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Thurman Adams, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0619
Abstract

Democratic Senator Thurman Adams, Jr., (1928-2009) was the longest-serving senator in the history of the Delaware General Assembly. Adams was also the president of T.G. Adams & Sons, Inc., an agricultural feed and grain business in Bridgeville, Delaware. The Thurman Adams, Jr., papers chronicle the personal and professional life of the longest-serving senator (a Democrat from the 19th District) in the history of the Delaware General Assembly.

Dates: 1939-2012; Majority of material found within 1960-2009

Patricia Dycio Pete du Pont political ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0889
Abstract

Political ephemera, mostly related to Delaware governor Pete du Pont, including campaign buttons, t-shirts, a newspaper clipping, a 1981 inaugural program, and campaign literature collected by Patricia Buchanan Dycio.

Dates: circa 1977-1981

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

William Livermore papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0157
Abstract

The William Livermore papers give a comprehensive account of the career of a U.S. Army engineer in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1814-1919

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

World fairs and expositions collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0630
Abstract

This artificial collection comprises a variety of types of material documenting world fairs and expositions, spanning the dates between 1851 and 1967, with the bulk of the collection dating from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Material consists of printed matter and ephemera, including newspapers, programs, invitations, maps, brochures, viewbooks, advertisements, stationery, contracts, bonds, trade cards, and a scrapbook; photographs and prints; and realia souvenirs.

Dates: 1851-1967; Majority of material found in 1893

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Correspondence 4
Ephemera (general) 4
Black-and-white photographs 3
Clippings (information artifacts) 3
Newspapers 3
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Photographs 3
Postcards 3
Advertisements 2
Albumen prints 2
Color photographs 2
Delaware--Politics and government--20th century 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
New Castle County (Del.) 2
Obituaries 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Political posters 2
Printed ephemera 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Scrapbooks 2
Sketches 2
Stationery 2
Women--Delaware--History--20th century 2
Account books 1
Advertising fans 1
African American authors 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Agriculture--Delaware--History--21st century 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Announcements 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Auction catalogs 1
Awards 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Barbados 1
Bethany (W. Va.) 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Birthday cards 1
Blueprints (reprographic copies) 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Bridgeville (Del.) 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 1
Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Buttons (information artifacts) 1
Cabinet photographs 1
California--Description and travel 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Children 1
Christmas cards 1
Commonplace books 1
Contracts 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Delaware--Politics and government 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1951- 1
Delaware--Politics and government--21st century 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Engineers 1
England--Description and travel 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Fairs 1
Financial records 1
Florida--Description and travel 1
France--Description and travel 1
Freemasons--20th century 1
Freemasons--21st century 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
French 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Italian 1
 
Names
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 2
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 2
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 2
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 2
Du Pont, Pierre S. 2
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University of Delaware 2
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
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
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Delaware. Supreme Court 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dysio, Patricia B. 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 1
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 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
Gordy, William J., 1910- 1
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 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
League of Women Voters of Delaware 1
Livermore, W. R. (William Roscoe), 1843-1919 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Minner, Ruth Ann, 1935- 1
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) 1
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.) 1
Newark (Del.). City Council 1
Newark Free Library (Newark, Del.) 1
Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) 1
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Pears (A. & F.) Limited 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reagan, Ronald 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roselle, David P. 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers 1
University of Michigan 1
University of Pittsburgh 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.) 1
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