Records, 1866-1991.

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Records, 1866-1991.

The records of the First Unitarian Society consist of basic minutes and membership books for the society as a whole and the minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous records for the Ladies Aid and Women's Alliance, including clippings and reports on the Birth Control League. Historical miscellany includes several printed histories of the society, photographs of church buildings, and other ephemera. Orders of service (1924-1959, incomplete) are the monthly bulletins issued to members at services, including the order of worship and various social announcements. The May 1939 issue has cover art by 22-year old Andrew Wyeth.

6 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6720546

Hagley Museum & Library

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National Alliance of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian Women

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First Unitarian Society of Wilmington (Wilmington, Del.).

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The first Unitarian Society was established on April 8, 1866, at a meeting of seventeen people at the Wilmington Institute and formally organized under state law on July 7, 1866. It was the first Unitarian congregation in Delaware. Original members came primarily from the Pusey, Lea, Warner, Sisson, Sears, Felton and Wainwright families. Perhaps the most famous member in later years was the illustrator N. C. Wyeth. The first church edifice opened in the spring of 1868 on West Street...

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009

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Andrew Wyeth (b. July 12, 1917, Chadds Ford, PA–d. Jan. 16, 2009, Chadds Ford, PA) was a realist painter and one of the best known American artists of the 20th century. He is the son of artist N.C. Wyeth and began drawing at a young age. In 1937, at age twenty, Wyeth had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at the Macbeth Gallery in New York City....

Delaware Birth Control League.

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MacKinnon, John G.

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