paper work 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Delaware--Social life and customs--19th century 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Drafts (documents) 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Dummies (printed matter) 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Etchings (prints) 1
Fairs 1
Farmers (people in agriculture) 1
Free papers 1
Fruit trade--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Graphic design (Typography)--United States--History--20th century 1
Greensboro (N.C.)--Description and travel 1
Handbills 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Indentures 1
Invoices 1
Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
Later prints 1
Layouts (printer matter) 1
Leases 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Legal documents 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
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Lumber trade--Delaware--History--19th century 1
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Cherokee 1
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Names
A. Colish (Firm) 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Brilliant, Alan 1
Brilliant, Alan--Correspondence 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
Carey family 1
Carey, Clara Waples, 1857-1894 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Colish, Abraham, 1882-1963 1
Cushman, Don 1
Delaware College--Students 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Estrin, Jerry 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
Gray, Darrell, 1945- 1
Grolier Club 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hayden, Mary Ann 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnston, Alastair, 1950- 1
Nixon-Nirdlinger, Fred G. (Frederick G.), 1877-1931 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Ratch, Jerry 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Savory, Teo 1
Savory, Teo--Correspondence 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sombre Reptiles (Firm) 1
Unicorn Press 1
Waples family 1
Waples, Gideon B., active 1832-1864 1
Waples, Gideon, 1800-1837 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilentz, Ted 1
Wilentz, Ted--Correspondence 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wolfe, Michael, 1945- 1
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