The Special Collections and Museums Collections Committee was formed in July 2019.\u00a0 Its members are librarians who acquire materials for Special Collections, the chief curator of the Museums, the curator of the Mineralogical Museum, the director of Special Collections and Museums as well as a member of the division, a faculty representative and, as of December 2019, a representative from the Library selectors.<\/p>\n
One objective of this committee is to keep faculty, students,and researchers at UD informed of what we are acquiring: to this end, we will distribute a list of selected recent acquisitions in January and August.\u00a0 Attached please find the first list of New Resources, as well as a Powerpoint of recent acquisitions by the Museums.\u00a0 These acquisitions reflect ongoing areas of collection development (see:\u00a0https:\/\/library.udel. Brown, William Wells, (circa 1814-1884). The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity.<\/em> Boston: Lea & Shepard, 1867.<\/p>\n William Wells Brown was a prominent abolitionist, lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian\u2014credited with publishing in the United States both the earliest novel and the earliest play written by an African-American.\u00a0 The Negro in the American Rebellion<\/em> is the first history devoted to African-Americans in the American Revolution, with detailed coverage of the Civil War as well.<\/p>\n Fellow Citizens!<\/em> [Massachusetts: s.l., 1842].<\/p>\n This abolitionist broadside was printed to call for a town meeting in reaction to the imprisonment of George Latimer, an escaped enslaved person who had been arrested in Boston. A subsequent series of trials led to his release. Public outrage over the case also furthered the abolitionist cause and led to increased attempts to amend Massachusetts state laws. This broadside is the only known extant contemporary broadside referencing Latimer and his case.<\/p>\n Miller, Kelly, (1863\u20131939). The Negro Sanhedrin: A Call to Conference<\/em>. Washington, D.C.: Murray Bros, 1923.<\/p>\n A prominent educator (dean of the Howard University School of Law), a prolific writer, and a close associate of W. E. B. Du Bois, Miller was the guiding force behind the short-lived Negro Sanhedrin, established in 1924 with the purpose of fostering cooperation and coordination among black organizations to form a unified voice for black America. This pamphlet promoted the Sanhedrin\u2019s first conference, which took place in Chicago on February 11, 1924, attended by 250 delegates representing 61 groups.<\/p>\n Pillsbury, Parker. Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles<\/em>. New Hampshire: Clague, Wegman, Schlicht & Co.<\/p>\n Published in Concord,\u00a0 New Hampshire, this book is a late nineteenth century first edition of the history of the abolitionist movement from a religious standpoint.<\/p>\n Pike, G. D. and J. B. T. Marsh. The Story of the Jubilee Singers<\/em>. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1876.<\/p>\n A documentary account of the famous “Jubilee Singers” with songs included; this edition also features a mounted Woodburytype photograph of the singers for its frontispiece.<\/p>\n Whitaker, Shirley Ann. Ashes to Ashes A Homecoming Celebration<\/em>\u2026\u00a0 Connecticut River Valley: SAW Press, 2018.<\/p>\n A limited edition of a fine press work numbered and signed by the artist\/author. This work by Dr. Shirley Ann Whitaker is a eulogy for the “thousands of lynching victims in the United States. Includes six engravings and a broadside.”<\/p>\n Six tintype portraits of African Americans, circa 1860-1870, six items<\/p>\n Study specimens of 19th century studio photographs of unidentified African Americans, location unknown.<\/p>\n Minute book of the Sarah White Home, 1900-1904, 1 volume<\/p>\n Minutes of meetings held by members of the Sarah White Home for Aged Colored Persons, later the Layton Home for Aged Colored Persons, in Wilmington, Delaware.<\/p>\n \u201cStop the Ku Klux Propaganda in New York\u201d. New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1921.<\/p>\n This broadside is part of a campaign waged by the NAACP during the 1920s, aimed at shutting down screenings of D.W. Griffith\u2019s popular film Birth of a Nation <\/em>due to the film\u2019s racist content. \u00a0<\/em>The document explains the film\u2019s damaging effect on the struggle for equal rights.<\/p>\n Coleman, Wanda, (1946-2013). Love-Ins with Nietzsche<\/em>. Fresno, CA: Wake Up Heavy, 2000.<\/p>\n Coleman was known as the \u201cunofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles.\u201d Subtitled \u201cA Memoir,\u201d this is one of the African-American poet\u2019s scarcest books, with only six copies reported by libraries worldwide.<\/p>\n Dunbar-Nelson, Alice. The Goodness of St. Rocque<\/em>. Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1899.<\/p>\n A first edition of the second book from teacher, poet, essayist, and activist Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935). A duplicate copy of one from her extant library currently held at the University of Delaware, this copy features the Library of Congress bookplate of Daniel A. P. Murray, the second African American to hold a professional position at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n Durham, John Stephens. Diane, Priestess of Haiti<\/em>, in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine<\/em>, LXIX, April 1902.