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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

George Handy Bates Samoan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0125
Abstract

The George Handy Bates Samoan papers are made up of correspondence, documents, memoranda, clippings, photographs, and other material relating to George Handy Bates's tenure as a special investigator into Samoan affairs beginning in 1886, and as a commissioner to the 1889 Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs.

Dates: 1869-1916; Majority of material found within 1880-1899

Fielding Dawson correspondence to Marcella Simpson

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0722
Abstract

Between 1972 and 1994, American author and artist Fielding Dawson (1930-2002) sent a variety of materials to his grandmother, Marcella Simpson, including letters, articles, journals, manuscripts, and ephemera. The collection provides insight into Dawson's literary career and his development as a creative wring teacher in correctional facilities.

Dates: 1972-1994

Lee Anna Embrey student diaries

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0151
Abstract These three diaries were kept between 1927 and 1929 by Central High School (Washington, D.C.) student and aspiring writer Lee Anna Embrey. Embrey described in very detailed, descriptive, and articulate language the events of her life. She wrote about family members, friends, school lessons, thoughts, and aspirations, as well as budding relationships. The diaries focus particularly on high school activities such as clubs and social events, with a special emphasis on the journalism club (Quill...
Dates: 1927-1929

Friends of Rockwood records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0675
Abstract The Friends of Rockwood, Inc., supported the maintenance of the site, collections, and educational mission of the Rockwood Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, from 1976 to 2014. The Friends of Rockwood records comprise the organization’s general administrative records; officer and member files; board of directors’ minutes and correspondence; files pertaining to the Friends’ association with New Castle County, Delaware; records relating to properties and capital improvements at Rockwood;...
Dates: 1890-2017; Majority of material found within 1976-2014

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

Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0562
Abstract

The Helen Farr SloanPhiladelphia Inquirernotebooks consist of fourteen binders of Philadelphia-area news clippings broadly related to the subject of art, encompassing the early years of John Sloan’s career in Philadelphia, and include a separately-organized group of materials from the same period about the Drexel family and publisher George W. Childs.

Dates: 1886-1896

W.D. Snodgrass letters to Lila Jean Hank

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0723
Abstract Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet W.D. (William De Witt) Snodgrass (1926-2009) wrote 58 letters between 1944 and 1946 to his then-fiancée Lila Jean Hank after being drafted into the United States Navy and stationed in Saipan. The letters described life on the naval base at the end of World War II and a long, anxious period of demobilization in the Pacific. Snodgrass was one of the early practitioners of the confessional style in American poetry with his first volume ...
Dates: 1944-1946

World War II maps and radio broadcasts collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0325
Abstract

Emily C. Stump, an executive secretary at Hercules Powder Company, compiled for the company briefing notebooks of newspaper clippings which tracked military progress of Allied and Axis powers throughout World War II. She also collected transcripts of daily radio news broadcasts from stations WOR and WDEL. The World War II maps and radio broadcasts collection includes maps, newspaper clippings, radio broadcasts and militray manuals, documenting war operations in World War II.

Dates: 1940-1945

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Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence 2
Black-and-white photographs 2
Diaries 2
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Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 2
Historic buildings 2
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Pamphlets 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Postcards 2
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Realia 2
VHS 2
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Wills 2
Wilmington (Del.)--History--20th century 2
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Advertisements 1
African American authors 1
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Architecture, Victorian--Delaware--New Castle County 1
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Delaware 1
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Names
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 2
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 2
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 2
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 2
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 2
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Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 2
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 2
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
Anshutz, Thomas Pollock, 1851-1912 1
Art Club of Philadelphia 1
Bates, George Handy, 1845-1916 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 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, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Central High School (Washington, D.C.) 1
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 1
Childs, George William, 1829-1894 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Davis & Harvey 1
Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002 1
Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002--Correspondence 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Delaware. Supreme Court 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry 1
Drexel, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1826-1893 1
Drexel, Katharine Mary, Saint, 1858-1955 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. 1
Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 1
Embrey, Lee Anna 1
Fairmount Park Art Association 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Friends of Rockwood Inc. 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Furness, Frank, 1839-1912 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Grafly, Charles, 1862-1929 1
Hank, Lila Jean 1
Hank, Lila Jean--Correspondence 1
Haseltine Galleries 1
Hercules Powder Company 1
Hovenden, Thomas, 1840-1895 1
J.E. Caldwell & Co. 1
James S. Earle & Sons 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses 1
Minner, Ruth Ann, 1935- 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1
Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm) 1
Photographic Society of Philadelphia 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Press of Kells 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rockwood Museum (New Castle County, Del.) 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Roycroft Shop 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shinn, Everett, 1876-1953 1
Simpson, Marcella 1
Sloan, Helen Farr, 1911-2005 1
Sloan, John, 1871-1951 1
Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009 1
Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009--Correspondence 1
Stump, E. Charles, III 1
Stump, Emily C. 1
T Square Club (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
University of Delaware 1
Vincent, Gilbert Tapley, 1946- 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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