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MAN. Manuscript Collections

 Classification
Identifier: MAN

Found in 600 Collections and/or Records:

Francis Scott Key legal papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3009
Abstract

This collection contains materials that center around Francis Scott Key's legal practice. The legal documents include land claims, deeds of indenture, and insurance claims. There are also documents pertaining to land disputes with the Choctaw Nation. Other materials in the collection are receipts for a variety of items, such as pew rentals, groceries, schooling, and subscriptions, as well as family genealogy research and letters to Mr. Francis S. Key Smith, a great-grandson of Key.

Dates: 1812-1977; Majority of material found in 1820-1850

Frank H. Robinson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3143
Abstract

This collection contains various items collected by the donor, Frank H. Robinson.

Dates: 1834-1948

Frank R. Kent scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0181
Abstract

Clippings of Mr. Kent's articles in the Baltimore Sun, The Great Game of Politics

Dates: 1918-1958

Frank Rush Webb diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1015
Abstract

This collection contains 32 volumes of personal diaries belonging to composer and musician Frank Rush Webb from 1868-1932. Also included are 13 volumes of trip logs, as well as 1 volume of cash accounts from 1899.

Dates: 1868-1932

Frederick County document collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2401
Abstract

This collection consists of documents from Frederick County, Maryland. The bulk of the collection is made up of land indentures but also included are deeds, bills of sale, mortgages, petitions, bonds, promissory notes, and recognizances for Raphael Taney, Joseph Chapline, Daniel Dulany, Matthew Bartgis, and the Lohr family.

Dates: 1749-1841

Frederick County Historical Society collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2417
Abstract

This is an artificial collection consisting of photocopies of original material owned by the Historical Society of Frederick County. The collection contains correspondence, genealogical information and some legal papers relative to Frederick County families from 1741-1935. The bulk of the material falls in the period of the Civil War.

Dates: 1741-1935

Free Summer Excursion Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0372
Abstract

The Free Summer Excursion Society records consists of 6 boxes of society minutes, financial records, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous deeds and leases.

Dates: 1875-1960

Frick family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2703
Abstract

The Frick family papers includes papers of socially prominent Baltimore and Washington, D.C. families, primarily from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. The three main families are the Fricks, Poultneys, and Turnbulls, but scattered items from related Sloan, Carroll, Denison, Brown, Ramsay, and Spense families are here as well. The papers include correspondence, genealogies, accounts, land papers, diaries, travel diaries, and recipe books.

Dates: 1747-1960

Friedenwald family manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3170
Abstract

This collection contains the correspondence of Moses and Jane Friedenwald to their family in Baltimore, Maryland. This primarily includes letters to Moses’ brother, Aaron Friedenwald, his wife Bertha, and their son Harry. Moses’ poor health dominates the earlier letters, in which he and Jane provide in-depth descriptions of his gallbladder and liver problems.

Dates: 1876 - 1888

G. Harry Pouder collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1888
Abstract This collection contains scrapbooks and ephemera belonging to George Harry Pouder, an official of the Baltimore Association of Commerce and an avid patron of the arts. His scrapbooks contain news clippings of world, national, and local events, items connected with his position in the Baltimore Association of Commerce, theater programs, invitations, dinner menus, tickets and ephemera connected with his journeys in America and overseas, and various Charcoal Club items from his tenure as...
Dates: 1895-1955