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Elizabeth Coatsworth papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0437
Abstract

Family papers relating to the poet and children’s author Elizabeth Coatsworth, including letters to Coatsworth from the English poet and novelist L.A.G. Strong and from the American author Josephine Pinckney, as well as letters to Coatsworth’s husband, the writer Henry Beston.

Dates: 1902-1948

Franklin C. and Joanne Currier Daiber papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0715
Abstract

Professor Emeritus of marine studies Franklin C. Daiber (1919-2003) and his wife Joanne Currier Daiber (1927-2007) were two of the first marine scientists hired by the University of Delaware in the 1950s. The Franklin C. and Joanne Currier Daiber papers include correspondence, photographs, negatives, artwork, and publications documenting their personal relationships and professional research and scholarship as marine scientists at the University of Delaware in the mid-twentieth century.

Dates: 1939-2001; Majority of material found within 1940-1995

Eclectic nineteenth-century British scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0029
Abstract This eclectically compiled nineteenth-century British scrapbook features collectible scraps of flowers, animals, children, birds, and work scenes; greeting cards; original ink, graphite, and watercolor artwork; material related to British royalty; scenes of famous British places and buildings; and numerous images from varied sources. Several items depict "exotic ethnics," such as a black woman, an "Indian," "Orientals," and "Arabs." Not all of the 36...
Dates: approximately 1865-1890

Abbie Huston Evans papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0158
Abstract

The papers consist of a greeting card, a Delaware poetry day dinner program, two poems, "Alive This Night" and "Martian Landscape" (initialed and dated), and newspaper clippings related to Abbie Huston Evans, a poet, born in New England, who later worked and taught in Philadelphia.

Dates: 1960-1968

Lillian Ann Gibbins, The Girl Graduate : Her Own Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0063
Abstract

This gift book was used as a scrapbook by Lillian Ann Gibbins to commemorate her graduation from St. Elizabeth Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1926.

Dates: approximately 1924-1929

Littell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0449
Abstract

The Littell family papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books, artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania and Delaware from circa 1808 to 2004.

Dates: 1808-2005

Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0629
Abstract The Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers document the life and career of the Delaware-based civil rights activist and educator Littleton P. Mitchell (1918-2004) and his wife Jane E. Mitchell (1921-2004). The collection contains material relating to his education, activities as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, his three decades-long leadership of the Delaware NAACP, his career as a teacher and counselor at Governor Bacon Health Center in Delaware City, and his involvement in a number of...
Dates: 1911-2009; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

Nineteenth-century British scrapbook of theatrical, historical, royal, and artistic content

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0040
Abstract This British nineteenth-century scrapbook of theatrical, historical, royal, and artistic content features images created from multiple printing processes, predominantly monochromatic engravings, though the album also includes original artwork, elaborately printed Victorian-era greeting cards, and other color illustrations. Collected images include Italian, French, and primarily British landmarks, abbeys, cathedrals, historic landscapes, and British monarchs and nobility. This scrapbook also...
Dates: approximately 1846-1899

G. Burton Pearson, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0432
Abstract

Personal correspondence, papers, and photographs from Delaware lawyer, judge, and banker George Burton Pearson, Jr., as well as papers from relatives in the Pearson, Cochran, Warren, and Hardcastle families.

Dates: 1840-1999; Majority of material found within 1880-1950

Peter Owen publishing records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0571
Abstract

Peter Owen publishing records is the publisher’s archive (1950s-1995) of an independent British firm renowned for its international list of major authors and avant garde works. The bulk of the collection consists of the production files of selected works, primarily from the 1980s and 1990s, including edited typescripts, proofs, and other materials documenting the process of turning an author’s manuscript into a finished book.

Dates: 1951-1995

Doug Smith collection of Mark Harris correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0757
Abstract

American author Mark Harris (1922-2007) wrote approximately 34 letters to close friend sportswriter Doug Smith between 1996 and 2007, in which he included details about his daily life and reflections on his own writing.

