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• History of the State of Delaware (3 volumes; Wilmington, DE: The author, 1908), by Henry C. Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of Delaware Portraits (Delaware State Portrait Commission, 1941), by Delaware. State Portrait Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches of prominent Delawareans. (The Historical Society of Delaware, 1901), by Samuel W. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Delaware. 1609-1888 (L. J. Richards & co., 1888), by J. Thomas Scharf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware (Chambersburg, Pa., 1899), by J.M. & Co Runk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address on the life, character, and services of Com. Jacob Jones. Delivered in Wilmington Tuesday, December 17, 1850. (Wilmington, Del., 1851), by John M. Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Delaware : 1609-1888 (L. J. Richards, 1981), by J. Thomas Scharf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware, a history of the first state (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1947), by H. Clay Reed and Marion Björnson Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Delaware, past and present (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, inc., 1929), by Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Edwin Melvin Williams, and Lewis Historical Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silversmiths of Delaware, 1700-1850 (National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Delaware, 1939), by Jessie Harrington and National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Delaware (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Who's who in New Jersey : a biographical dictionary of leading living men and women of the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia (A.N. Marquis Company, 1939), by Albert Nelson Marquis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Catalogue of Delaware Portraits (Delaware State Portrait Commission, 1941), by Delaware. State Portrait Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses delivered at the formal presentation of the portraits of the governors of Delaware to the state, Thursday, May 26th, 1898, State capitol, Dover, Delaware. (Press of the Delawarean, 1898), by Charles W. Whiley, James Pennewill, Henry Clay Conrad, and Delaware. General Assembly Joint Committee on Presentation of Portraits of Governors (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences (s.n., 1911), by Manlove Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)

• 1836. Semi-centennial memoir of the Harlan & Hollingsworth company, Wilmington, Delaware, U. S. A. 1886. ([Wilmington], 1886), by Wilmington Harlan & Hollingsworth corporation and Harry Taylor Gause (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Wilmington, in familiar village tales, ancient and new. (Johnston & Bogia, 1872), by Elizabeth Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semi-Centennial memoir of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. 1886. (s.n., 1886), by Del.) Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation (Wilmington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Wilmington : in familiar village tales, ancient and new (T.K. Collins, Jr., 1851), by Elizabeth Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)

• The early and later Delaware Baptists (American Baptist Publication Society, 1880), by Richard B. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Address of Abraham Johnstone, a Black Man, Who Was Hanged at Woodbury, in the County of Glocester, and State of New Jersey, on Saturday the 8th Day of July Last, To the People of Colour; To Which Is Added His Dying Confession or Declaration; Also, a Copy of a Letter to His Wife, Written the Day Previous to His Execution (Philadelphia: The Purchasers, 1797), by Abraham Johnstone (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon, Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York (Jersey City: W. W. & L. A. Pratt, Printers, Sentinel Buildings, 1853), by Levin Tilmon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
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• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
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• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America (London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, et al., 1825), by Solomon Bayley, ed. by Robert Hurnard
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• A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America (second edition; London: Harvey and Darton, 1825), by Solomon Bayley, ed. by Robert Hurnard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon, Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York (Jersey City: W. W. & L. A. Pratt, Printers, Sentinel Buildings, 1853), by Levin Tilmon (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Addresses delivered at the formal presentation of the portraits of the governors of Delaware to the state, Thursday, May 26th, 1898, State capitol, Dover, Delaware. (Press of the Delawarean, 1898), by Charles W. Whiley, James Pennewill, Henry Clay Conrad, and Delaware. General Assembly Joint Committee on Presentation of Portraits of Governors (page images at HathiTrust)

• Addresses delivered at the formal presentation of the portraits of the governors of Delaware to the state, Thursday, May 26th, 1898, State capitol, Dover, Delaware. (Press of the Delawarean, 1898), by Charles W. Whiley, James Pennewill, Henry Clay Conrad, and Delaware. General Assembly Joint Committee on Presentation of Portraits of Governors (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coming Negro (Dover, Del. : B.F. Simmons, Jr., [1906], 1906), by A. Joseph Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial address on the life and character of Willard Hall (Historical Society of Delaware, 1879), by Daniel M. Bates (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences (s.n., 1911), by Manlove Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Delaware doctors. (The Historical Society of Delaware, 1897), by Thomas C. Stellwagen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of the life of Nathaniel Luff, M.D. of the state of Delaware : text (Clark & Sickels, 1848), by Nathaniel Luff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of the life of Nathaniel Luff, M.D. of the state of Delaware : text (Clark & Sickels, 1848), by Nathaniel Luff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of the life of David Ferris : an approved minister of the Society of Friends, late of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware (Merrihew & Thompson's Steam Power Press, 1855), by David Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Practical arithmetic, in four books ... adapted to the commerce of Ireland as well as that of Great-Britain ... (Printed; Wilmington [Del.] Re-printed by P. Brynberg, 1800), by John Gough, Peter. Wilmington Brynberg, W. Atkinson, and Robert Telfair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware. (Historical Society of Delaware, 1879), by Historical Society of Delaware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the state treasurer. (Dover [etc.], 1877), by Delaware. Treasury Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Lenâpé-English dictionary : From an anonymous ms. in the archives of the Moravian Church at Bethlehem, Pa. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1888), by Daniel G. Brinton, Albert Seqaqkind Anthony, David Zeisberger, and Historical Society of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allied families of Delaware : Stretcher, Fenwick, Davis, Draper, Kipshaven, Stidham ([publisher not identified], 1901), by Edwin Jaquett Sellers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware; a guide to the first state (Viking press, 1938), by Delaware Federal Writers' Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1922), by Edward Noble Vallandigham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flora of Delaware and the Eastern Shore; an annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of the peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. (Society of Natural History of Delaware, 1946), by Robert R. Tatnall (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Crane Hook church, predecessor of the Old Swedes' church at Wilmington, Delaware (The Historical Society of Delaware, 1895), by Pennock Pusey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original land titles in Delaware commonly known as the Duke of York record, being an authorized transcript from the official archives of the state of Delaware, and comprising the letters patent, permits commissions, surveys, plats and confirmations by the Duke of York and other high officials, from 1646 to 1679. (Sunday star print, 1903), by Delaware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characteristics of physicians. Delaware (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration, Bureau of Health Manpower, 1975), by United States. Health Resources and Services Administration. Bureau of Health Professions. Office of Data Analysis and Management, United States. Health Resources Administration. Bureau of Health Professions, American Medical Association. Survey & Data Resources, Center for Health Policy Research (American Medical Association), United States. Public Health Service. Bureau of Health Manpower, and Center for Health Services Research and Development (American Medical Association). Department of Health Systems Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered at the Jamestown exposition on Delaware day, October 9, 1907 (The Historical society of Delaware, 1907), by James Pennewill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware state health profile (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the 20th century), by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report: phase 2 (1998) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Swedish settlements on the Delaware : their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664 : with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain the colony (University of Pennsylvania ;, 1911), by Amandus Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographic area series, Delaware (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census :, 1984), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of Delaware (The author, 1908), by Henry C. Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• State Treasurer's report 1916/1917-1936/1937 (Treasury Dept.], 1917), by Delaware. Treasury Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the State Treasurer for ... 1911/1912-1915/1916 (publisher not identified], 1905), by Delaware. Treasury Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trend of agriculture in the state of Delaware. ([Ithaca, N.Y.], 1926), by George E. Michael (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thousand acre marsh; a span of remembrance. (Macmillan, 1959), by Dudley Cammett Lunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agricultural bulletin. (State of Delaware, Dept. of Agriculture., in the 20th century), by Delaware. Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard specifications for road and bridge construction, June 1, 1965. (Dover, 1965), by Delaware. State Highway Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard specifications for road and bridge construction. (Dover, 1970), by Delaware. State Highway Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard specifications for highway construction. (Dover, 1960), by Delaware. State Highway Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Occupational employment statistics, selected manufacturing industries, Delaware <1980> (Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation, in the 20th century), by Research & Evaluation Delaware. Department of Labor. Office of Planning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware occupational employment statistics, selected non-manufacturing industries (Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation, in the 20th century), by Research & Evaluation Delaware. Department of Labor. Office of Planning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware corporations and receiverships : containing the general corporation law of the state of Delaware, Franchise tax law, statutes and rules of court governing receiverships, and forms for organizing corporations : annotated with all pertinent decisions in all American jurisdictions (Corporation Service Co., 1932), by Josiah Marvel and Christopher Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware school code, 1919. (Milford Chronicle Pub. Co., 1919), by Delaware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dynamic implicit numerical model of one-dimensional tidal flow through inlets ([U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station] ;, 1991), by Michael Amein, Nicholas C. Kraus, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the state of Delaware as set forth by the command of the governor and his commissioners to the Jamestown exposition. (G.A. Wolf], 1907), by Jamestown Exhibition Delaware. Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Financial report (Milford Chronicle Pub. Co., 1942), by Delaware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of cases decided in the Court of Oyer and Terminer and the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of the State of Delaware (James & Webb, 1880), by John W. Houston, Delaware. Court of General Sessions, and Delaware. Court of Oyer and Terminer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware corporations : a digest of the decisions and the law. (Dover, Del., 1920), by United States Corporation Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quaker colonies : a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware (Yale University Press, 1920), by Sydney George Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report - Department of Health and Social Services. (Dept. of Health and Social Services., in the 20th century), by Delaware. Department of Health and Social Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publication (The Department, in the 20th century), by Delaware. State Forestry Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin (Newark, 1915), by University of Delaware. Division of Agricultural Extension, University of Delaware. Cooperative Extension, University of Delaware. Cooperative Extension Service, University of Delaware. Agricultural Extension Service, and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improper home construction in Delaware: hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, on poor construction, deviation from plans and specifications on homes built under the Veterans' administration guaranteed loan program, March 3, 1956, Wilmington, Del., March 21, 1956, Washington, D.C. 1956. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress in Delaware July 1936-<Jan.-Feb.-Mar. 1937> (The Administration, 1935), by United States. Works Progress Administration. Delaware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Educational personnel directory <1969-1971/72> (Dept. of Public Instruction, Division of Planning, Research, and Evaluation., 1966), by Delaware. Department of Public Instruction and Research Delaware. Department of Public Instruction. Division of Planning (page images at HathiTrust)
• State Treasurer's report 1937/1938- (Treasury Dept.], 1938), by Delaware. Treasury Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Illinois Swedish Tercentenary Commission. Created by Sixtieth General Assembly, 1638-1938. ([Batavia herald print], 1938), by Illinois. Swedish Tercentenary Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules for merit system of personnel administration. (State Personnel Office, in the 20th century), by Delaware. State Personnel Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Population of Delaware counties and metropolitan areas (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census :, 1976), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circular. (Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Delaware., in the 20th century), by University of Delaware. Agricultural Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee on internal improvements, on the memorial of the Delaware Rail Road Co. : Read in Senate, Jan. 24, 1855. (Wharton & Harrington, pr's., 1855), by Delaware Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• An invertebrate macrofauna from the Upper Cretaceous of Delaware ([Newark, Del.], 1963), by Horace G. Richards and Earl Shapiro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great Egg Harbour to Albemarle Sound (London : Published at the Admiralty, [1871], 1871), by Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, Edmund M. Blunt, J. D. Potter, Henry Wolsey Bayfield, R. C. Carrington, John Washington, United States Coast Survey, Great Britain Admiralty, and J. & C. Walker (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address by Josiah Marvel, esq., president of Delaware charter guarantee & trust company, of Wilmington, Delaware, before the students of the Department of finance and economy of the University of Pennsylvania, May 14th, 1902. (Delaware charter guarantee & trust Co., 1902), by Josiah Marvel and Wilmington Delaware charter guarantee & trust co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years of vocational education in Delaware (State Board for Vocational Education, 1949), by Delaware. State Board for Vocational Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Narratives of early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 (Barnes & Noble, 1959), by Albert Cook Myers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geographical development and population growth in the Penjerdel region (The League, 1962), by Penjerdel (Corporation), University of Delaware, Rutgers University, and Pennsylvania Economy League. Eastern Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dutch and English on the Hudson (Yale University Press, 1926), by Maud Wilder Goodwin and Sydney George Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• State and county data, Delaware (U.S. Dept. of the Census, Bureau of the Census, 1977), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• A three-dimensional numerical model study for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and adjacent bays (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 1993), by Bernard B. Hsieh, David R. Richards, Billy H. Johnson, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Philadelphia District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maryland and Delaware. (Weather Bureau, 1948), by United States. Weather Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maryland and Delaware. (Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Data Service., 1966), by United States. Environmental Data Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maryland and Delaware section. (Weather Bureau Office, 1914), by Maryland State Weather Service and United States. Weather Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report - Department of Public Instruction. (State Board of Education., 1922), by Delaware. Department of Public Instruction and Delaware. State Board of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hourly precipitation data. Maryland and Delaware (The Bureau, 1951), by United States. Environmental Data Service, United States. Weather Bureau, and National Climatic Center (page images at HathiTrust)

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