<\/p>\n The only known appearance of this novel from author John Durham Stephens, assistant editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and U.S. Minister to Haiti from 1891 to 1893. This is a comparatively rare example of an early twentieth century African American work of fiction published in a mainstream magazine.<\/p>\n Fauset, Jessie Redmon. There Is Confusion<\/em>. Second printing. New York:\u00a0 Boni and Liveright, 1924.<\/p>\n This acquisition is a copy of the author’s scarce d\u00e9but novel.\u00a0\u00a0 Fauset, an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator, became one of the most important, yet often overlooked, figures of the Harlem Renaissance.<\/p>\n Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, (1825-1911). Atlanta Offering: Poems<\/em>. Philadelphia: George S. Ferguson, 1895.<\/p>\n This is the scarce first edition of a collection of poems by a prominent African-American writer, orator, and activist for civil rights, temperance, and equal rights for women\u2014causes she espoused in verse, fiction, and journalism while at the same time taking leadership roles in many progressive organizations.<\/p>\n Wright, Richard. Eight Men<\/em>. \u00a0<\/em>First edition. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1961.<\/p>\n A first edition of a set of short stories by Wright. Each story presents an aspect of a theme found in Wright\u2019s classic works: the struggle of African American men against oppressive social conditions.<\/p>\n Maran, Rene (1887-1960). Batouala<\/em><\/p>\n This translation (from French) is a limited edition of a once celebrated novel written by a Martinican author and published in France. The novel is an examination of the damaging effects of French colonialism in Africa. This is an illustrated, fine press edition of the novel,which was originally published in 1921.<\/p>\n I Don\u2019t Wanna Sound Racist But…<\/em>Los Angeles: Coloured Publishing Co., 2019<\/p>\n A collection of excellent digital collages by artist\u00a0 Devon Troy Strother,\u00a0 created for Coloured Publishing\u2019s exhibition \u201cA Mistake is a Beautiful Thing\u201d (2018) at Printed Matter bookstore in New York. Deals with themes of racism and racial identity in a manner that is always critical and often humorous.<\/p>\n The collection includes works by a number of significant playwrights of the seventeenth century.\u00a0 Among the highlights are three plays by Aphra Behn (the first English woman to earn her living by her writing), the first edition of John Dryden and William D’Avenant’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest<\/em>, and George Villiers’ satire on Dryden, The Rehearsal<\/em><\/p>\n George Cruikshank, 1792-1878.\u00a0 Illustrations for the first British edition of Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em>.\u00a0 [London: John Cassell, 1852].<\/p>\n Crukshank\u2019s illustrations to the London edition (1853) of Harriet Beecher Stowe\u2019s Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> were far superior to those found in the American edition and helped make the book as famous in Britain as it was in the United States. This is one of two known sets of proof wood-engravings, printed on India paper.<\/p>\n Frank, Robert, (1924-2018).\u00a0 The Americans<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Grove Press, 1959.<\/p>\n Robert Frank’s The Americans<\/em> changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In its 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface to reveal a people plagued by racism and ill-served by their politicians.\u00a0 Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life.<\/p>\n Heller, Christine. Women Vote! Fifteen New York State Suffragists: In Celebration of the 2017 Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in New York State<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Christine Heller, 2018.<\/p>\n Artist Christine Heller\u2019s limited edition portfolio celebrates suffragists who fought for seventy years to secure the vote for women. The project pairs lithographic images of fifteen suffragists with brief biographical texts printed in letterpress.<\/p>\n Kerouac, Jack, (1922-1969). Nosferatu (Dracula)<\/em>. [New York:] New Yorker Film Society, 1960.<\/p>\n The New Yorker Film Society was a pioneer in presenting rarely-seen and independent films with midnight screenings at the Charles Theater in the early 1960s. Kerouac\u2019s pamphlet\u2014a rare piece of ephemera\u2014served as the program notes for the classic 1922 silent film Nosferatu<\/em>.\u00a0 This copy was inscribed by Kerouac to the bookseller Robert Wilson.<\/p>\n Lawson, W. B. Lighting Lion, The Cajun Detective<\/em>. New York: Street & Smith, 1903.<\/p>\n A good example of an American “dime novel” in the first edition. These “dime novels,” like “yellow-backs” and “penny dreadfuls,” are considered precursors to the modern pulp and cheap paperbacks.