Accessions - 2018 - Delaware Public Archives

What Is An Accession?

According to The American Archivist, July 1974, an Accession is “(1) The act and procedure involved in a transfer of legal title and the taking of records or papers into the physical custody of an archival agency, records center, or manuscript repository. In records center operations, transfer of legal title may not be involved. (2) The material involved in such a transfer of custody.” The Delaware Public Archives receives new accessions regularly. The following list highlights some of the more interesting items that have arrived recently. To view a sample of the accessioned item(s), select the link where available:

2018 Accessions

Boyle Collection of 1200 Delaware postcards, photographs, and ephemera, 1892-1987, 0.57 cf. | RG 9200-B29-001
- Girl Scouts Unit Tent | Postcard of Loockerman St. | Guard Mount at Ft. DuPont ca 1905
Photographs and documents related to the career of William J. Kitchell, an aide to Admiral William Halsey during World War II, 1908-1959, 1.36 cf. | RG 9200-K05
- Kitchell, MacArthur and Nimitz tour the USS Missouri | Amiral Halsey and Bill Kitchell
Milford School Desegregation History Files, 1954-2004, 0.24 cf. | RG 9200-K06-001
Copy of 1898 List of Registered Voters, Milford, 8 pages. | RG 6140-000-025
Mosquito Control Scrapbook, 1942-1949, 0.1 cf. E. Elwood Lynch Papers, 1930-2000, 0.15 cf. CCC and Mosquito Control Photographs, 1933-1975, 0.48 cf. | RG 9200-L12-002
- CCC Survey Crew in Lewes | Lewes CCC Camp | POWs working at Dewey Beach
Nine glass plate negatives (Rehoboth and Kitts Hummock) taken by Clarence Sypherd, 1891 | RG 9015-024-000
- Bay Party at Kitts Hummock ca 1891 | Group photo at Kitts Hummock ca 1891
Magnolia Elementary School photographs, 1907-1965; Caesar Rodney High School documents and photographs, 1915-2001; photos of J. Ralph McIlvaine, 1930-1968; and a photo of Felton School, 1940; 0.3 cf. | RG 9200-F10
- Magnolia School’s 1915 graduation program | Magnolia School Grades 1-8 ca 1907
Of Wills and Testaments: A Common-Law Treatise. London, UK, 1703. | RG 9285-000-002
- First Page from Of Last Wills and Testaments, published 1703
Delaware Board of Health Mortality Statistics Reports, 1932-1940, 1 volume. | RG 1500-008-062
Robert H. Moor Journal, 1878, 0.04 cf. | RG 9200-M05-001
Seventeen postcards of Camden, Dover, and Wyoming. | RG 1325-003-207
- Early Apples in Wyoming | Charles Terry’s House in Camden | Brown’s Pharmacy in Camden
Photograph of the African American Civilian Conservation Corps unit at Bombay Hook, 1940. | RG 1325-003-036
- African American CCC 1940 Unit Photo
32 Civil War letters written by/to/about Sergeant Abram Draper of the 4th Delaware Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865. | RG 9200-D30-000
- Letter to Mrs. Draper on 7/25/1861 | Letter to Mrs. Draper on 7/28/1861

Accessions – 2018

What Is An Accession?

2018 Accessions

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