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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
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
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
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