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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

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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Albumen prints 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Invitations 2
Maps (documents) 2
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Photographs 2
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Scrapbooks 2
Stationery 2
Account books 1
Advertisements 1
Advertising fans 1
African American authors 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Art auctions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Art galleries, commercial--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Art museums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Art--Societies, etc--19th century 1
Art--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Commonplace books 1
Contracts 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Correspondence 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 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
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Fairs 1
Financial records 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
Illustrators 1
Invoices 1
Land surveys 1
Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
Later prints 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Lithographic engravings (prints) 1
London (England)--History--19th century 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
Marriage certificates 1
Memorandums 1
Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
Millers (people) 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1
Montréal (Québec)--History--20th century 1
Motion picture film 1
Music rolls 1
Negatives (photographic) 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--18th century 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--19th century 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
German 1
 
Names
Anshutz, Thomas Pollock, 1851-1912 1
Art Club of Philadelphia 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
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Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
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
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 1
Childs, George William, 1829-1894 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Davis & Harvey 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
Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 1
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 1
Fairmount Park Art Association 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Furness, Frank, 1839-1912 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Grafly, Charles, 1862-1929 1
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Haseltine Galleries 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
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses 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
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1
Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm) 1
Photographic Society of Philadelphia 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
Shinn, Everett, 1876-1953 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Sloan, Helen Farr, 1911-2005 1
Sloan, John, 1871-1951 1
T Square Club (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 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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