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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

Brian Coffey papers

 Collection
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

John W. Jordan, "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0025
Abstract John Woolf Jordan (1840-1921) was a Philadelphia historian specializing in genealogies and personal histories, especially those of Pennsylvania families. This scrapbook comprises a single volume containing clippings of John W. Jordan's travel narrative, "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" from an unknown publication; also included are picture postcards and photographic illustrations of the ships on which he traveled and locations he visited, several of which are accompanied by...
Dates: 1911

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

Alice Marston scrapbook

 Collection
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

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

Jessie Southard Parker journal and scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0057
Abstract

These nine volumes are a journal and scrapbook kept by Jessie Southard Parker of Belmont, Massachusetts, from 1899 to 1916. Parker wrote extensively about her social and family life, thoughts on current events, and belief in Christian Science, supplementing her entries with theatrical programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of ephemera.

Dates: 1899-1916

Emilie Sargent scrapbook of West Indies and South American cruise aboard R.M.S. Mauretania

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0010
Abstract The Emilie Sargent scrapbook documents Sargent’s travels to the West Indies and South America aboard the cruise ship R.M.S. Mauretania in the fall of 1933. The scrapbook comprises approximately one-hundred-pages of photographs, newsletters, postcards, programs, menus, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, and other ship ephemera gathered during the cruise, which stopped at the following ports of call between September 9 and September 22, 1933: Trinidad, La Guaira...
Dates: 1933-1935

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

Robert J. Voshell collection of Delaware political ephemera scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0119
Abstract

Delaware native Robert J. Voshell spent his career working for the Delaware Department of Motor Vehicles and served as a State Senator representing the Milford area from 1993-1998. The Robert J. Voshell collection of Delaware political ephemera scrapbooks contains 17 volumes and 2 albums of flyers, clippings, bumper stickers, newsletters, brochures, posters and other ephemeral material pertaining to local, state and federal elections, Delaware government and politics.

Dates: 1925-2004; Majority of material found within 1968-2000

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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Postcards 9
Clippings (information artifacts) 8
Photographs 8
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Invitations 4
Programs (documents) 4
Brochures 3
Genealogy 3
Maps (documents) 3
Ocean travel--History--20th century 3
Tintypes (prints) 3
Advertisements 2
Albumen prints 2
Broadsides (notices) 2
Commonplace books 2
Copybooks (instructional materials) 2
Cruise ships--History--20th century 2
Deeds 2
Delaware--History--19th century 2
Delaware--History--20th century 2
Diaries 2
Financial records 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Genealogists 2
Historic buildings 2
Menus 2
Newspapers 2
Pamphlets 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 2
Playbills 2
Postcards--Delaware 2
Printed ephemera 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Scrapbooks--United States--History--20th century 2
Stationery 2
Students 2
Tickets 2
Trade cards (advertising) 2
Works of art 2
Account books 1
Advertising fans 1
Advertising, Political--United States 1
African American authors 1
Agriculture--History--19th century 1
Agriculturists 1
Allentown (Pa.) 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Artists (visual artists) 1
Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel 1
Auction catalogs 1
Audio cassette 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Belmont (Mass.) 1
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Birth certificates 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
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Boston (Mass.) 1
Boyce (Va.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
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Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Campaign paraphernalia 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
China--History--20th century 1
Choral Societies 1
Christian Science 1
Chromolithographs 1
Clarke County (Va.) 1
Clergy 1
Colón (Panama)--Description and travel 1
Contracts 1
Curaçao--Description and travel 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Delaware 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1951- 1
Devotional literature 1
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Ellicottville (N.Y.) 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
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German 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
Advent Books (Firm) 1
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 1
Atlantic Transport Line 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
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Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 1
Boggs, J. Caleb (James Caleb), 1909-1993 1
Bonheur, Gaston 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 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
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995--Archives 1
Coffey, Denis J. 1
Cunard Line, ltd. 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Devlin, Denis, 1908-1959 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. 1
Embolador, Pinto Repentista 1
Episcopal Church 1
Evans, Thomas Beverly, Jr. 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
Hamburg-American Line 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
Harrington, Mary Lofland,1813-1871 1
Harrington, Purnell Frederick, 1844-1937 1
Harrington, Richard, 1772-1821 1
Harrington, Richard, 1847-1884 1
Harrington, Samuel M. (Samuel Maxwell), 1803-1865 1
Harrington, Samuel Milby, 1840-1878 1
Harris, Dorothy 1
Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921 1
Littell Families of America 1
Littell family 1
Littell, Charles Willing, 1832-1895 1
Littell, Eliakim, 1797-1870 1
Littell, Elton Gardiner, 1877-1962 1
Littell, Estelle Sherman, 1889-1978 1
Littell, Gertrude (Gretchen), 1905-2003 1
Littell, Gertrude Wilson, -1919 1
Littell, Harriet Hare, 1835-1885 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia Harrington, -1924 1
Littell, Helen Arcadia, 1880-1934 1
Littell, Helen, 1914- 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1806-1875 1
Littell, John Stockton, 1870- 1
Littell, Margaret, 1903-1990 1
Littell, Mary Morris, 1884-1984 1
Littell, Samuel Harrington, 1873-1967 1
Littell, T. Gardiner, 1837-1911 1
Littell, Thomas Gardiner, 1902-1929 1
Littell, Walter Wilson, 1910-1995 1
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898 1
Marston, Henry Ward, 1859- 1
Mauretania (Ship) 1
McAlpine, Margaret Mary 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Elizabeth Carrington, 1775-1865 1
Morris, Susan Sophia, 1800-1868 1
Morse family 1
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 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
Noyes, Alexander Dana, 1862-1945 1
Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) 1
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Parker, Jessie Southard 1
Pears (A. & F.) Limited 1
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