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Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0368
Abstract
Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. was born in Baltimore in 1903. During the 1930s, he served in the Maryland legislature. In 1938, he founded the Mount Vernon Improvement Association and spent much of the rest of his life fighting to retain the original architectural integrity of Baltimore's Mount Vernon Place. He was also a founder of the Johns Hopkins University Milton S. Eisenhower Library's Friends of the Library. The collection of Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. consists mostly of items related to...
Dates:
approximately 1800-1975
Found in:
Special Collections
Floyd-Urner family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0629
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, ephemera, a small collection of material related to the "Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina," photographs, and a scrapbook. Correspondence is primarily written by and to members of the Floyd and Urner families from the 1890s to the 1930s. The small collection of materials relating to the "Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina" spans 1896 to 1915 and...
Dates:
1800-1984; Majority of material found within 1800 - 1945
Found in:
Special Collections
H. L. Mencken collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0476
Abstract
This is an artificial collection made up of printed ephemera, letters, and photographs that accompanied books by and about H. L. Mencken.
Dates:
1900-1996
Found in:
Special Collections
Kent D. Currie papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0556
Abstract
Kent D. Currie was an expert of printing and typography who lived in Baltimore, Maryland. The bulk of the collection is formed by Currie's collection of type samples. It includes brochures from Europe, in particular Holland and United States, with a significant attention to Baltimorean type designers. Noteworthy is also Currie's correspondence. The papers span the 1920s to 1950s.
Dates:
1920s-1950s
Found in:
Special Collections
Thomas family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0763
Abstract
Included is a large group of letters and ephemera from the Thomas family, a family with deep Maryland roots known for its ancestors, politicians John Hanson and John Hanson Thomas. John Hanson (1715-1783) was the first elected President of the United States in Congress Assembled, the first to serve a one-year term under the provisions of the Articles of Confederation. Dr. John Hanson Thomas (1813-1881) was a renowned Maryland legislator arrested during the Civil War for voting for Secession,...
Dates:
1835 - 1976
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Aylett, Judith Page Waller, 1804-1860 1
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 1
- Currie, Kent D. 1
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Frary, Richard, 1947- 1
- Gordon, Douglas Huntly, Jr., 1903-1986 1
- Gordon, Douglas Huntly, Sr., 1867-1918 1
- Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947 1
- Hanson, John, 1715-1783 1
- Hess, Sol, 1886-1953 1
- Johns Hopkins University. Department of Political Economy 1
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- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
- Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC 1
- Oppersdorff, Mathias T., 1935- 1
- Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951 1
- Thomas, Douglas H. (Douglas Hamilton) 1
- Thomas, Douglas H., Jr. (Douglas Hamilton) 1
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