Special Collections Department
Pearl Herlihy
Daniels
Map Collection
Papers
1938 - 1993
(bulk dates 1968 - 1993)
Manuscript Collection Number: 400
Accessioned: Gift of Thomas Herlihy
III, August 19, 1999
Extent: 2 linear ft.
Content: Correspondence, ephemera,
photographs, clippings, research notes, articles and presentations
Access: The collection is open for research.
Processed: January 2001 by
Laura Cochrane
Special Collections, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267
(302) 831-2229
Table of Contents
Biographical Note
Pearl Herlihy Daniels (1910-1994) was born Pearl Glenn in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Wilmington High School in 1927 and married her first husband, Thomas Herlihy, Jr., the following year. They began their married life in Massachusetts while Thomas completed his law degree at Harvard. The couple returned to Wilmington in the early 1930s, where Thomas set up a law practice and entered into local politics. He became the city’s mayor in 1945, but resigned the following year to accept a judgeship in the municipal courts. Although her husband left politics, Pearl continued to work for a number of local causes. In 1949, she was appointed to a committee to modernize Wilmington’s city charter and in the 1950s, she chaired Delaware’s State Labor Commission, which later became the State Labor Department. In the latter post, she fought to improve the working conditions of migrant laborers. Daniels was also an activist at the state level for stronger narcotics laws. On the national front, she was mainly involved in issues related to children. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower appointed her Chairwoman for the National Commission on Children and Youths; and during the 1960s, she was appointed to the Committee on Youth Employment and the National Citizens Commission for Community Relations by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson respectively. Although not herself a lawyer, Pearl became a partner in her husband’s firm, Herlihy & Herlihy, where she worked until 1980, three years after her husband’s death. In 1980, Pearl married her second husband, Charles E. Daniels.
Besides her many political interests, Pearl Herlihy Daniels was also an avid collector of maps of Delaware and the surrounding region. For the 30 years before her death, she collected energetically and created a substantial collection of nearly 200 maps, atlases, and books related to the history and cartography of Delaware. Her interest in maps extended to the history of mapmaking and to the study of early surveying techniques and exploration. In addition to collecting Delaware-related maps, Daniels sought out the works of important early cartographers, especially their maps of the New World.
Source:
John Ward, "Pearl Herlihy Daniels, civic leader and Delaware Women's Hall of Fame member," Wilmington News Journal (December 11, 1994), B5.
Scope and Content Note
Pearl Herlihy Daniels’s sons, Thomas Herlihy III and The Honorable Jerome O. Herlihy, donated the Pearl Herlihy Daniels Map Collection to the University of Delaware in 1998. Her collection now makes up a significant portion of the Library’s Historic Map Collection. The gift included the supporting documentation for Daniels’s collecting activities. These materials contain her correspondence with dealers, other map collectors, and scholars as well as the catalogs she created to organize her collection. They also document Daniels’s research interests. Daniels lectured on both the early cartography of the Delaware region and on map collecting as a hobby. Her papers include her research notes, clippings from newspapers and magazines, manuscripts of her presentations and writings, and slides and copy photographs that she used in her talks and for publication.Arrangement Note
The Pearl Herlihy Daniels Map Collection Papers have been divided into two series. Series I contains materials related to Pearl Herlihy Daniels’s activities as a collector, including correspondence with dealers and her collection inventories. The correspondence and receipts are organized chronologically. Series II contains materials related to her research and scholarly pursuits and is organized according to subject and genre type.
Series List
I. Map collecting materials
1 Correspondence
2. Dealer catalogs and ephemera
3. Catalogs and inventories
II. Writing and research
1. Material related to the Delaware
Academy of Science Symposium, Science and
Archaeology, November 6, 1975
2. Pearl Herlihy Daniels’s research notes on
maps and Delaware organizations
3. Clippings and Xeroxes and Ephemera related to
maps, exploration, surveying and map
collecting
4. Xerox of dissertation chapter: “Survey of
maps of the Delaware Bay region prior to
1840”
5. Ephemera related to maps and to Delaware
History
6. Photographs
Contents List
Box -- Folder -- Contents
1 Series I. Map Collecting Materials
Includes correspondence with libraries, scholars,
and map dealers; dealer catalogs and ephemera; and
Pearl Herlihy Daniels’s catalogs and inventories
of her collection.
Series I.1 Correspondence
Correspondence with libraries, scholars, and map
dealers, including the University of Delaware
Library, John Brown Library, Providence, Rhode
Island; William L. Clements Library in Ann Arbor,
Michigan; the Library of Congress; the Huntington
Library, San Marino, California; Howard Rice;
Henry L. Sholly; W. Graham Arader III, rare maps,
books and prints; Philadelphia Print Shop; and the
Windsor Collection. The correspondence relates to
purchasing maps or map reproductions and to
Daniels’s historical interests in maps and the
history of Delaware.
F1 1938, 1959, 1970-1976
F2 1977-1979
F3 1983
F4 1984-1991, n.d.
F5 Correspondence and paperwork
related to the University of Delaware Library
Exhibition, Delaware Collects, 1990
Series I.2 Dealer catalogs and ephemera
Catalogs and ephemera from various dealers and
publishers, including National Ocean Survey,
Library of Congress, Windsor Collection, and
Kenneth Nebenzahl.
F6 National Ocean Survey. Catalog of Early
Nautical Charts, 1975.
