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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

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

Dale E. and Clarice Wolf papers and memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0648
Abstract

Dale E. Wolf served as lieutenant governor of Delaware (1989-1992) and briefly as governor (December 31, 1992-January 19, 1993). The Dale E. and Clarice Wolf papers and memorabilia document Wolf’s military service in World War II, his early agricultural research and DuPont Company career, his political career and public service, as well as the community service of his wife, Clarice Wolf.

Dates: 1925-2013; Majority of material found within 1980-1993

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Castle, Michael N., 1939- 2
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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
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clark, Laurie 1
Clark, Thomas A. 1
Clay, Steven, 1951- 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Cohen, Ryosuke, 1948- 1
Conz, Francesco, 1935- 1
Cudworth, Nick 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Delaware. Supreme Court 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 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
Minner, Ruth Ann, 1935- 1
Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-2008 1
Openings Press 1
Openings-Closings Press 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
Skuber, Berty 1
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
University of Delaware 1
Volta, Ornella 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wolf, Clarice 1
Wolf, Dale E., 1924- 1
Zelevansky, Paul 1
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