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American Association of University Women Delaware Division records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0529
Abstract

The American Association of University Women Delaware Division records reflect the history, structure, public policies, and programs of this group, and its relationship to the state branches and national organization of AAUW. AAUW's mission is to advance equity for women and girls through education, advocacy, research, and philanthropy.

Dates: 1922-2010

American Association of University Women Mill Creek Hundred Branch (Del.) records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0531
Abstract

The American Association of University Women Mill Creek Hundred Branch (Del.) records reflect the organizational structure and detail the social, intellectual, and civic life of this women's group, which was formed to support the AAUW mission to advance equity for women and girls through education, advocacy, and research. The records span the extant dates of the branch, 1972-2002.

Dates: 1972-2002

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

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

Harold Brayman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0261
Abstract Harold Brayman (1900-1988), a political journalist and former director of the Public Relations Department of Du Pont Company for 21 years, helped establish a concept of public relations which was widely emulated throughout the United States. The Harold Brayman papers, spanning from 1900-1991, document the successful dual career of one man in the fields of journalism and public relations. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings and...
Dates: 1900-1991; Majority of material found within 1928-1978

Harry Fletcher Brown collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0436
Abstract

The Harry Fletcher Brown collection, spanning the years 1881-1960 (bulk dates 1910-1952), contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, business cards, legal documents, printed material, ephemera, a photograph, World War I medal, programs, and blueprints of his Wilmington, Delaware, residence.

Dates: 1881-1960; Majority of material found within 1910-1952

Brian Coffey papers

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Identifier: MSS 0382
Abstract

The Brian Coffey papers consist of personal and literary papers which document the life and career of the avant-garde Irish poet from 1917 to 1996.

Dates: 1917-1996

Austin Dobson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0644
Abstract The Austin Dobson collection comprises approximately six linear feet plus oversize material of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, contracts, royalty statements, artwork, photographs, wills, genealogies, periodicals, clippings, scrapbooks, copper plates, and printed ephemera. The collection documents the work and life of English author and civil servant (Henry) Austin Dobson (1840-1921) and the management of Dobson's estate and literary legacy by his youngest son, Alban Dobson (1885-1962)...
Dates: 1762-1999; Majority of material found within 1861-1962

Austin Dobson collection

 Collection
Identifier: SLC 0100
Abstract

Books, largely first editions and presentation copies, as well as manuscript materials related to English poet, essayist, and biographer Austin Dobson.

Dates: circa 1850-1930

Alice Dunbar-Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0113
Abstract The Alice Dunbar-Nelson papers consist of the literary, professional, and personal papers of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. The papers include an extensive collection of her incoming correspondence. Of particular note is her correspondence (1895-1904) with Paul Laurence Dunbar, which also includes her letters to Dunbar. The Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers also include a comprehensive collection of manuscripts of her writing, including novels, stories, poetry, drama, and essays. Dunbar-Nelson maintained a...
Dates: 1895-1942

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

Frazer Jones papers of the Robert Kirkwood Society, Children of the American Revolution

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0450
Abstract

Two linear feet of correspondence, clippings, official records, photographs, publications, ephemera, and other materials primarily related to Junior President Frazer Jones’s work in the Robert Kirkwood Society of the Children of the American Revolution.

Dates: 1929-1968; Majority of material found within 1955-1965

Winsor Bradford Leach scrapbook of Civilian Conservation Corps camp print shops

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0067
Abstract

This scrapbook was created by Winsor Bradford Leach, a printing instructor at two integrated Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps in Plymouth and Holyoke, Massachusetts, between 1936 and 1938. The scrapbook contains photographs of life in the camps and print samples compiled by Leach.

Dates: 1936-1938

Littell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0449
Abstract

The Littell family papers include correspondence, letters, scrapbooks, commonplace books, copybooks, published material, ephemera, realia, financial records, diaries, books, artwork, photographs, greeting cards, postcards, clippings, and research notes created or collected by members of the Morris, Harrington, Littell, and Winslow families of Pennsylvania and Delaware from circa 1808 to 2004.

Dates: 1808-2005

Malcolm L. Mackenzie papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0611
Abstract This collection contains materials relating to Malcolm L. Mackenzie's publicity firm Malcolm L. Mackenzie & Associates and Mackenzie's personal involvement with the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, other local cultural institutions, and his interests in general maritime history and historic ships. Materials include publicity materials, written reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, facsimile maps, newsletters, photographs, photograph negatives, slides, and sailing and...
Dates: circa 1926-2007

Alice Marston scrapbook

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Identifier: MSS 0421
Abstract

The Alice Marston scrapbook, 1896-1906, chronicles a decade of Marston family life, revealing information about the social, cultural, and leisure activities of an ordinary upper-middle-class Philadelphia family at the turn of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1896-1906

Stephen McKenna papers

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Identifier: MSS 0625
Abstract English novelist Stephen McKenna (1888-1967) published forty-seven novels and six nonfiction books about English upper-class life before and after World War I. The collection spans from 1917 to 1966, with the bulk of the materials dating between 1917 to 1935, and includes correspondence to the author, manuscripts of short stories and lectures by McKenna, excerpts from other authors' works, newspaper clippings from McKenna's 1921 promotional tour in Sweden, and a volume of photographs...
Dates: 1917-1966; Majority of material found within 1917-1935

Milford New Century Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0542
Abstract

The Milford New Century Club records document the history of the club from its founding in 1898 and demonstrate the intellectual, social, and civic commitment of club members.

