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Carty family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0507
Abstract

The Carty family papers, 1815-1912, represent nearly a century of the business activities as well as the personal lives of various members of the Carty family of New Jersey. The collection also includes papers of the Shreve family, which seems to have been related to the primary family in some way. The material consists mainly of receipts, account ledgers, and personal and business correspondence.

Dates: 1815-1912

Georgina M. Cooper copybook and poetry scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0095
Abstract

This nineteenth-century copybook and scrapbook was kept by student (and later teacher) Georgina Maria Cooper of Hollandsville, Delaware. It contains pages of copied phrases completed when Cooper was in school, poetry clippings, copied lists of deaths and marriages in Kent County, Delaware, and a list of her students in 1871.

Dates: 1866-1900; Majority of material found within 1866-1871

John Furnival papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0746
Abstract John Furnival (1933-2020) was a British visual artist whose work is associated with the Concrete Poetry, Mail Art, and Fluxus movements, as well as with the American Beats. In 1964, Furnival, along with Dom Sylvester Houédard, founded Openings Press, a small Gloucestershire press dedicated to publishing concrete poetry and similar work. The John Furnival papers encompass nearly fifty years of the artist’s personal and professional activity and document his involvement with the International...
Dates: 1941-2016; Majority of material found within 1970-2016

Everett C. and Louise Staton Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0361
Abstract

The Everett C. & Louise Stanton Johnson papers concern the personal affairs of prominent Delaware publisher and politician Everett C. Johnson (1877-1926) and his wife Louise Staton Johnson (1882-1977). In addition, the collection contains material from their Newark publishing house, the Press of Kells, which brought the Arts and Crafts Movement to the community from 1916 to 1918.

Dates: 1835-1988; Majority of material found within 1916-1958

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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African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
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Architecture, American--History--19th century 1
Architecture--New Jersey--History--19th century 1
Articles 1
Artifacts (object genre) 1
Artists (visual artists) 1
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Artists--England--Biography 1
Arts and crafts movement--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
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Black-and-white photographs 1
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Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
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Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
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Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
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Education--Delaware--History--19th century 1
English poetry--20th century 1
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Florence (N.J.) 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States--History--19th century 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
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Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
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Historic ships--18th century 1
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Hollandsville (Del.) 1
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Arnolfini Gallery 1
Bawden, Richard 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
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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
Carty family 1
Carty, Peter 1
Carty, Shreve 1
Carty, William 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clark, Laurie 1
Clark, Thomas A. 1
Clay, Steven, 1951- 1
Cohen, Ryosuke, 1948- 1
Conz, Francesco, 1935- 1
Cudworth, Nick 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fuller, Ron 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Furnival, Astrid, 1940- 1
Furnival, John, 1933-2020 1
Galántai, György 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-2008 1
Openings Press 1
Openings-Closings Press 1
Penny, Georgina Maria Cooper, 1850-1902 1
Pénard, Rémy 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Poltroon Press 1
Press of Kells 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rees, Darrel 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Roycroft Shop 1
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry 1
Sackner, Marvin A., 1932- 1
Sackner, Ruth 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Shreve family 1
Skuber, Berty 1
Volta, Ornella 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Zelevansky, Paul 1
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