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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Emily Shore journals
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0104
Abstract
These three manuscripts are the seventh, tenth, and twelfth of twelve journal volumes created by a young Englishwoman named Emily Shore (1819-1839). Shore wrote these journals between October 1836 and July 1839, while she traveled around southern England, the Channel Islands, and Madeira, before dying of tuberculosis in Funchal, Madeira.
Dates:
1836-1839