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Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0583
Abstract The Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers contains twenty-six three-ring notebooks and nine folders of genealogical research notes, family photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century generations of Boyce's family lines from Delaware and Virginia. Boyce's research includes the Boyce, Justis, Morrow, Shreve, Wright, Brownley, Lawrence, Sebree, Adams, and Tuley families, as well as the family lines of his wife, Doris Jolls...
Dates: 1792-1999; Majority of material found within 1850s-1980s

Brinton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0453
Abstract

The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.

Dates: 1715-1930

Thomas F. Jones, Sr., papers regarding the Civilian Conservation Corps and Pearl Harbor

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0651
Abstract

This collection consists of photograph albums, training manuals, documents, and artifacts related to Thomas F. Jones, Sr.'s service in the Civilian Conservation Corps and later as a solider in the United States Army Coast Artillery stationed in Hawaii during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Dates: 1937-1946

Paul W. Knauf, Jr. World War II photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0582
Abstract

The Paul W. Knauf, Jr. World War II photograph collection consists of seventy-one black and white photographs depicting events in the European Theater of Operations from 1943 through 1945. Fifteen of the photographs were created using the Army’s radio tele-photograph electronic-transmission system. In addition to the photographs, the collection includes newspapers, a certificate from the Bell Telephone Laboratories School for War Training, and an issue of the publication "Army Talks."

Dates: 1943-1945

Thomas Becker Malone, Jr., World War II correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0906
Abstract Thomas Becker Malone, Jr. (1919-1980) was an American serviceman in the U.S. Army, Office of the Post Quartermaster, Headquarters Command, in the European theater of World War II. This collection comprises letters and V-mail exchanged by Malone and his family and friends in Delaware from 1942 to 1946. During this time, Malone trained at Camp Croft in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and served abroad in London, England, and Paris, France. The collection also contains Selective Service letters...
Dates: 1941-1946, undated; Majority of material found within 1942-1945

Samuel C. T. and Julia Dudkewitz McDowell World War II correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0748
Abstract Samuel C. T. McDowell (1920-2007) was an American Army Air Force lieutenant in World War II. His wife, Julia Dudkewitz McDowell (1923-2001), was a tracing clerk in the Reproduction Department, Design Division at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in the 1940s. This collection comprises letters exchanged by the serviceman and his spouse on the homefront in Delaware, on a nearly daily basis, during the period 1943-1945. During this time, Samuel was stationed domestically and deployed in...
Dates: 1937-1945, 2002; Majority of material found within 1943-1945

Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers

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Identifier: MSS 0629
Abstract The Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers document the life and career of the Delaware-based civil rights activist and educator Littleton P. Mitchell (1918-2004) and his wife Jane E. Mitchell (1921-2004). The collection contains material relating to his education, activities as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, his three decades-long leadership of the Delaware NAACP, his career as a teacher and counselor at Governor Bacon Health Center in Delaware City, and his involvement in a number of...
Dates: 1911-2009; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

George W. and Pauline Murray, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0702
Abstract This collection documents the lives of Newark, Delaware, residents George W. Murray, Jr., and Pauline E. Murray during World War II. The collection is small, yet it gives a glimpse of both military service and the homefront experiences of the young married couple during war. Included are handwritten correspondence exchanged by the married couple while George Murray was stationed at Army Air Force bases on the continental United States and in Europe, illustrating life both at home and abroad...
Dates: 1939-1946

Pierce family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0293
Abstract

The Pierce family papers comprise materials relating to the Pierce family of New Castle, Delaware, from the early nineteenth century to the middle twentieth century. Most of the forty-eight items date from the American Civil War and provide a personal description of military life.

Dates: 1833-1954; Majority of material found within 1862-1864

Henry J. Southmayd, Jr., World War II letters to the Southmayd family

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0666
Abstract

This collection consists of 58 letters written by Henry J. Southmayd, Jr., to his family between 1940 and 1945 while serving in the 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group of the 12th Army Air Force. The letters detail his recruitment into the Army Air Corps and subsequent training as well as the events and conditions experienced while participating in the North African and Italian campaigns of the European Theater during World War II.

Dates: 1940-1967; Majority of material found within 1940-1945

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Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942 1
Brinton, George, 1804-1858 1
Brinton, John H. (John Hill), 1832-1907 1
Brinton, John Hill, 1772-1827 1
Brinton, Ward, 1873-1935 1
Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
Camp Croft (S.C. : Military camp) 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
Delaware Humanities Forum 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Fort Dix (N.J.) 1
Frank, Bill, 1905-1989 1
Governor Bacon Health Center 1
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Jefferson Medical College 1
Jones, Thomas F., Sr. 1
Knauf, Paul W., Jr. 1
Malone, Dorothy V., 1916-1991 1
Malone, Eleanor C. Wycherly, 1885-1962 1
Malone, Thomas Becker, Jr., 1919-1980 1
Malone, Thomas Becker, Sr., 1879-1942 1
McDowell, Julia Dudkewitz, 1923-2001 1
McDowell, Samuel C. T., 1920-2007 1
Mitchell, Jane E. (Jane Evelyn), 1921-2004 1
Mitchell, Littleton P. (Littleton Purnell), 1918-2009 1
Murray, George W., 1920-2010 1
Murray, Pauline E., 1919-1997 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 1
Nobility Silver Company 1
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1
Pierce family 1
Pierce family--Correspondence 1
Pierce, Elias 1
Pierce, Elias--Correspondence 1
Pierce, Enos 1
Pierce, Enos--Correspondence 1
Pierce, Ezra 1
Pierce, Ezra--Correspondence 1
Pierce, George 1
Pierce, George--Correspondence 1
Pierce, Marey 1
Pierce, Marey--Correspondence 1
Pierce, William 1
Pierce, William--Correspondence 1
Progressive Club of Delaware 1
Redding, Louis L. 1
Southmayd, Henry J., Jr., 1915-1967 1
Southmayd, Henry J., Jr., 1915-1967--Correspondence 1
Springfield, Eleanor May Malone, 1910-1986 1
Springfield, James J., 1913-1997 1
Steinmetz, Joseph J., active 1929-1930 1
Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 12th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 57th 1
United States. Army. Air Corps 1
United States. Army. Coast Artillery, 15th 1
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations 1
United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 97th (1861-1865) 1
United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps 1
United States. Army. Signal Corps 1
United States. Selective Service System 1
Ward, F. De W. (Ferdinand De Wilton), 1812-1891 1
West Chester University of Pennsylvania 1
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