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William S. Auchincloss scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0420
Abstract This one-volume scrapbook, with contents spanning 1862- 1892, includes correspondence, maps, tickets, papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, advertisements, and drawings; and was largely assembled from the professional activities of William S. Auchincloss. Evidence within the scrapbook points to the wide range of interests that captured the attention of Auchincloss, a civil and mechanical engineer, originally from New York who later resided in Wilmington, Delaware, and in...
Dates: 1862-1892
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Centennial Exposition scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0015
Abstract

This scrapbook of advertisements, trade cards, and collectible ephemera from the 1876 Centennial Exposition was created by Richard W. Davids.

Dates: 1876
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0646
Abstract The Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material comprises approximately 1.6 linear feet of material pertaining to English bibliographer, book collector, and forger Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937). Much of the collection's material was compiled by English bibliographer and book collector John Carter (1905-1975), who co-authored with Graham Pollard (1903-1976) An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), which effectively outed Wise as a...
Dates: 1897-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1934-1975
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0431
Abstract

The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger’s trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

Dates: 1909
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Scrapbook of automobiles

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0009
Abstract

This single volume scrapbook contains advertisements for automobiles, as clipped from magazines published during the 1950s, particularly the Saturday Evening Post, plus an occasional newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1936-1954; Majority of material found within 1950-1954
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Clippings (information artifacts) 3
Maps (documents) 3
Trade cards (advertising) 3
Correspondence 2
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 2
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Invitations 2
Menus 2
Pamphlets 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Photographs 2
Postcards 2
Programs (documents) 2
Tickets 2
Advertising fans 1
Advertising--United States--History--20th century 1
Albumen prints 1
Articles 1
Auction catalogs 1
Authors, American--19th century 1
Automobiles--United States--History--20th century 1
Bibliographers 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Brazil--Description and travel 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Business letters 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Civil engineering--History--19th century 1
Collectors 1
Contracts 1
Cruise ships--History--20th century 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Engineers 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Exhibition catalogs 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Forgers (criminals) 1
Galley proofs 1
Handbills 1
Inventors--United States--History--20th century 1
Literary forgeries and mystifications--History--19th century 1
Literary forgeries and mystifications--History--20th century 1
London (England)--History--19th century 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Mechanical engineering--History--19th century 1
Montréal (Québec)--History--20th century 1
New Orleans (La.)--History--19th century 1
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Newspapers 1
Ocean travel--History--20th century 1
Page proofs 1
Pennants 1
Periodicals 1
Punch (London, England) 1
Railroads--History--19th century 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Reprints 1
Research notes 1
Reviews (document genre) 1
Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--20th century 1
San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century 1
Scarves (costume accessories) 1
Schedules (time plans) 1
Scrapbooks--United States--History--20th century 1
South America--Description and travel 1
Souvenirs 1
Stationery 1
Stereographs 1
Stereoscopes 1
Telegrams 1
Theater--History--20th century 1
Transcripts 1
Travel--United States--19th century 1
Viewbooks 1
Visiting cards 1
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Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Pears (A. & F.) Limited 2
Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart), 1842-1928 1
Carter, John, 1905-1975 1
Creator unidentified 1
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Davids, Richard W. 1
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 1
Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris 1
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 1
Garland, Bruce 1
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 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
Nixon-Nirdlinger, Fred G. (Frederick G.), 1877-1931 1
Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) 1
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Todd, William B. 1
United States. Navy 1
Wanamaker & Brown 1
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 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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