Box Multi 03

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a notebook kept by Charles Smith started April 3, 1783 while a student at Washington College, Chestertown, MD. It is entitled “Plane Trigonometry and the application of it to the taking of Height and Distances: Also Surveying and the Division of Lands and also the Laying out of New Lands.” Included among the examples is a problem based on the Siege of York.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains photographs taken by or belonging to Wilbur Jackson Stenger, Sr. while he was a student at Washington College. Seven images are of at least two different biplanes on campus and three are aerial photographs of Washington College most likely taken from one of the planes.

Scope and Contents Note This collection contains nine photographs belonging to Lillie Bounds Bailey, class of 1907, during her time at Washington College. Photographs include candid images of her classmates including Hilda Howard Bounds, Anna Sparks, Pauline Goslee, Mary Clarke, Minnie Raisin, Ethel Bacchus, Bob Huey, Pauline Carroll, James Bacchus, and Lusby Nicholson and Robert Gill in their dorm room. There are also portraits of Emma Ralph and Bertha Jump, in her cap and gown, as well as a ship coming into the...

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains an advertisement for the Chestertown Female Seminary run by Mrs. P. Trible. The ad includes the courses for instruction and the rates for the term. There are notes on the reverse and updates to the rates by Col. Joseph Wickes and his wife who most likely attended the open house in January 1858.