Form: Magazines (periodicals) - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Lucille Wallower papers, 1932-1975 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.6 linear feet
Abstract:: The papers of Pennsylvania children's author Lucille Wallower contain typewritten drafts and illustrations for many different works, including Colonial Histories: Pennsylvania, A Conch Shell for Molly, The Hippity Hopper: or, Why There Are No Indians in Pennsylvania, Indians of Pennsylvania, The Lost Prince: Louis XVII of France, The Morning Star, The New Pennsylvania Primer, Old Satan: A Pennsylvania Folk Tale, Your Pennsylvania, and others. Many of the works represented in this collection were created specifically for use in the classroom. The collection also contains magazine clippings of Marguerite de Angeli's work, which influenced Wallower.

Held at: Free Library of Philadelphia: Children's Literature Research Collection [Contact Us]

Allen Ginsberg poems and letters, 1959-1966, 1984 (inclusive)

Extent:: 17 item
Abstract:: Typescript poems, a published letter, a postcard written by Allen Ginsberg, and items related to the article "The Sound of Beat" published in the July 1959 issue of Playboy.

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

Barrie Stavis letters to Stanley Weintraub, 1971 march 25-1994 march 21 (inclusive)

Extent:: 33 item
Abstract:: Between 1971 and 1995, American playwright Barrie Stavis (1906-2007) wrote approximately 30 letters to historian Stanley Weintraub (born 1929) in which he discussed mutual friends, his writing projects, and their families.

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

Signatures archive, 1933-1972 (inclusive) 1935-1940 (bulk)

Extent:: 2.2 linear foot (6 boxes)
Abstract:: Co-edited by John Hinsdale Thompson and John Malcolm Brinnin and based in Detroit, Signatures was a literary magazine of "works-to-be-published-later" written by contemporary American and international writers. Subtitled "Work in Progress," Signatures was first published in the Spring of 1936 and continued for a total of three issues, ceasing publication in 1938.

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

Ulick O'Connor papers, 1904-1976 (inclusive) 1960-1974 (bulk)

Extent:: 7 linear foot (6 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection consists of material accumulated over a 25-year period by Ulick O’Connor: biographer, poet, playwright and journalist. O’Connor’s biographies of Brendan Behan and Oliver St. John Gogarty have been recognized internationally as definitive works. A large portion of the collection deals with materials for these books.

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

American propaganda collection, 1924-1962 (inclusive) 1950-1959 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 linear foot (1 box) and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: Collection of publications representing issues from the political right in the United States during the 1950s.

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

Everett C. and Louise Staton Johnson papers, 1835-1988 (inclusive) 1916-1958 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 linear foot (4 boxes and oversized material)
Abstract:: The Everett C. & Louise Stanton Johnson papers concern the personal affairs of prominent Delaware publisher and politician Everett C. Johnson (1877-1926) and his wife Louise Staton Johnson (1882-1977). In addition, the collection contains material from their Newark publishing house, the Press of Kells, which brought the Arts and Crafts Movement to the community from 1916 to 1918.

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

Edward Field papers, 1943-1994 (inclusive)

Extent:: 21 linear foot
Abstract:: The Edward Field papers consist of twenty-one linear feet of the personal and literary papers which document the life and writing career of American writer and poet Edward Field (b. 1924) from 1943–1994.

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

John E. Hart collection regarding Albert Halper, 1962-1988 (inclusive)

Extent:: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Correspondence relating to research and publication for Professor John E. Hart's essay "Albert Halper's World of the Thirties" (Twentieth Century Literature, v. 9:4, January 1964), and his book, Albert Halper (1978), part of the Twayne United States Authors Series. The collection contains both original correspondence and other material from Halper, as well as the correspondence Hart conducted with a number of individuals and institutions in connection with his research.

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

Chris Oakley collection of alternative press, 1968-1992 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear foot (1 box) and 2 oversize box (24 inches)
Abstract:: Chris Oakley was a longtime resident of Newark, Delaware, a community organizer and a strong advocate for media democracy. The Chris Oakley collection of alternative press consists of alternative press newspapers, community newsletters, magazines and ephemera related to from local to international communities, women's activism and local writers, as well as some personal papers.

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

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