100th Anniversary Publications – dinner cards and menus, 1978

The Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club manuscript collection contains papers related to the history and activities of the Elkridge Fox Hunting Club, the Elkridge Hounds, Inc., the Harford Hunt Club, and the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club (EHHC). The material consists of letters, financial records, invitations, fixture cards, race programs, organizational publications, and membership lists. The collection spans the years 1884 to 1992.

The bulk of the material consists of records and correspondence collected by J. Rieman McIntosh while researching the history of the EHHC for his 1978 book. Most of this material relates to the twentieth century history of the Club. The collection does not contain the complete organizational records of the EHHC, but it does contain the minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors for the years 1927 to 1935, and copies of the by-laws for 1937 and 1961. There is also a wealth of correspondence relating to the 1934 merger of the Elkridge Hounds, Inc. and the Harford Hunt Club.

The hunt season runs from September to March, and fixture cards with details of the Club events were mailed once a month throughout the season. The McIntosh family saved almost all of their fixture cards, so that the events of the EHHC from 1889 to 1992 have been preserved and are found in Series IV of the collection.

In 1978, the EHHC celebrated its 100th Anniversary, and both J. Rieman McIntosh and his wife Elizabeth Mayo Atkinson were involved in planning the celebrations. Series III of the collection contains the records of the Financial Committee and the Invitations Committee on which they served.