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Col. Oswald Tilghman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0109
Scope and Content Note This collection contains both personal and business papers belonging to Col. Oswald Tilghman. The personal correspondence deals with family genealogy, societies and organizations, and politics. The business papers deal with some legal work but mostly with real estate transactions for property on the Eastern Shore including Beverly, Wye Heights, Mister’s Farm, Readbourne, Renwick Farm, Morling’s Neglect, and the Harrison property in Talbot County. There are also receipts, banking, and...
Dates: 1884-1940
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Constance Stuart Larrabee collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0030
Scope and Content Note This collection contains photographs, negatives, correspondence, organizational records, clippings, and ephemera from Constance Stuart Larrabee. The photographs are primarily from her time on the Eastern Shore and with Washington College. There are also prints from her work during World War II and in South Africa. The organizational records relate to the Friends of the Arts and the Larrabee Arts Center at Washington College.This collection has been divided into seven series:...
Dates: 1950-2014
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Cotillion Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0099
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a volume with minutes, member lists, financials, orchestrate addresses, and reviews of events put on by club including invitations and dance cards. There is also a folder of membership lists, bylaws, and correspondence with Al Holland and his Orchestra removed from volume.

Dates: 1923-1932
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Diocese of Easton letter book

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0138
Scope and Contents Note This collection contains a letter book from 1884-1897, maintained by James A. Pearce, for the Diocese of Easton. It is comprised of drafts of letters written by Pearce during his service as Chancellor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Easton. The majority of the letters are addressed to other Episcopalian clergies, including Bishop Henry C. Lay, Bishop William Forbes Adams, and the Reverend R.R. Walker, among others. Topics addressed in the correspondence include rules governing the...
Dates: 1884-1897
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Dr. Margaret Horsley photographic research collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0027
Scope and Content Note This collection contains photographs taken by Dr. Horsley in the Philippines during her time as a Fulbright Scholar from 1951-1952. As a sociologist she photographed the people, places, and events of the Negros Oriental region of the Philippines, including festivals, churches, death rituals and funerals, traditional weaving and fishing, cockfighting, and mahjong. Horsley also documented the Moro people in Mindanao, the destruction of Typhoon Amy, and other areas outside the Philippines...
Dates: 1951-1952
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Dr. Thomas C. Kennard ledger

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Identifier: MS-0107
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains an account ledger for Dr. Thomas C. Kennard’s medical practice. It lists accounts for various individuals in Kent County including some free African Americans. Personal letter and documents were interspersed in the ledger and have been removed to a folder. These include accounts, receipts, letters including one from his son, Peregrine Wroth, Ezekiel Chambers, and Harmony School. There are also legal documents including a lease to Swan Creek Farm.

Dates: circa 1830-1860s
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Dudley Reed negatives

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0045
Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains large and medium-format black-and-white negatives of various events. Those taken for the college include commencements and awards, John F. Kennedy’s campaign visit, and photographs of Charles Downs. Other images of events and people in Chestertown and the surrounding area were taken, most likely for the Kent News.

This collection is organized by subject.

Dates: circa 1950-1970
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Eben F. Perkins speeches

 Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0043
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains typescripts of two speeches given during commencements. The first was on August 19, 1848 when Perkins was a junior, the topic was Poland. The second speech was during his graduation on August 18, 1849, it addresses the Board, students, and faculty and talks about the pursuit of education.

Dates: 1848-1849
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Edward J. Malan collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0033
Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains correspondence, including V-mail, between Edward Malan and his family and his fiancé Sophie Kramer. It also includes his military records, information on marrying during the war, photographs, and artifacts from his time during the war.

Dates: 1942-1945
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Edwin T. Luckey, class of 1931, photographs and sheet music

 Collection — Box: Multi 04
Identifier: MS-0094
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains seven photographs from the RKO production department showing models and sets for various films and a portrait photograph of Edward. There is also sheet music for “On the Good Old Eastern Shore” written by Luckey and Al Herman, a childhood friend. Both were fond of music, banjo in particular, and dances.

Dates: circa 1935-1952
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

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