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Judy Brittingham collection

1 overize box (1.5 linear feet)

(1930 – 1970)

Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland

Identifier 2012.121
Creator(s) Brittingham, Judy
Acquisition

The Judy Brittingham collection was donated to the Nabb Research Center by John and Judy Brittingham, 2012. 
Language(s) English
Use Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use."
Preferred Citation "Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland."
Attribution Finding aid written by Larissa Carman, December 2012.
Related Materials

Gunby Family papers (1854 – 2000)

L.W. Gunby papers (1845 – 1991)

Joseph A. Graham papers (1860 – 1942)

George White Collection (1730 – 2007)
Separated Materials See Nabb Center Staff
Abstract

The collection of Judy Brittingham contains a series of objects and manuscript records including a granite hitching post from Cherry Hill with the initials ‘L.W.G’ carved at the top, a large wood trunk belonging to the Graham family, Two black and white photos of downtown Salisbury and a small one of a woman. This collection contains a Wicomico Historical Society exhibit folder which contains colored photos, two brochures, four newspaper articles, four thank-you cards/email, and one ‘Wicomico Recollections’ local newsletter addressed to Mr. and Mrs. John Brittingham. This collection goes on to include genealogy material of the Gunby and Graham families such as photocopied photographs of 1800’s family members, family trees, printed-out pages of endless research links with the Graham and Gunby families, newspaper clippings from 1972 celebrating 100 years of the Gunby business being around in Salisbury, printed or copied letters of family members writing to each other such as John Gunby writing to his father and even that of letters written on hotel paper by L.W. Gunby himself in the 1930s. Finally this collection includes a mass of newspaper clippings of events such as shootings, car accidents, and it also has many obituaries and wedding notices.

Biographical History

Judy Brittingham is part of the Wicomico Presbyterian Church and used to be appointed to the Friends Of Poplar Hill Mansion Board.

Scope and Content Note

Series I: Wicomico Historical Society

Series II: Gunby and Graham Family History

Series III: Newspaper Clippings

Arrangement Statement

Folders are listed by their location within each box; any given subject may be disbursed throughout the entirety of the collection. 

Subject Terms

  • Topical Terms
    • Graham Family
    • Gunby Family
    • Scrapbooks
  • Corporate Names
    • Wicomico Historical Society
    • Wicomico Public Libraries
  • Personal Names
    • Graham, Joseph A. (1855-1910)

Inventory List

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Series I: Wicomico Historical Society

1 | 1  Colored photos of the ‘A Day on the Farm in 1844’ exhibit (1996), Two brochures of the exhibit (one blue, one yellow), Four newspaper clippings featuring the exhibit, Three thank-you cards to the creator of the exhibit, Judy, and one thank-you from Judy to everyone who was involved, ‘Wicomico Recollections’ newsletter to Judy and John.

Series II: Gunby and Graham Family History

1 | 2  Genealogy Research for the Gunby and Graham Family

1 | 3  Two black and white photos of the L.W. Gunby buildings, also a photo of an unknown woman

Series III: News clippings

1 | 4  Scrapbook of newspaper clippings

Artifacts

See Nabb Center Staff

Attachments

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