<\/p>\n Letters to Jeanette Leonard Gilder, 1874-1915, circa 100 items<\/p>\n The pioneering American journalist and critic Jeanette Leonard Gilder (1849-1916) was born in Flushing, New York, and attended the Bridgeton Female Seminary. Gilder\u2019s literary career began when she joined the Newark Morning Register<\/em> in 1868, a paper established by her brother, Richard Watson Gilder (later editor-in-chief of Century Magazine<\/em>). She became literary editor of the New York Herald<\/em> in 1875, gaining notice for reviews and criticism of music, drama, and literature. Gilder and another brother, Joseph, founded The Critic<\/em> in 1881 and she contributed widely to numerous journals. Gilder edited several books of essays and collected literature, wrote plays, a novel, and memoirs of a literary life. She also served as an agent for authors and publishers. This collection reflects a range of editorial work.<\/p>\n Maeve Brennan papers, 1959-1966, 1.5 linear feet<\/p>\n Irish-American author and journalist Maeve Brennan (1917-1993) was known for her short stories and observations, characterized as writing with great \u201cpoetry of place.\u201d She was a regular contributor to The New Yorker<\/em> with pieces in \u201cTalk of the Town\u201d signed by \u201cthe long-winded lady.\u201d This addition of correspondence, financial documents, contracts, photographs and ephemera supports biographical and literary information about the author.<\/p>\n John Weiss papers and photographs, circa 1970-2010, 5 linear feet<\/p>\n Papers of photographer and University of Delaware art professor John Weiss (1941-2017). Known as an avid photographer of global cultures, Weiss\u2019s photography is found in collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the James A. Michener Art Museum. This archive complements a body of Weiss\u2019s photography in collections of the University of Delaware Museums.<\/p>\n[Poe, Edgar Allan]. The Rutland Herald<\/em>. Rutland, Vermont: Geo. H. Beaman, 1845<\/p>\n This newspaper includes a front page printing of Poe\u2019s poem, \u201cThe Raven.\u201d Printed just two weeks after the poem first appeared in The American Review, <\/em>this shows how the poem was rapidly disseminated throughout America.<\/p>\n Robert Friend papers, circa 1913-2009, 7 linear feet<\/p>\n Personal and professional papers of the American-Israeli poet and translator Robert Friend (1913-1998). American-born to Jewish-Russian immigrants in Brooklyn, Friend became a professor of English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was one of Israel\u2019s most influential English language poets in the 20th century and was a pioneer of gay literature.<\/p>\n The Assessment of Baltimore Hundred\u2026Sussex County, Delaware, circa 1824, 1 volume<\/p>\n This accounting book from Ebe (Ebenezer?) Walter, Assessor of Baltimore Hundred in Sussex County, Delaware, lists “valuations” for 1825 tax assessments of land, livestock, and more than one hundred enslaved persons of African descent counted as personal property by residents of Baltimore Hundred. It is an important record of the history of slavery in Delaware.<\/p>\n Thomas B. Malone World War II correspondence, 1941-1946, circa 300 items<\/p>\n Corporal Thomas B. Malone, a 1941 graduate of the University of Delaware, exchanged this correspondence with family members in Delaware while he was stationed in Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n Virginia Benvenuto U.S. Navy WAVES photograph album, 1943-1945, circa 200 photographs and clippings<\/p>\n This photograph album documents the training, barracks life, recreation, and work environment of Virginia Rose Benevuto (1921-2017), who enlisted in the WAVES in 1943 and served through 1945, mostly stationed at a naval hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n Alvah Bessie letters to Gabriel Miller, 1977-1984, .5 linear feet (and books)<\/p>\n American screenwriter, novelist, and journalist Alvah Bessie (1904-1985) was one of the \u201cHollywood Ten\u201d writers blacklisted by the movie industry in the 1950s for \u201cun-American activities.\u201d This collection of Bessie\u2019s books, photographs and movie ephemera, and correspondence with Rutgers professor and Hollywood Ten scholar Gabriel Miller reveals Bessie\u2019s thoughts on his career, politics, and contemporaries who struggled through the HUAC hearings.<\/p>\n Jerome O. Herlihy political campaign ephemera collection, 1876-2018, circa 2100 items<\/p>\n Delaware native and former Delaware Superior Court Judge Jerome O. Herlihy maintained an active connection to national and local politics throughout his life. The Jerome O. Herlihy political campaign ephemera collection spans over a century of United States and Delaware politics, and includes campaign buttons and pins, bumper stickers, a wide array of political artifacts, and paper ephemera.<\/p>\n E. B. Du Bois Clubs of America collection, 1964-1965, 8 items<\/p>\n This small collection of organizational ephemera reflects the manifestos and training system of the W. E. B. Du Bois Clubs of America, a youth group founded in San Francisco in 1964 by the Communist Party of the United States. College-based chapters contributed to radical student activism of the 1960s.<\/p>\n Harriet and Howard Kurtz anti-war collection, circa 1967-1969, 19 items<\/p>\n Based in Chappaqua, New York, the Rev. Mrs. Harriet Badenoch Kurtz and her husband Howard G. Kurtz, a WWII veteran, founded The War Control Planners, an organization advocating for world peace, international cooperation, and a war control system. The small collection comprises publications and ephemera generated by or about The War Control Planners.