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Agriculture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

Steiger family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2501
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of William Tell Steiger (1801-1888) and his wife, Hannah Van Patten Steiger (fl. 1865-1900), both of Brightwood Farm near Laurel in Howard County, Maryland. This collection well documents the agrarian lifestyle that characterized pre-industrial America.

Dates: 1807-1887