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Items associated with name 'Pocomoke City (Md.)'
Bert Thornton Collection
by Industrial Incentive Division, Navy Department; Slocumb, Jessie B.; United States of America, Office of Price Administration (1941 – 1965)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains a ration book for Jessie Slocumb, a resident of Pocomoke City, Maryland, a booklet from the commissioning from the USS KITTY HAWK in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a quick saver book from the Sperry and Hutchinson Company, better known as S&H Green Stamps, and a "Lest We Forget" booklet.
Beverly Mansion Collection
by Carper, Janice M.; Gordy, Joan; Sawin, Nancy C. (1985)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains an academic paper on the subject of the Beverly Mansion located in Worcester County, Md.
Bound Newspaper collection
by Unknown (1899 – 2007)
folders (234 linear feet)
The Bound Newspaper collection contains bound copies of Eastern Shore newspapers. Newspapers in this collection come from various locations on the Delmarva Peninsula including the Delaware coastal beaches, Sussex County, Ocean City (Md.), Salisbury, Pocomoke, and Longneck. Major newspapers in the collection are the Marylander and Herald, the Salisbury Daily Times, and the Salisbury Advertiser. Related materials can be found in the Unbound Newspaper collection (2018.044).
Cottman Family War Ration Books (Pocomoke City, Maryland)
by United States Office of Public Administration (1943)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These nine war ration books issued by the United States Office of Public Administration documents the Second World War rationing experience of the Cottman family in Pocomoke City, Maryland in 1943.
Coulbourne Farm Collection
by Unknown (1906 – 2006)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection consists of material pertaining to Coulbourne Farm in Pocomoke. Included are photographs of the house and a gravesite of Madam Hampton and a 1906 letter dictating provenance.
Ellett A. Lewis Scrapbooks
by Lewis Family (1900 – 1940)
1 box (0.75 linear feet)
Ellett A. Lewis Scrapbook collection depicts family members and friends participating in activities outside of the home in Salisbury, Maryland through photographic documentation, 1900-1940. Images include Mr. Lewis’ service in World War I, New York City, Accomack County, Virginia, Pokomoke City, Maryland, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Eastern Shore homes, roadside camping, schoolhouses, classrooms and monuments to Virginia Dare and Francis Makemie.
Folklife Collection - Cousin's One-room School Days at West Post Office
by Salisbury University Students (2001)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 2002, former Salisbury University student Ann Bloom collected folk material. Her collection explores her cousins' experience in a one room schoolhouse in Pocomoke, MD. Included is her essay, color and black and white photographs, a collection of swatches, and series of interviews.
Folklife Collection - Legends of the Pocomoke Forest
by Salisbury University Students (1993)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1993, former Salisbury University student Richard Rice and Kevin Hill worked together to collect folk material. Their object of research was the lore of the Pocomoke Forest. Though they were already well acquainted with the legends related to this forest as they used to hang out there often, they figured that a resident would know more stories.Their paper retraces their fieldwork and the mishaps they experienced when trying to get an interview. They finally managed to record one... in a public bathroom. Afterwards, they went together to the forest to try these legends out. Photographs, audiotape and videotape enclosed.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Cellar House Farm
by Salisbury University Students (1967 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1967 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected stories about folk legends. This collection of stories focus around the topic of the mysterious events that occurred at Cellar House Farm located between Pocomoke and Snow Hill, Maryland. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story about the Cellar House Farm.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Pocomoke Forest
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of ghosts, strange events, and other supernatural legends that occurred somewhere in the Pocomoke Forest. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Pocomoke Forest Legends and their Basis of Origin
by Salisbury University Students (1999)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1999, former Salisbury University student Crystal Peacher collected folk material. Her collection explores the folklore of the Pocomoke State Forest in Worcester County, MD, including stories of supernatural and morbid nature. Included is her essay, vintage post cards, and color photographs.
Folklife Collection - The Folklore of the Pocomoke Forest
by Salisbury University Students (1975 – 1975s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1975, former Salisbury University student Charles R. Clark collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of folklore from around the Eastern Shore specifically about the Pocomoke Forest. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.
Gillespie Receipt Collection
by Gillespie, T. L. (1915 – 1918)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains various receipts and bills written to T. L. Gillespie of Pocomoke City, MD. The receipts within are from the Electric and Ice Manufacturing Company, and Pocomoke Foundry and Machine Works, both based in Pocomoke City, Maryland. The receipt's dates range from 1915 to 1918.
Isabelle K. Leach Collection
by Leach, Isabelle K. (1979 – 1996)
3 boxes (3 linear feet)
The materials that are in the Isabelle K. Leach Collection are all newspaper clippings, and photos from the Salisbury Daily and Sunday Times. This collection includes Isabelle K. Leach's own articles and photos, mainly dealing with events going on in and around Pocomoke City Maryland, encompassing thirty years of events 1979-1996. Also included are various reporters articles and photos as well as many clippings dealing with the current events from 1979-1984, and clippings of Weddings and Deaths in and around the Pocomoke area.
James Norton Eastern Shore Collection
by Harman, Gretchen L. (1976 – 2007)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains photocopies and photographs of structures and family histories on the Eastern Shore. Items include documentation and pictures of J.D. Long residence and Hearn-Stevenson residence in Pocomoke City, MD, photocopy of Robert L. Krieger's "Wallops and the War of Independence" and genealogical information about the West family of Worcester County, MD by Gretchen L. Harman.
