Form: Broadsides (notices) - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Black Stone Press archive, 1974-1984 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 linear foot (5 boxes) and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: The Black Stone Press archive includes correspondence, galleys, negatives, broadsides, books, literary journals, ephemera, and business records from the twentieth century American press which document the short history of the imprint.

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

Waples family papers, 1753-1864 (inclusive) 1851-1864 (bulk)

Extent:: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)
Abstract:: The Waples Family Papers, spanning the dates 1753-1864, outline the family's role in the economic development of Milton in Broadkill Hundred, Delaware. But the bulk of the collection, 1851-1864, focuses on Gideon B. Waples, beginning with the pre-Civil War period when he was a student at Delaware College. After he voluntarily left his studies, he became a farmer and businessman in southern Delaware; he also served as a political aide to two governors of Delaware during the Civil War.

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

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook, 1909

Extent:: .3 linear foot (1 box)
Abstract:: The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger's trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

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

Townsend family papers, 1809-1920 (inclusive) 1833-1894 (bulk)

Extent:: .6 linear foot (2 boxes) and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: The Townsend family (of Delaware) papers consists of letters, accounts, and other business records, spanning the years 1809-1920, with the majority of the material falling between 1834 and 1894. The collection mainly consists of business letters sent to Samuel and John Townsend, political and personal letters sent to Samuel Townsend, and family correspondence, including twenty letters written by Edmund Townsend during the Civil War.

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

Autograph Abraham Lincoln documents from the Lincoln Collection at the University of Delaware, 1855-1887 (inclusive)

Extent:: 18 item
Abstract:: Documents in the University of Delaware's Lincoln Collection that contain Abraham Lincoln's original signature or other autograph writing, including rare signed copy of "A Resolution," submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States. Part of a much larger collection of Lincolniana that came to the University from the Lincoln Club of Delaware in 1972.

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

Sir Joseph Gold political and miscellaneous ephemera collection, 1960-1996 (inclusive) 1960-1970 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.6 linear foot (2 boxes) and 1 oversize removal (poster)
Abstract:: The attorney and author Joseph Gold was born in London, England, on July 12, 1912; he died on February 22, 2000, in Bethesda, Maryland. The Sir Joseph Gold political and miscellaneous ephemera collection comprises .67 linear feet of newsletters, pamphlets, posters, blank letterhead, and typed pages from the 1960s through the 1990s.

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

J. Ben Lieberman papers, 1902-1997 (inclusive) 1945-1984 (bulk)

Extent:: 66 linear foot, 9 oversize box, and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: Educator, editor, author, amateur printer, and proponent of the private press, J. Ben Lieberman is widely regarded as the father of the twentieth-century chappel movement in the United States. The J. Ben Lieberman Papers reflect some of the accomplishments of J. Ben Lieberman and his wife Elizabeth Koller Lieberman.

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

Sombre Reptiles Press records, 1977-1994 (inclusive) 1978-1982 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 linear foot (1 box)
Abstract:: The Berkeley, California-based Sombre Reptiles Press was founded in 1978 by poet Jerry Ratch and artist Mary Ann Hayden. This small collection consists of approximately one linear foot of material related to the operation of the press and the publication of its works, spanning the dates 1977 and 1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1977 to 1982.

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

Alan Brilliant correspondence with Ted Wilentz, 1960-1996 (inclusive) 1986-1988 (bulk)

Extent:: .7 linear foot (3 boxes) and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: This collection contains .7 linear feet of personal letters and postcards from Alan Brilliant of Unicorn Press to his former employer and longtime friend, proprietor of Corinth Books Ted Wilentz. Other materials include press catalogs, newsletters, financial records, clippings, periodicals, poems, and other printed ephemera related to the Unicorn Press.

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

Summer Brenner papers, 1962-2005 (inclusive)

Extent:: 22 linear foot (29 boxes)
Abstract:: The Summer Brenner papers offers a comprehensive view of an American poet and novelist's life across four decades beginning in the 1960s. The collection includes extensive personal correspondence and journals, literary manuscripts and drafts documenting all stages of the writing and publishing process, and Brenner's work from magazine contributions, book publications, and community projects.

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

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