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Philomathean Literary Society minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0096
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains the minutes of the Philomathean Literary Society. There are also drafts of the Society’s constitution.

Dates: 1895-1900
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Pieria Literary Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0098
Scope and Content Note

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

Dates: 1896-1908
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

President Mead inauguration scrapbook

 Collection — Container: Volume 01
Identifier: MS-0133
Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains a scrapbook of clippings regarding the inauguration of Gilbert W. Mead as President of Washington College on October 21, 1933. The inauguration was attended by Governor Ritchie and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who received an honorary degree at the event.

Dates: 1933
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Price R. Stradley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0159
Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains Stradley’s military records, maps of areas in the Pacific theater, training manuals, and official Navy publications.

Dates: 1940-1945
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Rembrandt Peale letter, forgery

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0116
Scope and Contents Note In 1944 the college acquired a painting purportedly by Rembrandt Peale, a letter by Peale also came with the painting. For decades it hung in the President’s Office. In 2001 Dr. Carol Eaton was asked to authenticate the painting and determined it to be a forgery. This collection contains a letter from Rembrandt Peale to Peter Roller, April 5, 1851, a forgery by Ferdinand Danton, Jr. There is also correspondence regarding the painting of George Washington in Masonic regalia also purportedly...
Dates: 1851; 1944
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Rev. Franklin Knight Honorary Degree letter

 Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0079
Scope and Contents Note This collection contains a letter from Peregrine Wroth to Franklin L. Knight announcing that the Board of Visitors & Governors of Washington College has unanimously conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity on Knight. The letter also mentions that the college does not give many honorary degrees, and this should speak highly to Franklin Knight’s accomplishments. The Honorary Degree was awarded at the August commencement in 1857. Peregrine Wroth was a professor of chemistry and served as...
Dates: 1857 August 6
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Richard T. Earle, Jr. essay

 Collection — Box: Multi 02
Identifier: MS-0017
Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains an essay entitled “Were England and France Justifiable in Declaring War Against Russia?” Earle’s essay says the war was justified citing Russia’s treatment of Turkey and its continuous expansion.

Dates: 1856
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Ripley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0101
Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains financial, legal, and personal documents for several families tied to Ripley.

This collection is arranged into eight Series: Boardley family papers; Brown family papers; Miscellaneous; William Skinner papers; Smyth family papers; Alpheus Wheelock papers; Abraham Woodland papers; and James Woodland papers.

Dates: 1659-1938
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Robert C. Thackery letter (transcript)

 Collection — Box: Multi 05
Identifier: MS-0143
Scope and Contents Note

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.

Dates: 1870 June 14
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

Samuel Ringgold trigonometry notebook

 Collection — Container: Volume 01
Identifier: MS-0103
Scope and Content Note This collection contains a notebook belonging to Samuel Ringgold with various lessons including astronomy, navigation, trigonometry, and an essay on industry. There are many beautiful hand-drawn diagrams. There is faint writing on both covers one of which indicate he used it while attending Washington College, there are also various dates in different parts of the book, one cover has 1787, a flyleaf of multiple signatures has 1786, while a clear flyleaf mentions President Washington and...
Dates: 1786-1792
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections

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