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Allan P. Colburn notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0621
Abstract

The Allan P. Colburn notebooks document the education of Allan P. Colburn (1904-1955), a prominent researcher in the field of chemistry and former University of Delaware provost and coordinator of scientific research. The bulk of the material, covering the period of 1924 to 1929, consists of lecture notes and related materials for various chemistry and engineering classes Colburn took at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dates: 1924-1947; Majority of material found within 1924-1929

Mary F. Armstrong autograph album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0001
Abstract

This mid-nineteenth century autograph album belonged to Mary F. Armstrong of Newark, Delaware, and contains original or transcribed poems about friendship signed by her female friends. Many of the contributors are from Delaware.

Dates: 1848-1852

Mahlon and James Batten family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0793
Abstract

This collection consists of four volumes containing tax assessments, mathematical exercises, accounts, memoranda, and school compositions created by Mahlon and James Batten of Pencader Hundred, Delaware, between 1832 and 1874.

Dates: 1832-1874

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

Journal of Robert Capen

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0075
Abstract

This volume is a receipt book kept by the Boston, Massachusetts, shipping firm of Thompson and Gridley for the period 1758-1765 and is interspersed with the diary of Robert Capen. The diary was written in 1811 and 1812. The entries document the weather and wind direction as well as occurances in the town of Canton, Massachusetts. There is also a single account for Samuel Capen of Canton to Robert Capen, for the period 1810-1812.

Dates: 1758-1812

Martha L. Carothers student artists' books collection

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Identifier: MSS 0868
Abstract

Martha L. Carothers is a book artist and professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware specializing in graphic design and book arts. The Martha L. Carothers student artists’ books collection comprises over 500 artists’ books created by students of Martha Carothers’ ART 309 course at the University of Delaware from 1983 to 2016. The collection documents thirty-four years of student projects in the application of book-arts concepts and techniques.

Dates: 1983-2016

Diary of Joseph Cleaver, Jr., kept at Delaware College

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0014
Abstract

This typed transcript of a diary kept by Delaware College student Joseph Cleaver for the period 1853-1854 describes student life at the college, the curriculum, and Cleaver’s involvement in the Athenaean Literary Society.

Dates: 1853 August 31-1854 November 21

Georgina M. Cooper copybook and poetry scrapbook

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0095
Abstract

This nineteenth-century copybook and scrapbook was kept by student (and later teacher) Georgina Maria Cooper of Hollandsville, Delaware. It contains pages of copied phrases completed when Cooper was in school, poetry clippings, copied lists of deaths and marriages in Kent County, Delaware, and a list of her students in 1871.

Dates: 1866-1900; Majority of material found within 1866-1871

Anne Daley autograph album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0013
Abstract

Anne Daley attended Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, in the 1950s. She kept this autograph album with signatures and inscriptions from her friends during her freshman year, 1956.

Dates: 1956

Guy Davenport letters

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0651
Abstract

Correspondence between American short story writer Guy Davenport and admirer and collector of his books Matthew Weseley, as well as a letter to students in Wesley's English class.

Dates: 1993-1996

F. D. Edgerton medical journal

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0025
Abstract

This medical journal was kept by Dr. Francis Daniels Edgerton for the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls and documents his diagnosis and treatment of the students' medical conditions from 1875 to 1883.

Dates: 1875-1883

Lee Anna Embrey student diaries

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0151
Abstract These three diaries were kept between 1927 and 1929 by Central High School (Washington, D.C.) student and aspiring writer Lee Anna Embrey. Embrey described in very detailed, descriptive, and articulate language the events of her life. She wrote about family members, friends, school lessons, thoughts, and aspirations, as well as budding relationships. The diaries focus particularly on high school activities such as clubs and social events, with a special emphasis on the journalism club (Quill...
Dates: 1927-1929

The Olio or miscellaneous writings of Isaac S. French, student of medicine

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0152
Abstract

The journal of Dr. Isaac S. French contains original poems, essays, and entries describing his daily activities as a medical student at Dartmouth, New Hampshire, and physician from 1854 to 1861. French also described his relationships with several women and the early years of his marriage.

Dates: 1853-1865; Majority of material found within 1853-1860

Charles Green mathematical notebooks

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0099
Abstract

Charles Green of Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, created these notebooks of mathematical rules and exercises around 1840-1841 to aid his study of practical geometry.

Dates: approximately 1840-1841

Compositions of Mary B. Griggs

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0577
Abstract

Reflective compositions written by student Mary B. Griggs during 1861-1864, while she attended Rutland Union High School in Vermont.

Dates: 1858-1864

Kent County, Delaware, School District 83 attendance records

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0047
Abstract

This volume and its associated materials contain attendance records from School District 83 in Kent County, Delaware. The records were kept from 1878-1879 and 1881-1883.

Dates: 1878-1879, 1881-1883

Notes on practice of medicine taken by S. P. Kerns from the lectures of J. M. DaCosta, M.D., L.L.D. Emeritus Professor of Practice of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia Pa.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0139
Abstract

These notebooks belonged to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, doctor Samuel Proctor Kerns and contain notes on lectures given by Jacob M. Da Costa at Jefferson Medical College from 1889 to 1891 on diseases of the nervous, circulatory, and respiratory systems.

Dates: approximately 1889-1891

Language exercises by students of Worcester, Massachusetts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0128
Abstract

Selected schoolwork in the subject of Language by first- through ninth-grade students from Worcester, Massachusetts. It was likely submitted to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dates: 1903-1904

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

Edith Gerselda Lynch autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0172
Abstract

This item is a 1935 autograph book that belonged to Edith Gerselda Lynch, a student in the class of 1937 at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware. The book contains signatures and messages from Lynch's friends, acquaintances, and family, including a signature from Howard High School teacher and librarian Pauline A. Young. The pages provide a glimpse of student life at a Delaware-based African American high school prior to desegregation.

Dates: 1935

Henry W. Marston daily journal for 1875

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0113
Abstract

The journal of Henry W. Marston chronicles his daily activities for 1875 as a student and a junior scribe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The entries include observations of the weather, schoolwork, travel, conversations, family events, and Marston's attendance of the Centennial Exhibition.

Dates: 1875

Meeting minutes of the education committee of the Trustees of the New Castle Common

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0093
Abstract

This manuscript volume contains the meeting minutes for the New Castle Common Trustees’ education committee from 1851-1853 and 1868-1875. The minutes focus on the establishment and maintenance of the New Castle Institute.

Dates: 1851-1853, 1868-1875

Daily journal of Milford High School

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0050
Abstract

This daily journal of Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts, contains autograph entries chronicling the daily thoughts and activities of its students in 1852.

Dates: 1852 January 24-October 22

Isaac F. R. Mulock lecture notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0140
Abstract

This volume contains notes taken by Issac F. R. Mulock of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during lectures given by Dr. Henry McMurtrie on physics and anatomy and by John S. Hart on the history of public schools in Philadelphia. McMurtrie's lectures were given in 1845 and Hart's were given at Central High School (Philadelphia) in 1847.

Dates: 1845-1851

Diary of George G. Needham

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0054
Abstract

This five-volume private diary documents the life of New York City resident George G. Needham, who began the diary at age thirteen and kept it until he was twenty-two, giving a description of the everyday life and physical geography of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.

Dates: 1855 April 19-1864 July 24

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