Box Multi 06

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This collection contains one hundred ninety-five negatives of the 1930-1931 Freshman class at Washington College. These were most likely taken for the Pegasus yearbook. Since only the senior class had individually identified photographs in the yearbook it is difficult to identify each student. These negatives have been digitized for access.

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This collection contains several pieces of campaign ephemera including a “Vote the Blueprint for Progress Team” postcard, 1966, a “Vote Democratic” emery board, 1962, a Goldstein pin, circa 1960s, and a pin for Goldstein’s 1998 Comptroller campaign. There is also a “Students for Kennedy” pin and a McKeldin and Rollins pin for Theodore McKeldin’s Governor re-election and Edward D. E. Rollins’ run for Attorney General in 1954.

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This collection contains four snapshots of Louis Goldstein in Guam in 1945 during World War II. They were taken by one of his fellow Marines.

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This collection contains a scrapbook kept by F. Stanley Porter during his time at Washington College. Most of the clippings are about the Football and Baseball teams, both of which Porter was a prominent player. There are also items from other clubs and events including Mount Vernon Literary Society, dances, and award ceremonies.

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This collection contains Vaughan Rue Truitt’s recollection of his freshman year at Washington College, 1903, written fifty years later. He talks about his arrival, the campus, and the secret postal system set up among the students, he describes the dorm rooms and uses many colloquialisms and nicknames for places.

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This collection contains the World War Records of Washington College Alumni and correspondence with the Maryland War Record Commission on compiling this information.

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This collection contains the World War Records of Washington College Alumni and correspondence with the Maryland War Record Commission on compiling this information.

Scope and contents note This collection contains a transcript of a letter written by Dr. John Coats to his brother Lindsay Coats. The letter was written on June 25, 1795 in Chestertown, Maryland, while John Coats was visiting his son John Henry Coats at Washington College. Topics addressed in the letter include the estrangement between John Coats and his brother, general family relationships, John Henry Coat's time at Washington College, Dr. John Coat's desire to visit his brother in Philadelphia, and his poor...

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This collection contains a transcript of a letter written by Robert C. Thackery to the editor of The Cecil Whig. It was published in the June 14, 1870 paper. The letter was written in Chestertown, while Thackery was a student at Washington College. In this letter, Thackery laments the fact that people on the Eastern Shore are not sending their children to Washington College, and implores them to do so.