<\/p>\n Jack Jurden political and editorial cartoons collection, circa 1960-2010, 2.5 linear feet<\/p>\n Jack Jurden (d. 2015) created nearly four decades of daily editorial cartoons for the News Journal<\/em> of Wilmington, Delaware. His work was syndicated by more than 60 newspapers nationwide but provides an extensive perspective on Delaware politics and political figures. Professionally, Jurden had experience as a photo-engraver and art director, and was president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. The collection includes working reference files, sketches, and finished copies of his work.<\/p>\n Arias Montano, Benedictus. Humanae Salutis Monumenta<\/em>. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1572<\/p>\n The first edition of this emblem book. The engravings – which represent the history of human salvation – were a landmark in the art of book illustration. The engravings were produced by Abraham de Buyn, Pieter Huys, Jan Wierix, and Hieronymous Wierix, after drawings by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder and Crispin van den Broeck.<\/p>\n Brant, Sebastian. Stulifera Navis Mortalium.<\/em> Basel: Sebaastian Henricpetri, 1572<\/p>\n A Latin translation of Sebastian Brant\u2019s Das Narrenschiff<\/em>, a popular 15th century work that mocked and satirized the many human weaknesses and vices of his time. This edition is the first to print woodcuts by Tobias Stimmer.<\/p>\n Cesare, Vecellio. Habiti antichi et moderni<\/em>\u2026Venice: Appresso Gio. Bernard Sessa, 1598.<\/p>\n This expanded second edition of an early modern work of anthropology and fashion history features numerous woodcut illustrations depicting the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Americas from a European perspective. Vecellio was a cousin of Titian and worked in his workshop prior to 1548 before moving into publishing.<\/p>\n Uematsu, Yasushi[?]. Chosen dokatsuji mihon yonshu<\/em>\u2026Tokyo, Japan, June, 1916.<\/p>\n A Korean type specimen book compiled by printing scholar and librarian Yasushi Uematsu (1885-1945) and produced just six years after\u00a0 the Japan-Korea treaty of 1910 for a “Kokatsujibon Tenrankai” exhibition.<\/p>\n Photograph albums of San Francisco Pride parades, 1976-1995, 3 volumes<\/p>\n Photograph album of early East Coast Pride parades, 1972-1973, 1 volume<\/p>\n These four albums contain vernacular photographs of gay activism exhibited through Pride parades and marches on both the West and East coasts.<\/p>\n Soulellis, Paul. Queer. Archive. Work. 3<\/em>. Providence: Paul Soulellis, September 2019<\/p>\n This is the third in a series of experimental, collaborative publications bringing together a variety of queer artistic and literary methodologies. The contributors refuse normative narrative through techniques such as interference and refusal. The contents of the archive take various visual and textual forms.<\/p>\n Aarons, Philips and A A Bronson. Queer Zines<\/em>, vol 1. Second Edition. New York: Printed Matter Inc., 2013<\/p>\n This catalog \u201ccollects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from Europe and North America, and lists them alphabetically.\u201d The volume includes comprehensive bibliographies of queer zines, synopses, reprints of important articles about zines, a directory of queer zine archives, etc.<\/p>\n —.Queer Zines, vol. 2 New York: Printed Matter Inc., 2014<\/p>\n This volume contains bibliographies of over 120 titles, \u201cIncluding both an expanded focus on overlooked \u2018historical\u2019 publications dating from the early 70s onward, as well as extensive entries charting a new generation of queer zinesters, this second volume offers a broad survey of the vibrant and evolving medium.\u201d The volume also includes essays emphasizing the importance of independent queer publishing as a cultural agent.<\/p>\n 2020 January New Resources List (.pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Special Collections and Museums Collections Committee was formed in July 2019.\u00a0 Its members are librarians who acquire materials for Special Collections, the chief curator of the Museums, the curator of the Mineralogical Museum, the director of Special Collections and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 03:47:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10639,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions\/10639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/special\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}New Resources for Teaching and Research: A Selected List<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Special Collections Acquisitions – January 2020<\/h3>\n
African American History<\/strong><\/h4>\n
African American Literature<\/strong><\/h4>\n
British Art and Literature<\/strong><\/h4>\n[Bound collection of seventeenth century English plays]\n
American Art and Literature<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Delaware History<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>American History<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Printing History and Material Culture<\/strong><\/h4>\n
LGBTQ Materials<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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