Gunston Hall, Fairfax Co., Virginia, built 175?, undated

The collection consists of 2 boxes containing 279 modern photoprints made at the Maryland Historical Society during the 1980s from glass negatives created during years ca. 1860s-1943. Many images are reproductions of artworks, documents, and publications dating from the late 18th century to the 1940s, with a few copied items from the 17th century. There are relatively fewer original photographs, images made in the 1860s through the 1940s. Most of the glass negatives have duplicate/copy negatives. There are an additional 370 film negatives (both original photographs and copies of documents, artworks, and publications) for which we have neither prints nor duplicate/copy negatives.

Copied documents relate to the genealogy of the Glen(n), Perine, Barroll, Washington, Bushrod, Ludwell, Buchanan, and Aylett families. The documents include diaries, plats, programs, newspaper items, and records of organizations such as St. Paul's Church, The University of Maryland, and Friends' Monthly Meeting. There are also copies of family portraits for which originals were paintings, drawings, or prints. A large quantity (ca. 230) of the unprinted negatives are copies of pages of the publication Maryland Scenes, which includes landscape photographs of Maryland Counties: Baltimore, Allegheny, St. Mary's, Harford, Carroll, Charles, Garrett and Talbot.

Subjects of original photographs are Perine family members and associates ca. 1860s through the early 1900s, including photographs of Capt. George A. Custer and Lt. James B. Washington, C.S.A. in the 1860s; Perine family homes and other historic houses documented during years 1915-1924, including Harwood and Claymont Houses (W. Va.), Homeland and the William B. Perine house at Charles and Eager Sts.; scenes of Baltimore City in the early 1900s; Friends' Meeting houses in Baltimore and vicinity; the George Carey School (1883-1884) and the Wm. Marston School (1886).