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Shriver collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0750
Abstract

The Shriver collection consists of daybooks, ledgers, cash books, and other accounts of the Shriver family businesses at Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland (flour milling, saw millings, tanning, stores at Petersburgh and Big Pipe Creek). A majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence between the various members of the Shriver family concerning business and family happenings.

Dates: 1784-1944

Shriver family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0750.1
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of correspondence between the various members of the Shriver family, 1712-1876. The letters reflect land affairs, business topics, and family news.

Dates: 1712-1876

Thomas Swann collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1826
Abstract Collection consists of correspondence addressed to Thomas Swann while he was president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Correspondence chiefly written by Swann's associates at the B and O, such as James Cooke and B. H. Latrobe. Also includes financial reports, annual reports, Swann's speeches and Swan's essays. The collection also consists of numerous receipts, bills and business papers. Many papers relating to the account of Elizabeth Gilmor Sherlock with Robert Gilmor....
Dates: 1815-1886

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