Date Posted: Friday, August 2nd, 2024

The Accessions Committee met on July 30, 2024, to review all proposed accessions received since the last quarterly meeting. All accepted donations have been pre-processed and assigned to archivists for further processing. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at the latest additions to our holdings.

New collections created:

  • Small Manuscript Collections, Delaware Industrial School for Girls, Documents (9200-D34-001)
    • This collection consists of deeds and court records concerning the property of the Industrial School, along with a book of its by-laws.
  • Small Manuscript Collections, George R. Lynam, Jr. Collection, Photographs (9200-L17-001)
    • Photos of the St. George’s Bridge under construction, postcards, and a few photos of the Howell School are included.
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A photo of the construction of St. Georges Bridge in 1941.
Small Manuscript Collections, George R. Lynam, Jr. Collection, Photographs
(9200-L17-001)

Existing collections expanded:

  • Small Manuscript Collections, Friends of the Delaware Archives, Administrative Records (9200-F09-001)
  • Small Manuscript Collections, New Castle County Paramedic Unit, Documents (9200-N08-001)
  • Small Manuscript Collections, Ridgely Collections, Baker Horsey Records (9200-R09-006)
  • Small Manuscript Collections, Denney Collection, Documents (9200-D23-001)
  • General Reference Collections, Pamphlet Collection (9270-000-004)
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Members of the New Castle County Paramedics unit posing with newly deployed “utility-style” paramedic response vehicles in 2006.
Small Manuscript Collections, New Castle County Paramedic Unit, Documents
(9200-N08-001)
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A page from the Employees’ Handbook of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company’s Nylon Division.
General Reference Collections, Pamphlet Collection
(9270-000-004)

Books added to the Mabel Lloyd Ridgely Research Room library:

  • Arriving in Delaware: The Italian-American Experience by Priscilla M. Thompson
  • Delaware Close to Home by Fred Comegys
  • Delaware in the Civil War edited by W. Emerson Wilson
  • Delaware Trees by William S. Taber
  • Ghost Stories of the Delaware Coast by David J. Seibold and Charles J. Adams III
  • One Hundred Years of Delaware Football by Elbert Chance
  • Rounding Third by Harvey Bernard Rubenstein
  • The Delaware Bay at War! The Coastal Defenses of the Delaware Bay during World War Two by Terrance McGovern
  • The Delaware Citizen by Cy Liberman and James M. Rosbrow
  • The Fisher Family published by the American Genealogical Research Institute
  • Two Hundred in Two Thousand published by the du Pont de Nemours Cemetery Company
  • Wild Delmarva by Kevin Fleming

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