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MAN. Manuscript Collections

 Classification
Identifier: MAN

Found in 600 Collections and/or Records:

Ashcom and Reeder family genealogical collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2856
Abstract

This collection primarily consists of genealogical records pertaining to the families of Ashcom and Reeder, but the families of Muir, Dawson, Thompson, Hooper, Gourley, Gould, Godwin, and Briscoe are also mentioned.

Dates: 1890-circa 1960s

Associate Reformed Congregation of Baltimore records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1742.1
Abstract

This collection contains the records for the Asssociate Reformed Congregation of Baltimore, including registers of adult members, occasional communicants, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and removals.

Dates: 1812-1865

Association Against Prohibition Amendment clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1544
Abstract

This collection is composed of copies of newspaper, newsletter and theatre program clippings arguing against the Prohibition Amendement in 1916.

Dates: 1916

Atkinson and Smith family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2473
Abstract

This collection consists of personal papers belonging to the Atkinson and Smith families as well as business papers related to the Baltimore Chemical Works, a firm operated from 1833-1851 by James E. Atkinson (d. 1851) and his brother-in-law, Robert Marsh Smith (1813-1893).

Dates: 1806-1943

Austin McLanahan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2467
Abstract

Collection of letters and speeches written and delivered by Austin McLanahan (1871-1946) at meetings of the Politics-Literary Club, a private literary society.

Dates: 1903-1942

Autograph and engraving collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1941
Abstract

This is an artificial collection of famous autographs and engravings of notable individuals within the MdHS collections. The dates of the material range from the 17th century to the 20th century. Famous names include Queen Victoria of Great Britain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Alexander Hamilton, and Napoleon Bonaparte, among many others.

Dates: 17th-20th century

Baden-Robertson family manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2629
Abstract

This collection contains a scrapbook, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and genealogical notes on the ancestors of Elinor Robertson Baden (b. 1895).

Dates: 1924-1930; Majority of material found in 1924-1926

Bahr family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3017
Abstract

The Bahr Family Collection spans over 70 years from 1928 to 2001. Leonard Bahr, an artist himself, was enthusiastically interested in the Baltimore art scene. Materials included in this collection are correspondence, publications, newspaper clippings, a phonograph, a broadside, and a topographical map of Baltimore. Generally, these items relate to the artistic community and Baltimore as a whole.

Dates: 1928-2001

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2003
Abstract This collection is the partial archives of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for the years 1859-1880 and contains the records of the President’s Office (the President during this period was John Work Garrett, 1858-1884). The collection includes correspondence, receipts, reports, telegrams, and newspaper clippings pertaining to all phases of the company's history from 1859-1880. Topics include finance, traffic, railroad competition and combination, labor, legal questions, politics, management...
Dates: 1859-1880

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2157
Abstract

This collection contains documents related to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The majority of documents in this collection relate to the creation of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad.

Dates: 1852-1951