Creator: University of Delaware - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 6 item (19 pages)
Abstract:: A collection of printed convocation and Women's College of Delaware programs and sports schedules from the University of Delaware dating from 1921 to 1936.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 39 1/4 inch audio tape
Abstract:: This collection features audiotape recordings of poetry readings and performances by American poets and University of Delaware professors. The collection contains poetry readings dating from 1953 to 1960 by Robert Hillyer, an influential poet and professor at the University of Delaware. There are also recordings of poetry readings, some broadcast by Delaware radio stations, by Wilbur Owen Sypherd, professor and administrator at the University of Delaware. The collection also features a reading by English actor Claude Rains and readings at the University of Delaware by American poets Robert Lowell and Robert Frost.

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Extent:: .3 linear foot (1 box) and 43.34 gigabyte
Abstract:: Oral histories and images collected at the event, "Preserving the Past: Gathering History & Mementos of the New London Road / School Hill Community," Saturday, May 20, 2017 and images collected at the event, "A Celebration for the New London Avenue School, One Hundred Years," Sunday, March 6, 2022. Established in 1867 as the first documented public school for African-American youth in the Newark, Delaware, community, the school and its surrounding property were also an important social and recreational meeting place for neighborhood residents.

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Extent:: 2 linear foot (4 boxes), 2 oversize box (2 oversize boxes (18 inch)), and 5 dvd
Abstract:: Richard F. Heck (1931-2015), namesake of the Heck Reaction, was an American chemist awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions. The Richard F. Heck papers, 1931-2012, comprise personal documents, photographs, professional honors and citations, publications, and material related to his 2010 Nobel Prize, including his Nobel diploma and a doctoral hat from Uppsala University (2011).

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