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Delaware clippings and scrapbook collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0574
Abstract

This Delaware clippings and scrapbook collection includes articles and full page sheets clipped and saved from nineteenth- and twentieth-century published newspapers and periodicals (bulk dates 1950-1969). Housed in 17 folders and one scrapbook, the articles focus on historic structures and locations in Delaware, local politics and people, the Delaware River, transportation, and extreme weather.

Dates: 1818-1973; Majority of material found in 1950-1969

Howard Pyle correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0233
Abstract

Artist Howard Pyle was born on March 5, 1853 in Wilmington, Delaware. The collection of sixteen items includes letters from Howard Pyle to various individuals; and letters to Pyle from the authors Hamlin Garland and Richard Harding Davis, and the artists Joseph Pennell and John T. McCutcheon. Also included is a copy of Howard Pyle's bookplate with his clipped signature accompanying.

Dates: 1890-1904

Frank E. Schoonover - Thornton Oakley correspondence related to Howard Pyle

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0192
Abstract American artist Howard Pyle (1853-1911), who founded the Brandywine School of Art, was one of the pre-eminent illustrators of his time. He also maintained a successful painting and teaching career. Thornton Oakley (1881-1953) was an illustrator who studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and illustration with Howard Pyle. In 1914, Oakley was hired to head the Department of Illustration at the Philadelphia Museum's School of Industrial Art, now the Philadelphia College of Art,...
Dates: 1912-1953

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

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Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Delaware--History--20th century 2
Scrapbooks 2
Account books 1
African American authors 1
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Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Artists--Delaware--20th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Calendars 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Clippings files 1
Commonplace books 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Correspondence 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
Devotional literature 1
Diaries 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
Draftsmen (artists) 1
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Estate inventories 1
Fairs 1
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Genealogists 1
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Gothic revival (Architecture)--Delaware--New Castle County 1
Historic buildings 1
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Historic ships--18th century 1
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Invitations 1
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Larne (Northern Ireland) 1
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Merchants--United States--History--19th century 1
Millers (people) 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1
Motion picture film 1
Music rolls 1
Negatives (photographic) 1
New Castle County (Del.) 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--18th century 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--19th century 1
New Castle County (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Newspapers 1
Notebooks 1
Obituaries 1
Pamphlets 1
Panoramic photographs 1
Passports 1
Pharmacists 1
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century 1
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 1
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--20th century 1
Photograph albums 1
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Photographers--United States--History--19th century 1
Photographers--United States--History--20th century 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
German 1
 
Names
Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 2
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1