Digital Collections Highlights

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Following the Civil War, Willard Saulsbury, Sr. served as Delaware senator in the U.S. Senate from 1858 until 1870 (defeated, interestingly, by his brother, Eli Saulsbury).  His son, Willard Saulsbury, Jr., also ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Within the Delaware Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts collection, there are several letters written by or to the famed Delawarean Caesar Rodney, who was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence. ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   While one of Delaware’s nicknames, Small Wonder, may be apropos, another nickname, the First State, suggests a state rich in history, extending back to colonial days. Fortunately for scholars and even amateur ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Thanks to a generous grant by the Friends of the Library, UD Library, Museums and Press staff in the Digital Initiatives and Preservation Department recently digitized the Reports of the Board of ...Read More

Beginning on August 1, 2024, all UD Library, Museums and Press digital collections currently housed on Artstor will seamlessly transition to JSTOR as the Artstor Digital Library website is officially retired.  To access digital collections currently hosted on Artstor, users ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Those familiar with the local area know of Kirkwood Highway (Route 2), a major service and commercial artery of northern Delaware. Its namesake is Captain Robert Kirkwood of Newark, who was a ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Willard Stewart (1915-2003), one of Wilmington, Delaware’s most prominent professional portrait photographers, became the primary photographer for the Delaware Federal Writers’ Project and photographed numerous Delaware buildings and landscapes. These photographs document ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Art historian W. Barksdale Maynard recently submitted a collection of photographs to the Library, Museums and Press that relates to architectural history, or the study of the trends, aesthetics, technology and importance ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   As the state of Delaware was once rather agrarian—and the southern portion still is—it may come as no surprise that the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press has a rather healthy ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   The road to women’s suffrage was not an easy one. As women fought for the right to vote and to actively participate in American politics and democracy, they were also working toward ...Read More