MAN. Manuscript Collections

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This collection contains the papers of the prominent lawyer and politician, George L. Radcliffe (1877-1974). Included are personal papers that deal with his family and his property in Dorchester County, Maryland; papers pertaining to his twelve years as a United States Senator; and papers concerning his affiliation with various social, political, economic, and historical organizations.

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Voluminous daily diary kept by Bel Air, Maryland resident George Lindenburger Van Bibber IV (1906-1979). He describes subjects such as meals, weather, conversations, parties, clothes, financial transactions, movies, books, radio and television programs, world affairs, and travels. The diary volumes are indexed in a card catalog system invented by Van Bibber in 1947.

Abstract This collection of papers stems from research done by George McCullough Anderson on Adalbert Johann Volck (1828- 1912), a Baltimore dentist and artist during the Civil War. Series I consists of letters to and from Anderson concerning the life and work of Volck, and about various exhibitions of Volck's etchings. It includes correspondence with the Pratt Library, Baltimore, The Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Peale Museum Valentine Museum, the MHS, and Johns...

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This collection contains scrapbooks kept by George W. Archer on Harford County historical material, primarily news clippings of articles by him in local papers.

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This collection consists of correspondence, notes, deeds, wills and plats relating to the Getzendanner family and related branches. Edna Irene Schulz compiled the data that remains in note form.

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The collection is comprised primarily of correspondence as well as legal documents, deeds, wills and indentures, and some of Judge John Glenn's and his son William Wilkins Glenn’s personal correspondence, including letters from Reverdy Johnson, Daniel Webster, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Maryland Governor Thomas Pratt, General Henry Heth, General Louis Wigfall.

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The Gordon-Blackford papers consists of 9 boxes of primarily correspondence between the families of John Montgomery Gordon and Eugene Blackford.

Abstract This collection is largely the papers of Arthur Pue Gorman (1839-1906). They deal with his long political career as U.S. Senator (1880-99, 1903-06) and as Baltimore Democratic Party boss (1880s-1906). The papers consist of correspondence, a diary, speeches, and scrapbooks. Correspondence includes letters from prominent Marylanders and national political leaders such as Grover Cleveland, Cardinal Gibbons, Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, A. P. Belmont, and Marcus...

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This collection contains the papers of the Gorsuch and Mitchell families of "Retreat Farm," Baltimore County, Maryland. The collection consists of estate papers, including financial, legal and land records. The collection also contains diaries, medical account books, correspondence, and documents related to enslaved individuals. Other families represented include Bowen, Stansbury, Ensor, Merryman, and Matthews.

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This collection primarily contains legal and personal papers of Harry Dorsey Gough (1745-1808) as well as some business and personal correspondence of Harry Dorsey Gough Carroll (1797-1866).