Box Multi 03

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a group photograph for Chestertown High School class of 1915.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

This collection contains a constitution, invitation, and program from the Pieria Literary Society.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

This collection contains a constitution, invitation, and program from the Pieria Literary Society.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection:

This collection contains a constitution, invitation, and program from the Pieria Literary Society.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a letter from Joseph R. Wickes to Miss Elizabeth Nicholson a teacher at a girl’s school in the home of Gen. Ringgold in Hagerstown, Maryland, dated January 26, 1829. The letter appears to concern legal matters particularly Miss Nicholson’s statement.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains eight autographs from 1878: poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier; Charles Sherwood Stratton, also known as General Tom Thumb; poet Oliver Wendell Holmes; President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife Lucy; author Mark Twain; poet William Cullen Bryant; caricaturist Thomas Nast, whose signature includes a sketch of the artist; and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains to a letter of recommendation to the Orphans Court of Cecil County for admittance of James M. Touchstone as a student to Washington College from James McCauley, esq., Principal of Port Deposit Academy. There is no record of James attending Washington College.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a letter home written on the playbill for the Washington College Dramatic Club’s production of “A Full House” where Nellie played the role of Susie. The letter talks about the production and the dramatic club as well as other news.

Scope and Content Note This collection contains loose photographs that had once been part of scrapbooks. Several of the images seem to be from one album, they include a group photograph of the Washington College football team circa 1920 and several of players in uniform. There are also photographs of three students, one wearing a varsity sweater, on the steps and on the roof of William Smith Hall, and some photos most likely taken on the roof. There are also other scrapbook photographs including two women on the...

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.