Margaret Fayerweather Meigs family photograph collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains family photographs from the Fayerweathers and includes items and images of the Doan and Kriby-Smith families. All three families have roots in New England and the Midwest. Job Parker Doan, Sr. (1799-1874) was Dr. Fayerweather’s great uncle. Some of the images are labeled, but many are not.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1860-1942
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Publication rights
Copyright has not been assigned to Washington College. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Washington College as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Biographical Information
Margaret Fayerweather Meigs (1913-1950) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 11, 1913, to Dr. Roades Fayerweather (1877-1955) of Chicago and Josephine Kirby-Smith Fayerweather (1878-1961) of Tennessee. She married Frederick Alton Meigs (1908-1980) in 1938. Meigs was from New York. Meigs served as the Librarian at Washington College from 1940 to 1957. Together, they had four children.
Full Extent
1 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Physical and Technical Access Restrictions
None.
Custodial history
Materials were in possession of the family.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Margaret Fayerweather Meigs Family Photograph Collection
- Author
- L. Sheldon
- Date
- 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Washington College Archives & Special Collections Repository
300 Washington Avenue
Chestertown MD 21620