Manuscript and Archival Collections

Manuscript and Archival Collections at the University of Delaware Library are managed in collection Call Number Series as listed below. An alphabetical list (by title of collection) is also available.

For review of the most recently available collection descriptions, please see What's New. Please contact Special Collections for assistance of any kind.

0093 Commonplaces, Albums, Scrapbooks

Items housed in this collection are albums, blank books, or scrapbooks in format, ranging in size from small handbooks to oversize folios. These volumes include commonplaces, copy books, friendship albums, autograph albums, scrap albums, scrapbooks, albums with sample trade cards, and other such blank books filled with collected items or text. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

Item 0001 Mallouk, Robert S., scrapbooks of World War II cartoons
Item 0002 Allen, William F., scrapbooks
Item 0003 Young, Anne Wheeler and William Young scrapbooks
Item 0004 Chew, Phyllis G., World War I scrapbooks
Item 0005 Dawson, Ann Fox, Project Jazz Festival scrapbook
Item 0006 Edgerton, Bertha and Ruth, scrapbooks
Item 0007 Notebook of handicraft instructions
Item 0008 Lindeman, Rachel Leah, album
Item 0009 Scrapbook of automobiles

Item 0010 Sargent, Emilie Hall, scrapbook of West Indies and South American cruise aboard R.M.S. Mauretania
Item 0011 Loyd, Mary Ann, autograph album and poems
Item 0012 Pitt family albums of poetry and Illustrations
Item 0013 Daley, Anne, autograph album
Item 0014 C. B. Cottrell & Sons Co. printing specimens and trade catalogs
Item 0015 Davids, Richard W., Centennial Exposition scrapbook
Item 0016 Jackson, John, albums of specimens of dried flowers and plants
Item 0017 World's Columbian Exposition scrapbook
Item 0018 Black, Lester F., sample book of calligraphic calling cards
Item 0019 Weck, W. F., scrap album of color printed perfume, cosmetic, and toiletry labels

Item 0020 Eccleston, Malva B., scrapbooks
Item 0021 Davis, Alma, Paragon autograph albums
Item 0022 English dyeing sample book
Item 0023 J. C. & Co. Inc., samples of dance orders, tickets, and menus
Item 0024 Dunn, Alice Goodsell, notes on British literature and theater scrapbook
Item 0025 Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" scrapbook
Item 0026 Children's scrapbook belonging to "A.R."
Item 0027 Nineteenth-century children's scrap album
Item 0028 Norman, Freddie, scrap album
Item 0029 Eclectic nineteenth-century British scrapbook

Item 0030 Harris, Ella, nineteenth-century American scrapbook
Item 0031 Nineteenth-century British scrapbook of greeting cards
Item 0032 Nineteenth century children's scrap album with photograph of two boys
Item 0033 Boulter, Clara Agnes, mid-nineteenth century scrapbook from the American South
Item 0034 Wright, Charles, Victorian scrap album
Item 0035 American scrapbook of Victorian chromolithographed art prints
Item 0036 Anderson, Harry, scrap album
Item 0037 Scrapbook of twentieth-century American Valentines and greeting cards
Item 0038 Early twentieth-century British children's scrapbook
Item 0039 Fred's nineteenth-century British album of scraps and greeting cards

Item 0040 Nineteenth-century scrapbook of theatrical, historical, royal, and artistic content
Item 0041 British scrapbook of the late Regency - early Victorian period
Item 0042 The Centennial scrap book
Item 0043 Joseph Willett 1856 eclectic scrapbook of engravings
Item 0044 British late-Victorian album with "Ally Sloper" characters and other scraps
Item 0045 The Jenny Lind album : a friendship album from Mary Ann De Souza to Esther Bolster

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0095 Miscellaneous Scientific & Humanities Manuscripts

Items housed in this collection include some of the oldest manuscripts in the University of Delaware Library, from a Babylonian cone or an Ottoman prayer book to early alchemical manuscripts acquired with the Unidel History of Chemistry Collection in 1968. Please ask for assistance in the Special Collections department.

Item 0032 Puymaurin, Jean-Pierre-Casimir de Marcassus, baron de, Receueil d'Observations

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0096 Account Books and Ledgers

Account books, ledgers, journals, and other record-keeping volumes of individuals, businesses, and organizations are housed in this collection. Many of these items are oversize. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

Item 0001 Account book for a Wilmington, Delaware, dry goods store
Item 0054 Janvier, John, account books for New Castle, Delaware
Item 0066 Donnell, Samuel M., insurance records for Newark, Delaware
Item 0067 Bancroft, Samuel, and Joseph Bancroft and Sons records
Item 0070 Mulligan, Michael, account books of Delaware City, Delaware
Item 0074 Horn, Charles S., ledgers
Item 0075 Horn, Charles S., Rehoboth, Delaware, Voter Registers and Tax Assessments
Item 0076 Russel, William, ledgers
Item 0080 Anderson, John, account book
Item 0081 Donnell, Samuel M., account books
Item 0147 Herdman, John David, Jr., Day Book

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0098 Delaware Miscellaneous Literary & Historical Manuscripts

Items housed in this collection are single manuscripts or small collections of documents related to Delaware. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

F0105 Hannum, Robert Marshall vs. the Wilmington City Railroad Co., papers regarding
F0130 Reading, Philip, Sermons on Various Subjects Preached at Apoquiniminck in the Year 1765
F0147 Layton, Caleb S., correspondence
F0149 Hull, John C., letters to John Thompson
F0150 Black, Robert M., docket book
F0154 Clay, Henry, presentation items
F0170 Ferguson, Robert, land indenture between Robert Ferguson, his wife Jane, and Joseph Kinkead, NewArk, New Castle County, Delaware
F0171 Wilkin, David, land indenture between David Wilkin, his wife Ann, and Jonathan Germain, Blacksmith, of Newark in White Clay Creek Hundred and County of Newcastle on Delaware
F0172 Howell, Ebenezer, land indenture between Ebenezer Howell and his wife Sarah, from Cumberland County, New Jersey, to William Armstrong of Newark, Delaware
F0173 Glasford, Hugh, land indenture between Hugh and Ann Glasford and Robert Ferguson for property in the White Clay Creek Hundred
F0174 Walter, John, land indenture between John Walter of Christiania Hundred, Delaware, and Joel Swaine of East Marlborough, Pennsylvania
F0175 Gilmour, Robert, letter to William Young
F0176 Ward, Christopher, letter to Marina Wister
F0177 Ross, William Henry Harrison, document appointing John A. Nicholson to be superintendent of schools in and for Kent County, Delaware
F0179 Wolkind, George, papers
F0183 Pedrick, Mark, letter to Adam Harbeson
F0184 Powell, Walter A. (Walter Anderson), letters to William P. Frank
F0185 Poole, J. Morton, letter to James Canby
F0186 Boggs, J. Caleb, letter to John M. Dawson

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