MAN. Manuscript Collections

Abstract The Robert Goodloe Harper Family Papers consist of manuscripts belonging to the Harper, Carroll, and Pennington families. The collection begins in 1747 with a file of letters to Richard Croxall on the Baltimore Iron Works and concludes in the twentieth century with papers of various members of the Pennington family. The bulk of the collection, from 1784 to 1825, centers around Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825) and his wife, Catharine Carroll Harper (1778-1861), and include correspondence...

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The collection contains correspondence, certificates, awards, a scrapbook, and other materials related to Robert F. Kniesche. Robert Kniesche (1906-1976) was a longtime Baltimore Sun photographer

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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.

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The Robert Oliver papers contains incoming letters from business associates and friends, 1789-1835.

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The collection is comprised of documents signed by the governors of Maryland from 1777-1987, including letters, autographs, and signed official documents collected by the donor, Robert R. Hudson.

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This collection contains correspondence and ephemera related to Robert W. Wayland’s participation in various yachting clubs in Maryland and his service to the North American Yacht Racing Union as an Executive Committee member.

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The Robertson scrapbook is an one-volume item presented to W. Robertson on January 26, 1886 by his friend Frederick Ringgold. The scrapbook contains a variety of clippings, anecdotes, and etchings.

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The Roger Johnson account books are the business records, day book, invoice book, and ledger of Roger Johnson. The materials are related to Bloomsbury Mills the property of Johnson who was the youngest brother of Governor Thomas Johson. The materials are dated 1806 through 1842.

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The papers in the Rose family collection span from 1877 to 1918. The materials consist of mostly letters and diaries, with a few invitations, a speech, a Confederate note, and a telegram. They have been arranged into two series: the papers of Douglas Hall Rose, and the papers of John Carter Rose.

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This collection contains letters to the Bullus family in Little Gunpowder, Baltimore County, Maryland from family members in Chicago and New York City. Topics include the deaths of relatives, life in New York and Chicago, stock purchases, and support for the Union in the Civil War.