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Joseph R. Wickes papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0066
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains the papers of Col. Joseph Wickes. Many of the papers are legal documents from his law practice while there are also various financial records. The collection has been organized alphabetically by subject. As Maryland was a slave state there are numerous documents dealing with the inventory, sale, and hire of enslaved African Americans. As well as legal dealings with free African Americans. There is a contemporary compiles Wickes family genealogy at the end of the...
Dates:
1672-1865
Kent County Board of Education deeds and survey
Collection — Box: Multi 01
Identifier: MS-0087
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains two deeds and a survey for plots of land in Millington purchased by the Board of Education of Kent County. In 1915 initiatives were made to build larger modern schools in Millington, Betterton, Kennedyville, and Rock Hall.
Dates:
1915-1919
Lillie Bounds Bailey, class of 1907, collection of photographs
Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0089
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains nine photographs belonging to Lillie Bounds Bailey, class of 1907, during her time at Washington College. Photographs include candid images of her classmates including Hilda Howard Bounds, Anna Sparks, Pauline Goslee, Mary Clarke, Minnie Raisin, Ethel Bacchus, Bob Huey, Pauline Carroll, James Bacchus, and Lusby Nicholson and Robert Gill in their dorm room. There are also portraits of Emma Ralph and Bertha Jump, in her cap and gown, as well as a ship coming into the...
Dates:
1906-1907
Lois and Marshall Turner autograph collection
Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0053
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.
Dates:
1878
M. Palmer Carroll autograph album
Collection — Box: Multi 02
Identifier: MS-0010
Scope and Contents Note
This collection is a "Mental and Portrait Album" kept by M. Palmer Carroll of Chestertown, Maryland. It asks different individuals to answer twenty-two questions. They are the same questions throughout the album. Each entry has a name and address, and occasionally a photograph of the individual. Questions include; "sweetest word in the world" and "the saddest", "character traits you admire", and "what is your motto?"
Dates:
1895-1899
Marion deKalb Smith, Jr. report card and biography
Collection — Box: Multi 03
Identifier: MS-0050
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains an 1898 report card for Marion deKalb Smith, Jr. while at Washington College. There are also two copies of Smith’s biography published through the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Dates:
1898; 1944
Marion Weeks papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0063
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the papers of Marion Weeks including correspondence, financial documents, and her writings. Marion inherited her aunt Frances Denton’s house, 107 Water St. in Chestertown, Md. Along with the house Marion also inherited her aunt’s papers which included correspondence, financials, and information on the Denton branch of the family.This collection has been separated into 4 series: Series 1: Correspondence; Series 2: Manuscripts; Series 3: Personal Papers;...
Dates:
1880-1965
Middle Dutch Psalter
Collection
Identifier: MS-0146
Scope and Contents Note
This is a trigesimo-segundo sized Psalter, circa 1500, in Middle Dutch. The text includes a calendar, litany, and offices. It is believed that it is from the Utrecht region possibly from one of the convents devoted to St. Katherine. Some pages have been cut from the book; these were most likely the highly decorated scenes that separated the various sections of the text. The book is handwritten on parchment in its original binding but is badly damages and missing parts of the book lock. There...
Dates:
circa 1500
Mount Vernon Literary Society address and invitation
Collection
Identifier: MS-0037
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains an address written by J. Frank Hazell entitled “March of the American Mind.” He gave the speech in August of 1866 to the Mount Vernon Literary Society during commencement. There is also an invitation dated November 3, 1860 to Dr. C. C. Cox from the Society committee for him to speak on February 22 as part of the Washington Birthday Celebration. Dr. Cox did accept and gave a speech “Demagogues and their arts.” A review of this speech and its comment on a tense...
Dates:
1860; 1866
Mount Vernon Literary Society records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0095
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains records related to the Mount Vernon Literary Society at Washington College including accounts, minutes, constitutions and bylaws, as well as some publications and programs of events.
Dates:
1875-1941
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