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Walter Penn Shipley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0608
Abstract

This collection contains materials related to Walter Penn Shipley, a Philadelphia lawyer and well-known amateur chess enthusiast of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Materials include photographs, magazines and newspaper articles of Shipley’s chess activities as well as photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to Walter Penn Shipley, his family, and his friends.

Dates: 1879-1951

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

Barrie Stavis letters to Stanley Weintraub

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0856
Abstract

Between 1971 and 1995, American playwright Barrie Stavis (1906-2007) wrote approximately 30 letters to historian Stanley Weintraub (born 1929) in which he discussed mutual friends, his writing projects, and their families.

Dates: 1971 March 25-1994 March 21

Marion H. Steele papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0439
Abstract

The papers of Marion H. Steele, former managing editor of the Journal of Home Economics and University of Delaware graduate.

Dates: 1906-1999; Majority of material found within 1923-1985

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Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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New Castle County (Del.) 1
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Cherokee 1
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American Home Economics Association 1
Atwater, Helen W. 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1