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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

Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0646
Abstract The Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material comprises approximately 1.6 linear feet of material pertaining to English bibliographer, book collector, and forger Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937). Much of the collection's material was compiled by English bibliographer and book collector John Carter (1905-1975), who co-authored with Graham Pollard (1903-1976) An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), which effectively outed Wise as a...
Dates: 1897-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1934-1975

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

Alice Marston scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0421
Abstract

The Alice Marston scrapbook, 1896-1906, chronicles a decade of Marston family life, revealing information about the social, cultural, and leisure activities of an ordinary upper-middle-class Philadelphia family at the turn of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1896-1906

Jessie Southard Parker journal and scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0057
Abstract

These nine volumes are a journal and scrapbook kept by Jessie Southard Parker of Belmont, Massachusetts, from 1899 to 1916. Parker wrote extensively about her social and family life, thoughts on current events, and belief in Christian Science, supplementing her entries with theatrical programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of ephemera.

Dates: 1899-1916

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

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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Clippings (information artifacts) 7
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Delaware--History--20th century 2
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Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
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Advertising fans 1
African American authors 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
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Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Belmont (Mass.) 1
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Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
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Fairs 1
Female friendship 1
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Galley proofs 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
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Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
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Historic ships--18th century 1
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Bayley, Solomon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
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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
Carter, John, 1905-1975 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Garland, Bruce 1
Gibbins, Lillian Ann 1
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Marston, Henry Ward, 1859- 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
Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) 1
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Parker, Jessie Southard 1
Pears (A. & F.) Limited 1
Penny, Georgina Maria Cooper, 1850-1902 1
Perrett, Louise 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Smith, Sarah K. 1
Todd, William B. 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 1
Wolf, Clarice 1
Wolf, Dale E., 1924- 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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