Dates: 1996-2007

Reverend Willard M. White scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0576
Abstract

The scrapbook collection of Reverend Willard M. White, Delaware-born Methodist minister, spans nearly seventy years and includes ten scrapbooks relating to White’s education at the Westminster (later Wesley) Theological Seminary, work with Christian youth clubs and camps during the 1930s, and service to several Methodist Protestant and United Methodist churches in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Dates: 1919-1988

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Names
Creator unidentified 2
Bernard, Oliver 1
Beston, Henry, 1888-1968 1
Bode, Charles Gustav, 1901- 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
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Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
Coatsworth, Elizabeth, 1893-1986 1
Cochran family 1
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 1
Crosland, Margaret, 1920- 1
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 1
Cumming, Anne 1
Daiber, Franklin C. 1
Daiber, Joanne Currier 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
Delaware Humanities Forum 1
Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 1
Episcopal Church 1
Evans, Abbie Huston 1
Faldbakken, Knut 1
Farr, Evelyn 1
Fischer, Wolfgang Georg, 1933- 1
Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 1
Gibbins, Lillian Ann 1
Gibson, H. B. (Hamilton Bertie) 1
Glass, N. M. (Norman M.), 1894-1976 1
Governor Bacon Health Center 1
Halegua, Lillian 1
Hardcastle family 1
Hargreaves, Gloria 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1
Harrington, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1928 1
Harrington, Mary Lofland,1813-1871 1
Harrington, Purnell Frederick, 1844-1937 1
Harrington, Richard, 1772-1821 1
Harrington, Richard, 1847-1884 1
Harrington, Samuel M. (Samuel Maxwell), 1803-1865 1
Harrington, Samuel Milby, 1840-1878 1
Harris, Mark, 1922-2007 1
Haylock, John 1
Herbert, David 1
Home, Stewart, 1962- 1
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Inoue, Yasushi, 1907-1991 1
Kihlman, Christer, 1930- 1
Le Vay, David 1
Littell Families of America 1
Littell family 1
Littell, Charles Willing, 1832-1895 1
Littell, Eliakim, 1797-1870 1
Littell, Elton Gardiner, 1877-1962 1
Littell, Estelle Sherman, 1889-1978 1
Littell, Gertrude (Gretchen), 1905-2003 1
Littell, Gertrude Wilson, -1919 1
Littell, Harriet Hare, 1835-1885 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia Harrington, -1924 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia, 1880-1934 1
Littell, Helen, 1914- 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1806-1875 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1870- 1
Littell, Margaret, 1903-1990 1
Littell, Mary Morris, 1884-1984 1
Littell, Samuel Harrington, 1873-1967 1
Littell, T. Gardiner, 1837-1911 1
Littell, Thomas Gardiner, 1902-1929 1
Littell, Walter Wilson, 1910-1995 1
Lympany, Moura, 1916-2005 1
Maraini, Dacia 1
Melvin, W. A. 1
Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
Minco, Marga 1
Mitchell, Jane E. (Jane Evelyn), 1921-2004 1
Mitchell, Littleton P. (Littleton Purnell), 1918-2009 1
Moorepark, Howard 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1775-1865 1
Morris, Susan Sophia, 1800-1868 1
Morse family 1
Murch, A. E. (Alma Elizabeth) 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
Parland, Oscar, 1912-1997 1
Pearson family 1
Perrett, Louise 1
Peter Owen (Firm) 1
Piaf, Edith, 1915-1963 1
Pinckney, Josephine, 1895-1957 1
Pitt-Kethley, Fiona, 1954- 1
Princeton University 1
Progressive Club of Delaware 1
Pulsifer, Gary 1
Redding, Louis L. 1
Reed, Jeremy 1
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800 1
Rootes, Nina 1
Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939 1
Rubinstein, Stanley J. (Stanley Jack) 1
Russell Taylor, Elisabeth, 1930- 1
Ruyslinck, Ward, 1929-2014 1
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