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Listed here is the source material I consulted in the creation of the exhibition and additional, recommended reading!
Angelos, Meghan. “Private Mailing Card Period (1898-1901)” in “Greetings from Delaware: A Century of Postcards.” Accessed November 20, 2025. https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/greetings-from-delaware/home/private-mailing-card-period-1898-1901/
Caley, George L. Post Cards of Yesteryear: 1893-1926; Delaware and Elsewhere. Shane Quality Press, 1973.
Casey, Edward. Remembering: A Phenomenological Study in “History, Memory, and Identity,” The Collective Memory Reader, eds. Jeffrey K. Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Daniel Levy. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Corbett, Theodore. “The Assembly, Courts and Committees,” in Revolutionary New Castle: The Struggle for Independence. The History Press, 2012.
Cure, Monica. “The Voracious Postcard: The Craze of Collecting.” In Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century. University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Delaware Public Archives. George and Irene Caley Collection. Accession No. 9015.028.00. Delaware Department of State, 2013.
Gikandi, Simon. “Rethinking the Archive of Enslavement.” Early American Literature 50, no. 1, 2015, 81-102. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24476612.
Hancock, Harold Bell. Liberty and Independence: The Delaware State During the American Revolution. Delaware American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1976.
https://archivesfiles.delaware.gov/Online-Guide-Collections/9015-028-000.pdf
Kürti, Lázló. “Picture Perfect: community and commemoration in postcards.” In Working Images, eds. S. Pink, L. Kürti, and A. Afonso. Routledge, 2004.
Martin, Paul. “The story so far,” in Popular Collecting and the Everyday Self: The Reinvention of Museums? Leicester University Press, 1999.
Mbembe, Achille. “The Power of the Archive and its Limits,” translated by Judith Inggs. Refiguring the Archive, eds. Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele Pickover, Graema Reid, and Razia Saleh. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2002.
Rowland, Beverley W. “New Castle County,” in A Guidebook to Delaware's Historical Markers, National Historic Landmarks, Bronze Tablets, Monuments, Memorials, State Markers, Districts and Selected Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. First edition. Cedar Tree Books, 2013.
Saito, Hiro. “From Collective Memory to Commemoration,” in Handbook of Cultural Sociology (629-638). Routledge, 2010. https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3154&context=soss_research
Samuels, Linda C. “Urban Artifacts and the Collective Memory: The Postcard as a Memory Palace,” in LA CITTA NOUVA -THE NEW CITY (368-373). Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture International Conference, 1999. https://www.acsa-arch.org/proceedings/International%20Proceedings/ACSA.Intl.1999/ACSA.Intl.1999.74.pdf
Stevens, Norman D. “Welcome to the World of Postcards.” Postcards in the Library: Invaluable Visual Resources. The Haworth Press, 1995.
Stewart, Susan. “Objects of Desire: Pt. 1: The Souvenir,” in On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. 1st paperback ed. Duke University Press, 1993.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “The Power of the Story.” In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon Press, 1995.
Works Progress Administration. Delaware: A Guide to the First State. Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, 1938. Reprint, Delaware Heritage Press, 2006.
“Caesar Rodney.” Delaware Public Archives. Accessed December 10, 2025. https://archives.delaware.gov/delaware-historical-markers/caesar-rodney-kca2/
“Introduction,” in Commemoration in America: Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory, eds. David Gobel and Daves Rossell. University of Virginia Press, 2013.
“The Little Church (Old First Presbyterian).” Great American Treasures, The National Society of the Colonial Dames in America. Accessed October 15, 2025. https://www.greatamericantreasures.org/destinations/the-little-church-old-first-presbyterian/