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Matlack family letters to Samuel J. Matlack, 1862-1865 (inclusive)

Extent:
17 item
Abstract:
This collection consists of seventeen letters written by members of the Matlack family in Philadelphia to Samuel J. Matlack while he was serving in the Union Navy aboard the USSWissahickon, a gunboat in the blockading squadron off the coast of South Carolina, during the American Civil War, from 1862-1865.

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

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Edward A. Fulton letters, 1860-1877 (inclusive) 1860-1863 (bulk)

Extent:
.3 linear foot (43 items)
Abstract:
This collection of correspondence consists of thirty-nine letters written primarily between 1860 and 1863. The majority of the letters were written by Union Army soldier Edward A. Fulton to his mother, Mary Fulton, of Wilmington, Delaware.

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

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David N. Lilley letters, 1861-1864 (inclusive)

Extent:
.3 linear foot (38 items)
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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.

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

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Pierce family papers, 1833-1954 (inclusive) 1862-1864 (bulk)

Extent:
.3 linear foot (48 items)
Abstract:
The Pierce family papers comprise materials relating to the Pierce family of New Castle, Delaware, from the early nineteenth century to the middle twentieth century. Most of the forty-eight items date from the American Civil War and provide a personal description of military life.

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

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Robert B. McKee papers, 1861-1901 (inclusive) 1861-1865 (bulk)

Extent:
.1 linear foot (66 items)
Abstract:
The Robert B. McKee papers consist of correspondence, military orders, medical supply inventories, casualty reports, and other material related to service as a surgeon in the 1st Delaware Calvary regiment during the Civil War.

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

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Nineteenth-century American military collection, 1846-1903 (inclusive) 1861-1865 (bulk)

Extent:
1.6 linear foot (3 boxes)
Abstract:
The Nineteenth-century American military collection is an artificial collection that contains 1.6 linear feet of American military records spanning the period 1846-1903. The bulk of the collection dates from the American Civil War (1861-1865). Additional records are from the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) and the remainder of the nineteenth century. There are also five items pertaining to the Mexican War (1846-1848) and two documents from the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers from 1856-1858. The records primarily document the administrative and bureaucratic logistics of waging a war and maintaining an army. Items include official correspondence between officers; orders; morning, trimonthly, and consolidated reports of unit manpower and supplies; food inspections; cargo and livestock manifests; provisions for supplies; and discharges and appointments of individual soldiers. Some personal letters (11 items) to and from Civil War soldiers are also present, as are a number...(see more)

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

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Frederic A. Blank papers, 1866-1991 (inclusive) 1917-1974 (bulk)

Extent:
2.5 linear foot (3 boxes)
Abstract:
The papers of centenarian, World War I veteran, and retired wall covering entrepreneur Frederic Blank, spanning close to 150 years, illustrate the varied life of a twentieth-century businessman and provide important sample books of iconic mid-twentieth-century American wall coverings.

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

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Paul W. Knauf, Jr. World War II photograph collection, 1943-1945 (inclusive)

Extent:
.2 linear foot (71 photographs)
Abstract:
The Paul W. Knauf, Jr. World War II photograph collection consists of seventy-one black and white photographs depicting events in the European Theater of Operations from 1943 through 1945. Fifteen of the photographs were created using the Army’s radio tele-photograph electronic-transmission system. In addition to the photographs, the collection includes newspapers, a certificate from the Bell Telephone Laboratories School for War Training, and an issue of the publication "Army Talks."

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

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Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers, 1792-1999 (inclusive) 1850s-1980s (bulk)

Extent:
7.6 linear foot (10 boxes)
Abstract:
The Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers contains twenty-six three-ring notebooks and nine folders of genealogical research notes, family photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century generations of Boyce's family lines from Delaware and Virginia. Boyce's research includes the Boyce, Justis, Morrow, Shreve, Wright, Brownley, Lawrence, Sebree, Adams, and Tuley families, as well as the family lines of his wife, Doris Jolls Boyce (including the Jolls, McColgan, Colge, Wise, Lutz, and Lorenz families). In addition to the genealogical focus of the collection, nine autobiographical scrapbooks document the family life of Truxton W. Boyce and his wife, Doris Jolls Boyce, who began their married life in 1942 in Newark, Delaware.

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

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