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- Items housed in this collection are albums, blank books, or scrapbooks in format, ranging in size from small handbooks to oversize folios.
- Account books, ledgers, journals, and other record-keeping volumes of individuals, businesses, and organizations are housed in this collection.
- The diaries, journals, and ships' logs housed in this collection are personal narratives and records acquired singly by the University of Delaware Library.
- Papers of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1895-1942)
- The Lewis Family Papers consist of three linear feet of material related to this Newark, Delaware, farming family, who also owned property in Little Creek Hundred in Kent County, Delaware. Material in the collection dates largely from the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Members of the family were farmers and large landholders who maintained business relations with many prominent citizens of early Newark, such as George Platt, Samuel Donnell, James T. Maxwell, and Eri Haines. The collection sheds light on domestic and business issues during the time period. It also demonstrates trends in education, politics, and land dealings.
- The Pauline A. Young collection largely contains material either gathered or written by Pauline Young, much of which relates to Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Paul Laurence Dunbar. The collection itself consists of correspondence, periodical clippings and photocopies, photographs, brochures, programs, and ephemera. The collection is divided into four series: I. Correspondence, II. Articles and publications, III. Biography, and IV. Ephemera.
- The papers of the Wilson family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Newark, Delaware, consist of 1.35 linear feet of material relating to four generations of direct descendents of Edward Wilson, Esq., of Elm’s Farm, near Liverpool, England.
- Papers of U.S. Senator from Delaware J. Allen Frear, Jr. (1917-1963)
- The Politics series covers the years 1895 to 1925 when Saulsbury was most involved in state and national politics. The bulk of these files fall in the years 1912 to 1923 covering the period from Saulsbury's election to the U.S. Senate to the peak of his activity as an independent statesman representing the U.S.
- Letters, photographs, and an unidentified manuscript fragment from novelist, poet, and teacher, Arlo Bates, as well as letters written by his father-in-law, George L. Vose, a former professor of Civil Engineering at Bowdoin College.
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- Volume of architectural and furniture design drawings by English architect John Yenn created between the 1760s and 1790s
- Gregory C. Wilson is a white collector and dealer of antiquarian material. The Gregory C. Wilson collection of postcards and trade cards depicting stereotypes of African Americans contains over 450 items, the majority of which are examples of negative stereotypes and racist portrayals of Black people in general and African Americans specifically.
- Items housed in this collection are single manuscripts or small collections of documents related to Delaware.
- Diplomatic and professional papers of George S. Messersmith (1883-1960). Consists of correspondence, memoranda, and official dispatches written during Messersmith’s tenure with the U.S. Department of State, as well as during his subsequent business career.
- The Gertrude Käsebier papers consist of a small amount of handwritten and typed reminiscences, typed transcripts of the original handwritten material, and newspaper clippings collected by immediate family members to document the personal experiences of the noted American pictorial photographer.
- Interviews with 317 Delawareans conducted between 1966 and 1978 cover topics including the following: educators, immigrants, journalism, politics, and the University of Delaware, Delaware in the Depression, and the 1950s relocation of Long Island and New Jersey potato farmers to Delaware.
- This collection consists of correspondence (1905-1910) to and from Edwin S. Cramp during and after his term as President of the Standard Arms Company, which operated out of Wilmington, Delaware.
- The collection contains musical manuscripts from the personal music library of early twentieth century Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes.
- This collection of correspondence consists of thirty-nine letters written primarily between 1860 and 1863. The majority of the letters were written by Edward A. Fulton to his mother, Mary Fulton, of Wilmington, Delaware.
- Letters from Delaware resident David N. Lilley to his sister Annie, written during his period of service in the Union Army during the Civil War.