Commerce

Vouchers, manifests, clearances and similar papers the schooners David F. Keeling of Baltimore, and Hattie E. Giles, captained by C. E. Bennett in 1876-8 and 1878-9, respectively. Engaged in West Indies and Brazilian trade from Baltimore and NY.

This collection contains 3 volumes of materials related to the Cannon and Shipp families, circa 1823-1865.

This manuscript collection is comprised of papers from John McCulloh and his sons James, Andrew, and Samuel. The collection features correspondence that covers several topics, including commerce, bonds, invoices, bills, medical training and travel.

108 photostats, each containing 2 pages of journal of Paul Bentalou, Baltimore merchant. Account of trades in general merchandise in North and South America, West Indies, Europe. Transactions are entered in full detail, narrative form. Occasional references to national and international politics, and to slave trade, immigration from South America, etc.

This collection contains copies of Baltimore trading firm of Richard H. and William Douglass to correspondents in the United States, West Indian and European cities. The business letters written to Haiti and the West Indies are in French and discuss the trade in sugar, tobacco, logwood and other articles as well as the fluxuating value of currency (gourdes, doublons, etc.).

This collection consists of four typescripts of family history of the ancestors of Robert Lyon Mayall. The information in the typescripts was compiled from primary sources in the Maryland Historical Society.