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This collection contains the papers of Joshua Barney and his descendants. This includes correspondence, financial documents, land records, business papers, military service records, and more.

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This collection contains the personal and business papers of Judge David Fowler, Chief Judge of the Maryland Circuit Court in the late 19th century.

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The Frick family papers includes papers of socially prominent Baltimore and Washington, D.C. families, primarily from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. The three main families are the Fricks, Poultneys, and Turnbulls, but scattered items from related Sloan, Carroll, Denison, Brown, Ramsay, and Spense families are here as well. The papers include correspondence, genealogies, accounts, land papers, diaries, travel diaries, and recipe books.

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This collection contains the business and financial papers of Robert W. Fowler, a delegate to the Maryland General Assembly a-nd Maryland's State Treasurer, 1862-1870.

Abstract The collection consists chiefly of letters written by Samuel Moor Shoemaker by business associates (especially men employed by the Adams Express Company), friends, some Shoemaker family members, and a few politicians (e.g. Schyler Colfax 1823-1885 and James A. Garfield 1831-1881). The letters contain information about Shoemaker's business ventures (especially the Adams Express Company), family news, and expressions of gratitude from the recipients of gifts given by shoemaker. Other letters...

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The Stirling collection contains a wide variety of manuscript items most of which relate to the Stirling family of Shane, Maryland, in the 7th district of Baltimore County. The collection includes deeds, indentures, wills, plats, surveys, tax levies, receipts, promissory notes, bills of sale, account books, and correspondence.

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Personal papers in the form of receipts, stock certificates, indentures, as well as papers and correspondence relating to interest of John Augustus Sutter tract near Sacramento.