MAN. Manuscript Collections

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The Israel Fielder papers contain business and financial papers from Fielder Israel, John Robert and Thomas B. Israel, respectively, correspondence, and church records. These materials are dated between 1790 and 1916.

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The papers of J. Alexis Shriver (1872-1951) are contained in 17 boxes and number approximately 3,000 items. Shriver was a business administrator, public celebrations organizer, local history buff, and collector of manuscripts. The latter three aspects of his life are represented best in this collection, which spans the years 1790 to 1945.

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The J. Hall Pleasants Papers consist of nine series of family and business documents which span the years 1773-1957.

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This collection contains the papers of James Morrison Harris, a Baltimore lawyer and member of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland. The dates of the collection span 1778-1928.

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This collection consists primarily of material collected by Kelly in relation to his special interest in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The collection includes a large number of news and periodical clippings, as well as correspondence, which touch on such topics as the art, architecture, history, and religion of the Anne Arundel County region. Also includes a number of Kelly's manuscripts (both published and unpublished) which are accompanied by notes and bibliographic information.

Abstract The collection consists of the personal papers and the documents collected by John Thomas Scharf, an historian. Also included are the papers of Philadelphia historian Thompson Westcott. Topics covered in Scharf's personal papers are methods of historical research and the Baltimore Sesquicentennial in October 1880. The collected documents owned by Scharf include Confederate States of America naval records, 1863-64, Maryland state documents, 18th-19th century, and other original manuscripts....

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This collection consists of seven scrapbooks (1948-1969) compiled by J. Webster Jones (1893-1971) in which he collected newspaper articles and photographs related primarily to Baltimore City and the State of Maryland.

Abstract The J. F. Obrecht & Company was a candy and tobacco distributor founded in 1886 and surviving until 1971. The material within the Jacob F. Obrecht & Company records span the first several decades of the 20th Century, with the exception of some documents dating from 1886. The collection consists of general business correspondence dating from 1886 until 1942, as well as several accounting and record books, including a ledger, two catalogues of cigar labels, and two catalogues of...

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The James Howard McHenry account books consists of 4 volumes detailing Sudbrook farm financials, 1843-1901.

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This collection contains the journals of James Howard McHenry, dated 1836-1878.