Form: Essays - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Ella Harris nineteenth-century American scrapbook, approximately 1875-1895 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (approximately 50 pages)
Abstract:: This nineteenth-century American children's scrapbook bears the inscription "To Ella, Much Love from Edith and Edna." The scrapbook features trade cards; Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, and New Year's greeting cards; collectible scraps of flowers, animals, and children; one silk program for "Nunnemacher's Grand Opera" featuring a performance of Martha by the Milwaukee Philharmonic Society.

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

Clara Agnes Boulter mid-nineteenth century scrapbook from the American South, approximately 1843-1869 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (approximately 88 pages)
Abstract:: This antebellum and mid-nineteenth century scrapbook from the American South bears the name Clara Agnes Boulter on the inside front endpaper. The contents of this book are largely centered on ladies' manners, etiquette, advice, short stories, and fashion for women, though a significant component includes references to Confederate generals and Southern sympathies. Several items suggest the creator had ties to Texas and Virginia, and new clippings from Southern papers in Knoxville, Louisville, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Arkansas are found throughout the volume. The book features both fine and newsprint engravings, numerous news clippings of verse and articles, some original verse and art, and a few color prints. The volume includes two oval-cut albumen print photographs affixed to the pages, circa 1860s. One is of a house near a river with a water wheel and the second is of the Alamo in San Antonio.

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

Madness of rebellion : essay, 1864 april (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (5 pages)
Abstract:: This autograph essay by George P. Chase, a Union sympathizer, was written during the U.S. Civil War (1864) and criticizes the Confederacy on what he calls "the madness of rebellion."

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

Essay on slavery in England, approximately 1860-1890 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 item
Abstract:: This manuscript essay describes the legal history of slavery in England, focusing especially on the precedents for and limitations of the 1772 Somerset vs. Stewart decision.

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

Language exercises by students of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1903-1904 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (440 pages)
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.

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

Musical researches illustrating the influences of music upon mind and morals, religion, the passions, as a medicine, in war, and upon animals; with extracts from the sacred writers and the poets respecting music, and from the historians respecting its practice, 1835-1893 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (563 pages)
Abstract:: This volume contains over 500 pages of essays, research notes, and quotations written by Philip F. Snyder from 1835 to 1893 on the history, structure, and cultural influence of music. The material is evidence of a long-term, comprehensive study of music conducted by Snyder and consists mostly of passages, articles, and extracts copied from a wide variety of works.

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

The Olio or miscellaneous writings of Isaac S. French, student of medicine, 1853-1865 (inclusive) 1853-1860 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 volume (370 pages)
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.

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

The Delta Phi Literary Society at Delaware College from 1834 to 1859 : Essay, 1928 may 22 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 item (10 pages)
Abstract:: Consists of a handwritten essay by University of Delaware student Frank Mulderick for a course on Delaware History.

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

As I remember Main Street and History of the Newark Senior Center, 1984 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 item (9 pages)
Abstract:: Two typescripts, "As I remember Main Street" and "History of the Newark Senior Center," by Thomas Leonard Lilley on his memories of Main Street, Newark, Delaware, from 1900-1950 and on the history of Newark's senior center.

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

S. Marston Fox : 20th century civic leader, communist lobbyist and architect of parkland and historical preservation : typescript, 1984 january (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 item (38 pages)
Abstract:: One photocopy of a biographical essay and collection of documents relating to Delaware civic leader, lobbyist, and architect of parkland and historic preservation S. Marston Fox written shortly after his death in 1984.

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

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