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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

Dorothy Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0875
Abstract Delaware environmental activist Dorothy Miller (1931-2016) led a coaltion of citizens, conservation-minded organizations, the DuPont Company, and the state governments of Delaware and Pennsylvania to acquire and preserve open space to protect the entire White Clay Creek Watershed. Spanning the dates 1965-2010, this collection documents community efforts led by Miller to preserve the White Clay Creek Watershed and her further work on water resources, residential/commercial and transportation...
Dates: 1965-2010

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

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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Clippings (information artifacts) 3
Correspondence 3
Invitations 3
Advertisements 2
Albumen prints 2
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Black-and-white photographs 2
Ephemera (general) 2
New Castle County (Del.) 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Photographs 2
Postcards 2
Printed ephemera 2
Scrapbooks 2
Stationery 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
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
Biographies (documents) 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Bridgeville (Del.) 1
Broadsides (notices) 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
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Christina River Basin (Del.) 1
Churchmans Marsh (Del.) 1
Color photographs 1
Commonplace books 1
Community Life--Delaware--Newark--History--20th century 1
Conservation of natural resources--Delaware 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--20th century 1
Delaware--Politics and government--21st century 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Economic development 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
Freemasons--20th century 1
Freemasons--21st century 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Invoices 1
Lamborn Run (Del.) 1
Land surveys 1
Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
Later prints 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Legislators 1
Lithographic engravings (prints) 1
London (England)--History--19th century 1
London Britain (Pa. : Township) 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
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Cherokee 1
German 1
 
Names
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 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
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Coalition for Natural Stream Valleys 1
Delaware. Department of Transportation 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
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
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hercules Powder Company 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Miller, Dorothy P. 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
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
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
Sierra Club. Delaware Chapter 1
Stump, E. Charles, III 1
Stump, Emily C. 1
Tribbitt, Sherman W. 1
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers 1
United States. Wild and Scenic Rivers Act 1
University of Delaware 1
Water Resources Agency for New Castle County 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
White Clay Watershed Association 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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