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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

Willard Stewart photographs of Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: GRA 0139
Abstract

Willard Stewart, one of Wilmington, Delaware's, most prominent professional portrait photographers, became the primary photographer for the Delaware Federal Writers' Project and photographed numerous Delaware buildings and landscapes. These photographs document his contributions to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS).

Dates: circa 1936-1938

George B. Tatum papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0557
Abstract

The George B. Tatum papers comprise the reference files of a noted American architectural historian who compiled and organized numerous architectural plans, diagrams, black-and-white illustrations, tear sheets, articles, and selected photographs for the period 1900 to 1940.

Dates: 1900-1940

Robert Taylor letter to John Reynell

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0068
Abstract

Brief autograph letter from Robert Taylor of Wilmington, Delaware, to Philadelphia merchant and banker, John Reynell, requesting 12 small loaves of loaf sugar.

Dates: 1768 September 2

University of Delaware Library collection of Delaware politics, policy, and government websites

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0744
Abstract This collection broadly documents online sources related to Delaware policy, politics and government, including websites and social media sites of current and former members of Congress; Delaware political parties; Delaware individuals who represent leadership in diplomatic or political arenas, domestic or foreign, at the local, state, and national levels; institutions, organizations, or groups concerned with public policy or civic affairs in Delaware; and Delaware political campaign...
Dates: 2015-2020

University of Delaware Library collection of websites related to Delaware environmental policy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0798
Abstract

This documents online sources related to Delaware’s unique ecology and environmental policy. This collection includes websites and social media sites of individuals and local, state and regional associations involved with Delaware’s natural resources and environmental policy. This collection focuses on web resources related to the Delaware environment generally; state and regional parks and recreation; and local plants and animals.

Dates: 2016-2017

University of Delaware Library collection of websites relating to the Library’s literary collections

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0799
Abstract

This collection documents websites and social media related to authors, playwrights, and other literary figures and organizations which complement and enrich existing literary collections held in Special Collections. This collection includes sites related to University of Delaware Library holdings in American literature; Irish literature; and theatre.

Dates: 2016-2017

Voices of 1968 oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0858
Abstract Voices of 1968 is an oral history collection focused on Delawareans to capture local stories of that pivotal year in American history. Interviews were conducted by Library staff, partners in the Wilmington Archive Project, and other project volunteers. The topics covered in the interviews include campus politics and student activism in Delaware (particularly through the Students for Democratic Society chapter at the University of Delaware campus), reactions to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s...
Dates: 2018

Christopher Ward letter to Marina Wister

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0176
Abstract

Delaware author Christopher Ward sent this three-page signed and handwritten letter to his friend Marian Wister in 1926.

Dates: 1926 May 27

Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church record book

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0094
Abstract

This volume contains records from the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church of Wilmington, Delaware, from 1885 to 1914.

Dates: 1885-1914

Reminiscences of Wilmington

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0086
Abstract

This manuscript consists of M.C.L. (Miriam C. Lamborn) Worrell’s reminiscences about Wilmington, Delaware, in the 1810s-1820s. The notes were recorded by Worrell in the 1880s-1890s.

Dates: 1880s-1890s

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Minutes (administrative records) 8
Wilmington (Del.)--History--19th century 8
Black-and-white photographs 7
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Newark (Del.) 5
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Delaware--History--20th century 4
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Greeting cards 4
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New Castle County (Del.) 4
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University of Delaware 5
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. 4
Delaware Theatre Company 4
Carper, Thomas R., 1947- 3
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 3
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Mullen, Shaun D., 1947- 3
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 2
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 2
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 2
Conrad, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1852- 2
Delaware. General Assembly 2
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 2
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 2
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 2
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 2
Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.) 2
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 2
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation 2
League of Women Voters of Delaware 2
Maxwell, Gee Tee 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 2
Young, Pauline A., 1900-1991 2
Abbott, Franklin 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Adams, Thurman, Jr. 1
Albro & Lindeberg 1
Allmond, Charles M., 1931-2019 1
American Pilot (Training ship) 1
Armstrong, George 1
Arthurs, Stanley Massey, 1877-1950 1
Ashburnham, Elizabeth, approximately 1774-1868 1
Baker, James M., 1942- 1
Bannowsky, Phillip 1
Baum, Dwight James, 1886-1939 1
Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bennett, Ezekiel 1
Bennett, Lewis 1
Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.) 1
Betts, Mahlon 1
Biden, Robert Hunter, 1970- 1
Bishop's Mill Historic Institute 1
Bluenose (Ship) 1
Bluenose II (Ship) 1
Boggan, Patrick, approximately 1725-1817 1
Bolger, Dermot, 1959- 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Brenner, Summer 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, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Broome, Jacob 1
Broome, James 1
Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Brown, Harry Fletcher 1
Brown, Patricia D. 1
Bucher, Emile E., 1868-1914 1
Bullard, Roger H. 1
Bush, Charles W., 1863-1963 1
Callender, Donald W., Jr. 1
Callender, Donald W., Jr.--Archives 1
Camp Croft (S.C. : Military camp) 1
Canby, James, 1781-1858 1
Canby, James, 1781-1858--Correspondence 1
Carey, Claire LaMar 1
Carey, Harmon R. 1
Carrère & Hastings 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Central National Bank of Philadelphia 1
Chapman, Charles Shepard, 1879-1962 1
Christina River Improvement Company 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
Cobwebbs 1
Codor, Dick 1
Conway, Charles 1
Coons, Christopher A. 1
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824 1
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824--Correspondence 1
Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson 1
Creator unidentified 1
Daley, Anne 1
Day and Klauder 1
Delano & Aldrich 1
Delaware Alliance Federal Credit Union 1
Delaware Audubon Society 1
Delaware Construction Company 1
Delaware Humanities Forum 1
Delaware National Guard 1
Delaware State Lottery (1835) 1
Delaware. Department of Public Instruction 1
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