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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

Richard McCann papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0616
Abstract The Richard McCann papers document the personal life and professional career of this American author, poet, and educator. The collection includes McCann's early creative writing; teaching materials; reviews, essays, and critical writing; personal and professional correspondence; and extensive drafts of McCann's poetry and fiction. McCann's fiction has autobiographical roots, often drawn from family relationships and personal experiences, as illustrated in photographs and family memorabilia...
Dates: 1920s-2008; Majority of material found within 1978-2005

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

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Correspondence 3
Invitations 3
Magazines (periodicals) 3
Programs (documents) 3
Advertisements 2
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Albumen prints 2
Articles 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Contracts 2
Maps (documents) 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Printed ephemera 2
Scrapbooks 2
Stationery 2
Account books 1
Advertising fans 1
African American authors 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
American literature--20th century 1
American literature--21st century 1
American poetry--20th century 1
Anthologies 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Artifacts (object genre) 1
Arts and crafts movement--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Authors 1
Authors, American--20th century 1
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence 1
Authors, American--21st century 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Books 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 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
Certificates 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Commonplace books 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 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
Diplomas 1
Dogs 1
Drafts (documents) 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
Education--United States--History--20th century 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Epistles 1
Estate inventories 1
Eulogies 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Fairs 1
Families--United States--History--20th century 1
Financial records 1
Gay authors--United States--20th century 1
Gay authors--United States--21st century 1
Gays in popular culture--United States--History--20th century 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Genealogists 1
Genealogy 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Grant proposals 1
Historic buildings 1
Historic ships--18th century 1
Historic ships--19th century 1
Indentures 1
Invoices 1
Journals (periodicals) 1
Land surveys 1
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Cherokee 1
French 1
German 1
Italian 1
 
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American University (Washington, D.C.) 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
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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
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 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
Göteborgs universitet 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hollins College 1
Howe, Marie, 1950- 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
Kevorkian, Karen 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
McCann, Richard 1
McCann, Richard--Archives 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
Press of Kells 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 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
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
University of Iowa 1
Virginia Commonwealth University 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
Yaddo (Artists' colony) 1
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