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Collection
Identifier: MS-0100
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains records pertaining to the Silver Pentagon Society at Washington College including minutes, accounts, correspondence, council notes, activities schedules, and its affiliation with Blue Key Honor Fraternity and Omicron Delta Kappa.
Dates:
1926-1937
Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0088
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains a hand-drawn sketch of the Washington College campus with some sites of proposed buildings. It was drawn on the back of stationary from the Voshell House, proprietor George E. Lambert, Chestertown, Maryland. It is undated and unsigned but based on the notation of Bunting Hall and William Smith Hall as future buildings puts it around 1903.
Dates:
circa 1903
Collection
Identifier: MS-0029
Scope and Contents
This collection contains some of Sophie Kerr’s personal records and artifacts including her marriage license, scrapbook, correspondence, and photographs. There is also information on Sophie Kerr herself and on the Sophie Kerr Prize at Washington College.
Dates:
1904-2002
Collection — Box: Multi 05
Identifier: MS-0120
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains one genealogical note related to the Stam family of Chestertown, Maryland, specifically Johannes Rudolph Stam, his wife Mary Magdalene Kuhl, and their son John Louis. Genealogical information is limited; note primarily contains the subjects' birthdays and parents' names. Some information contained in this genealogical note differ from other known genealogies.
Dates:
undated.
Collection
Identifier: MS-0051
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains records for the Student Army Training Corps at Washington College, including correspondence, memorandum, circulars, and bulletins, as well as the physical exam reports for the students involved.
Dates:
1918
Collection
Identifier: MS-0077
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains two editions of The Echo, a student-created publication, dated about 1887 and February 28, 1902. Some editors of The Echo were: Clara Usilton; Palmer Carroll; Effie Crouch; J. Wilbur Hirons; William Wheatly; Charles Wheatly; and Walter Lusby Nicholson. There is also mention of Wheatly’s sister Josephine also contributing to the publication. The first part is a biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the second contains copies of various news items from the time....
Dates:
1887; 1902 February 28
Collection — Box: Multi 04
Identifier: MS-0122
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a photograph album containing sixty seven black and white photographs taken primarily at Cow Palace in San Francisco, California. Maryland Governor Theodore R. McKeldin is the subject of many of the photographs; other photographs capture other members of the Maryland Delegation, including Pat Roche, Frank Small, Wilmer “Fell” Davis. The scrapbook also contains photographs of media representatives such as Galen Fromme, as well as politicians including Terry...
Dates:
1956
Collection
Identifier: MS-0052
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains materials from the Smyth, Young, Willson, and Strong families that have resided at Trumpington Manor for over three centuries. Much of the collection is the correspondence of Anna Young of Washington D.C. who married into the Willson family at Trumpington. Much of the later material was compiled by Mildred Strong, including the research on the Smyth family.This collection contains four series: Young family papers; Willson family papers; Smyth family...
Dates:
1742-1950
Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0084
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...
Dates:
circa 1920-1960s
Collection — Box: Multi 06, Folder: 01
Identifier: MS-0166
Scope and Contents Note
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.
Dates:
1903; 1957
