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Rider photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: PP 0040

Abstract

This collection contains family portraits of the Rider, White, McConkey, Haslup and Bateman families, with pictures of their houses and other sites in the Ruxton and Waverly areas near Baltimore, Maryland.

Dates

  • 1850-1969

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

The reproduction of materials in this collection may be subject to copyright restrictions. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine and satisfy copyright clearances or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections. For more information visit the MCHC’s Rights and Permissions page.

Biographical / Historical

The Rider family was owner of a Baltimore County tract of land known as Riderwood, in the vicinity of which the area known as Ruxton originated. The name Ruxton appears in connection with the area in the late 1880s, when the Northern Central Railway built a station by that name from which people traveled to Baltimore city for work, shopping, and entertainment. In 1906 the railroad ran 37 local trains each day between Baltimore and Parkton, Cockeysville, and Greenspring Junction, as well as Harrisburg and York, Pennsylvania. The line was later taken over by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and operated until 1959.

Around 1880, the Rider family had numerous plots in the area, including Edward Rider's estate called "Malvern", just east of the railroad tracks and slightly northeast of Lake Roland. On the west side of the railroad, and south of Joppa Road, the McConkey family had a place. Other families in the area included Ellicott, Finnan, Kapp, Meyers, and Hooper, as well as Haslup and Coale. William B. Rider, born in 1857 to Edward and Rebecca Anne McConkey Rider, married Kate A. Bateman.

Various members of the Bateman family resided at 1021 York Road in Waverly; during the 1880s and 1890s, Clinton, Clara, Ernest, Leonard and James are listed in the Baltimore Directory at this residence. In the 1870s and 1880s, James S. Bateman operated a grocery at 1023 York Rd., which was taken over by William Joesting in the 1890s. W. Ernest Bateman was a photographer with an establishment at 116 South 4th Street (this address may have been in Minneapolis, Minnesota).

Extent

1.0 Linear Feet (1 flat box)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

The photographs are arranged in folders according to PP catalog number.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Ethel C. Rider, 1980.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 1 box with 50 photographs, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, and albumen cartes de visite studio portraits, primarily from years ca. 1860 through 1900, with a few earlier and later items. Subjects are Rider, White, McConkey, Haslup and Bateman family portraits, with pictures of their houses and other sites in the Ruxton area of Baltimore County. There is a group portrait of "The Literary Club of Ruxton at Thornton".

Title
Guide to the Rider photograph collection
Status
Under Revision
Author
Katherine Cowan
Date
1999-07
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Revision Statements

  • 2020-01-17: Manually entered into ArchivesSpace by Mallory Herberger.

Repository Details

Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository

Contact:
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750