Date Posted: Friday, May 1st, 2026

The Accessions Committee met on April 15, 2026, 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.

Existing Collections Expanded:

General Reference Collections, General Reference Files (9270-000-001)

  • USS Delaware (SSN-791) commissioning ceremony invitation

Small Manuscript Collections, robin brown Collection, Documents (9200-B35-001)

  • USS Delaware Ladies’ Home Journal print
  • Delino DeShields, Dave May, and Dallas Green baseball cards
  • Admission ticket for Ogletown Junior High show
  • “Delaware 1976, Calendar of Events, July-December” pamphlet

Small Manuscript Collections, robin brown Collection, First State Covers, Postcards, and Stamps (9200-B35-002)

  • Lafayette, Delaware Tercentenary, Benjamin Banneker, and Phillis Wheatley stamps
  • Postcards of Hagley, Wilmington, Lafayette, Rehoboth Bay, Delaware colleges and universities, Brandywine Park, and the Washington & Wilmington Railroad
St. George's bridge.
St. George’s bridge. (From 9200-B35-003).
USS Delaware (SSN-791) commissioning ceremony invitation.
USS Delaware (SSN-791) commissioning ceremony invitation. (From 9270-000-001).

Small Manuscript Collections, robin brown Collection, Photographs and Portraits (9200-B35-003)

  • Photographs of the USS Delaware battleship, St. George’s bridge, Annie Jump Cannon, and The News Journal’s coverage of Former-President Joe Biden’s inauguration

Works Progress Administration, Historical Records Survey, Subject Files (0740-000-006)

  • Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, A, and B of the “Inventory of the Church Archives of Delaware”

Department of State, Delaware Public Archives, Motion Picture Collection (1325-003-226)

  • Delaware State Fair Centennial Celebration film

Military Records, Delaware National Guard, Enlistments (1800-000-018)

  • Enlistment book for the First Regiment of the Delaware Volunteer Militia from the 1880s

New to the Research Room:

  • Colonial Black and Indigenous Cultural Leaders by John Fitzhugh Millar
  • Delaware Behaving Badly: First State, True Crimes by Dave Tabler