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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

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

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

Anne Wheeler Young and William Young scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0003
Abstract This collection comprises eight scrapbooks and special periodical issues assembled and collected by Philadelphia resident Anne Wheeler Young, who was interested in sensational news such as the trial and execution of Bruno Hauptmann for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., and celebrity coverage of British royalty, particularly King George V, King Edward VII, and Queen Elizabeth II. The collection also includes a scrapbook complied by Mrs. Young’s son, William Young, for an eighth-grade...
Dates: 1934-1953

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Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
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Cherokee 1
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Names
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 1
Behan, Brendan 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
Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926- 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
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 1
Gibbon, Monk, 1896-1987 1
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hauptmann, Bruno Richard, 1899-1936 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, 1930-1932--Kidnaping, 1932 1
Mac Liammóir, Micheál, 1899-1978 1
Mackenzie, Compton, 1883-1972 1
National Collegiate Athletic Association 1
Nelson, David M., 1920-1991 1
O'Connor, Ulick 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
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
United States. Navy. Naval Air Corps 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972 1
Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986 1
Young, Anne Wheeler 1
Young, William 1
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