F7 Library of Congress Catalogs:
Facsimiles of Rare Historical Maps: a
list of reproductions for sale by
various publishers and distributors.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
geography and map division, 1968
Facsimiles of Rare Historical Maps: a
list of reproductions for sale by
various publishers and distributors.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
geography and map division, 1980.
F8 The Windsor Collection. Maps and
Atlases, supplement to catalog 5.
Wilmington, n.d.
F9 Kenneth Nebenzahl, Inc. catalogs
The Atlases of the American Revolution,
catalog 29. Chicago, 1974.
Prints and Maps of the American
Revolution, catalog 32. Chicago, 1976.
F10 Ephemeral materials related to map dealers
F11 Ephemeral materials related to map dealers
2 Series I.3 Catalogs and inventories
Pearl Herlihy Daniels’s personal catalogs and
inventories for her map collection. The cards and
lists contain detailed information about
individual maps. She organized her catalogs
chronologically.
F12 Card catalog (folder 1)
F13 Card catalog (folder 2)
F14 Card catalog (folder 3)
F15 Loose leaf catalog (folder 1)
F16 Loose leaf catalog (folder 2)
F17 Loose leaf catalog (folder 3)
F18 Loose leaf catalog (folder 4)
F19 Lists of maps in collection
3 Series II. Research and writing
In addition to her work collecting, Pearl Herlihy
Daniels also pursued her own research interests in
Delaware maps, the history of cartography and in
surveying equipment and techniques. This part of
the collection includes her manuscripts for talks
and articles, clippings and Xeroxes for her
research files, research notes, and copy slides
and prints of her own maps and maps from various
repositories.
Series II.1 Material related to the Delaware
Academy of Science Symposium, Science and
Archaeology, November 6, 1975
Pearl Herlihy Daniels gave a paper at the Delaware
Academy of Science Symposium, Science and
Archaeology on November 6, 1975. Her paper was
entitled, “The Evolution of Delaware Cartography
to 1800 – Early Maps.” It was published that year
in the Academy’s publication, Transactions of the
Delaware Academy of Science 75. This sub-series
contains her manuscripts for the talk and the
article as well as an offprint of the published
paper.
F20 Correspondence related to the
Delaware Academy of Science Symposium,
Science and Archaeology, November 6, 1975
F21 Manuscripts of presentations and
articles for the Delaware Academy of Sciences
Symposium, 1975
F22 Typescripts of presentation and
article for the Delaware Academy of Sciences
Symposium, 1975
F23 Offprint: Pearl G. Herlihy. “The
Evolution of Delaware Cartography to 1800 –
Early Maps.” Transactions of the Delaware
Academy of Science 75 (1974 and 1975): 163-
188.
Series II.2 Pearl Herlihy Daniels’s research notes
on maps and Delaware organizations
Includes hand written notes related to Delaware
maps, Xeroxes of typed lists related to the
history of Wilmington and Wilmington
organizations.
F24 Loose notes related to maps
F25 Loose notes related to maps
F26 Notes about the Wilmington City federation of
women’s clubs and allied organizations
F27 Notes related to the history of Wilmington
F28 Legend for 1874 bird’s-eye view map of
the city of Wilmington
F29 List of maps in the Wilmington Institute
Library
F30 Minutes of the meeting held by the State
Boundary Commission, 1974 and photographs of
the Mason-Dixon Line stone on Fenwick Island
4 Series II.3 Clippings and Xeroxes and Ephemera
related to maps, exploration, surveying and map
collecting
Clippings and Xeroxes of newspaper, magazine and
academic journal articles related to the history
of maps, surveying history and exploration.
F31 Offprints and xeroxed articles related
to Pearl Herlihy Daniel’s collecting
interests
F32 Cuttings from magazines: articles related to
Pearl Herlihy Daniel’s Collecting interests
F33 Newspaper clippings related to maps, 1950-
1978
F34 Newspaper clippings related to maps, 1979-
1991
Series II.4 Xerox of dissertation chapter: “Survey
of maps of the Delaware Bay region prior to 1840”
Chapter of an unidentified dissertation.
F35 Xerox of a dissertation chapter, “Survey of
maps of the Delaware Bay region prior to
1840” (no author cited)
Series II.5 Ephemera related to maps and to
Delaware History
Brochures and pamphlets from various Delaware
organizations and map collections
F36 Delaware ephemera
F37 Delaware ephemera
F38 Ephemera related to maps and historical
societies
5 Series II.6 Photographs
Copy prints and slides of maps from the Pearl
Herlihy Daniels Collection and maps and surveying
equipment from other repositories, including the
William L. Clements Library in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem,
Massachusetts. The slide collection also includes
photographs of Delaware sights (Pea Patch Island,
Mason Dixon Line, and Hill Top Center) taken by
Pearl Herlihy Daniels and commercially produced
slides of European sights (Rome and Istanbul) and
artworks. Daniels’s used the photographs for
publication, lectures, and research purposes.
F39 Copy prints made for research and publication
(folder 1)
F40 Copy prints made for research and publication
(folder 2)
F41 Copy prints made for research and publication
(folder 3)
F42 Copy prints made for research and publication
(folder 4)
F43 Copy negatives made for research and
publication
6
Slide box 1 Copy slides of maps from the Pearl
Herlihy Daniels Collection and from various
map repositories
Slide box 2 Slides of Delaware sights (Pea Patch
Island, Mason Dixon Line, and Hill Top
Center) taken by Pearl Herlihy Daniels and
commercially produced slides of European
sights (Rome and Istanbul) and artworks.
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