Dates: 1900-2005

David Fox Nelson scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0109
Abstract The collection consists of five scrapbooks assembled between 1869 and 1890 by David Fox Nelson, an African American man who escaped from slavery in North Carolina as a child and eventually arrived in New York, where he worked for the post office for several decades. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings covering a wide range of topics, especially subjects of particular significance to African Americans in the Reconstruction era. One scrapbook contains correspondence from Nelson’s...
Dates: 1863-1879, 1883, 1890-1895

David M. Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0328
Abstract

The David M. Nelson papers document the military, athletic, coaching, and administrative careers of twentieth century American football rules authority and former University of Delaware coach and administrator, David Moir Nelson.

Dates: 1936–1991; Majority of material found within 1951–1991

New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0260
Abstract

The New Century Club of Newark, Delaware, records document the history, organization, and activities of this women's club, which began in 1893 as a reading club, but quickly developed into an organization dedicated to promoting civic responsibility and social service in the Newark community.

Dates: 1893-2011

Beverley Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0620
Abstract

The Beverley Nichols papers document the personal and professional activities of prolific twentieth-century English novelist, playwright, journalist, composer, and political activist Beverley Nichols. The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, musical compositions, and photographs primarily dating between 1911 and 1991.

Dates: 1698, 1911-1991, undated; Majority of material found within 1911-1991

Ulick O'Connor papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0137
Abstract

This collection consists of material accumulated over a 25-year period by Ulick O’Connor: biographer, poet, playwright and journalist. O’Connor’s biographies of Brendan Behan and Oliver St. John Gogarty have been recognized internationally as definitive works. A large portion of the collection deals with materials for these books.

Dates: 1904-1976; Majority of material found within 1960-1974

William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0638
Abstract The William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood comprises 10.5 linear feet of material plus oversize items dating from 1844 to 2005 and includes extensive bibliographic information relating to the works of Charles Dickens and specifically to the author's final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which was unfinished at the time of his death. The collection, which illuminates Oliver's activities as a...
Dates: 1844-2005

Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0680
Abstract

The Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers comprises 14.3 linear feet of materials, spanning the dates between 1900 and 2011, and includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, travel brochures, reel-to-reel tapes, magazines, fanzines, and other materials documenting intergenerational American family life in Delaware.

Dates: circa 1900-2011

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Delaware--History--20th century 5
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Pamphlets 5
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Postcards 5
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Women--Societies and clubs--Delaware--History--20th century 5
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Invitations 4
Periodicals 4
Realia 4
Women in community organization--Delaware--History--20th century 4
Account books 3
Auction catalogs 3
Authors, English--20th century 3
Bibliographers 3
Biographers 3
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Commonplace books 3
Genealogies (histories) 3
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Delaware--History--19th century 2
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Newark (Del.)--History--20th century 2
Newsletters 2
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Language
French 4
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Cherokee 1
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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 4
Delaware State Federation of Women's Clubs 3
General Federation of Women's Clubs 3
American Association of University Women 2
American Association of University Women. Delaware Division 2
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Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 2
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 2
Dobson, Alban, 1885- 2
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921 2
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 2
University of Delaware 2
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
Adams, Phelps 1
Advent Books (Firm) 1
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
American Association of University Women. Mill Creek Hundred Branch (Del.) 1
American Pilot (Training ship) 1
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 1
Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart), 1842-1928 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 1
Behan, Brendan 1
Bluenose (Ship) 1
Bluenose II (Ship) 1
Bolger, Dermot, 1959- 1
Bonheur, Gaston 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 1
Brayman, Harold, 1900-1988 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
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
Brown, Harry Fletcher 1
Burgess, Paul 1
Carpenter, Walter Samuel, 1888-1976 1
Carter, John, 1905-1975 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Chilton, John, 1932- 1
Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Citizen's National Bank of Middletown 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995--Archives 1
Coffey, Denis J. 1
Commercial Union 1
Committee for the Re-election of the President 1
Connon, Bryan. Beverley Nichols: a life 1
Cornell University 1
D.C. Heath and Company 1
Day, Cassie E. 1
Delaware. General Assembly. Senate 1
Devlin, Denis, 1908-1959 1
Dickens Fellowship (London, England) 1
Dickens Fellowship (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Dickens, Cedric Charles 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Adaptations 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921--Bibliography 1
Du Pont, Alice Belin, 1872-1944 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 1
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 1
Duncan, Hank, 1896-1968 1
Embolador, Pinto Repentista 1
Episcopal Church 1
Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Finglas Writer's Workshop 1
Fogel Grip (Ship) 1
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Garland, Bruce 1
Gibbon, Monk, 1896-1987 1
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957 1
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 1
Gridiron Club (Washington, D.C.) 1
HMS Rose (Ship : Replica) 1
Half Moon (Ship : Replica) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harrington family 1
Harrington, Maria (Mia) Ruán, -1926 1
Harrington, Mary Elizabeth, 1837-1928 1
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