Jim Jackson Delmarva ephemera collection
by Jackson, Jim (1851 – 1992)
4 boxes, 1 oversize box (5.5 linear feet)
This collection consists of assorted local paper ephemera from 1852 to 1990. Most of the items originated from the George Bounds & Company of Hebron, the J. H. Farlow & Brother of Salisbury and the Wimbrow & Company of Whaleyville and William and Edwin Sirman. Included are cannery tokens from the Harold B. Kennerly & Son in Nanticoke, Maryland. Also included are over 925 postcards of Salisbury from the 19th to the 21st century arranged by subject.
Marah Finney Collection
by Finney, Marah; Hearn, Ebenezer; Hearn, General Ebenezer; Stevenson, John (1748 – 1989)
7 boxes (2.5 linear feet)
This collection contains materials from the Stevenson and Hearn families of Newtown, later Pocomoke City, Maryland from 1748 to 1989. The earliest documents consist of papers of John Stevenson, a doctor who attended the University of Pennsylvania for medicine in 1797 and 1798, studying under Benjamin Rush. Stevenson also settled estates, and the collection includes records detailing some of the accounts he worked. The collection also includes the scrapbooks assembled by Ebenezer Hearn, who was a teacher and involved in the Temperance Movement in the lower Eastern Shore. The scrapbooks contain news clippings related to the local and national Temperance and alcohol prohibition movement, with other clippings of national events, sermons, and education topics.
Maritime and Railroad photograph collection
by Lewis, Robert J. (1920 – 1970)
6 folders (0.06 linear feet)
Series of black and white photographic prints documenting transportation pathways of maritime steamships, tugboats and ferries as well as railroad transportation in Baltimore as well as varying locations throughout the Eastern Shore including Vienna, Pocomoke, Salisbury and Whitehaven, Maryland and Chincoteague, Virginia.
Mary Anne Pieper Collection
by Dixon, Maggie; Pieper, Mary Anne; White, Anne; White, Evelyn (1855 – 1987)
14 cartons, 1 oversize folder (17 linear feet)
This collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and journals of the Dixon, White and Pieper Families of Pocomoke City, Maryland. Beginning in the mid-19th century, extensive personal correspondence between family members chronicles a broad family history over 100 years. Family bibles and photographs capture births, marriages and deaths of the Dixon and White families of Pocomoke City as well as life on the Eastern Shore in the late 19th and early 20th century.
McAllister Family Collection
by Taylor, Annie M. (1900s)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains an obituary for Julia Eleanor Dryden Stine, family correspondence and 24 photocopies and reprinted images of the McAllister and Dryden families. All individuals appearing in the photographs have been identified.
Miles Family survey collection
by Miles, Samuel F.; Miles, William Ballard Jr.; Miles, William Ballard Sr.; Miles, William F.W. (1842 – 1978)
11 cartons (11 linear feet)
The Miles Family survey collection documents numerous Eastern Shore land boundaries. Until the mid-twentieth century, the state of Maryland did not emphasis accuracy of land surveys or the collection of deeds. The work of the Miles family allowed the State of Maryland to utilize original Eastern Shore deeds to legally designate boundary and partition lines. In numerous cases, the Miles’ family records were the only form of land documentation on the Eastern Shore. Consequently, the State of Maryland legally recognized the Miles Family Survey Collection in the court of law and have been used to settle land disputes such as the D379 Assateague Island Land suit. The collection has been the basis for issuing boundary lines, prep construction areas, mapmaking, and engineering. Many of the plats, surveys, and deeds are predominately from Somerset, Worcester, and Wicomico counties, but the collection also extends to the Upper Shore of Maryland, Delaware in Kent and Sussex, and Accomack County, Virginia. The collection is narrowed into election districts. The materials date from 1842-1978 with the bulk of the material dates from 1929-1977.
Municipal Building Cornerstone Laying, Pocomoke City, program
by Unknown (1936)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Program from the laying of the cornerstone for the new municipal building in Pocomoke City, Maryland, October 17, 1936. The program contains the highlights from the day's activities, including remarks by Pocomoke Mayor, Hon. E.W. Ross, and who's-who of city officials present.
Pocomoke City Baseball Collection
by Unknown (1898 – 1920)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection of four photographs features images of both the Pocomoke City and Pocomoke City High School baseball teams. Individuals appearing in the images are all identified.
Pocomoke City postcards
by Unknown (1938)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Two postcards documenting the State Armory and the Railroad Station in Pocomoke City, Maryland. The postcards, both sent via the United States Post Office in 1938, to Mrs. Lela Townsend who was at Mercy Hospital, Baltimore.
Pocomoke Indian records
by Unknown (1889)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The Pocomoke Indian records document the Quindocoway name applied to the Swell section of Somerset County, Maryland and the names of individuals of pure or mixed Indian blood in the surrounding Somerset County area near Crisfield. The photocopied records date from 1889; original is housed at the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution.
Pocomoke Women's Club records
by Unknown (1926 – 1990)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The Pocomoke Women's Club records contains a general history of the Women's Club of Pocomoke, Maryland from 1926-1990.
Richard Callahan photographs
by Unknown (circa 1930s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This collection includes 43 negatives of photographs showing or taken by Richard Callahan of Pocomoke City, Maryland in the 1930s. Included are beach scenes, men hunting, Washington, D.C., a Pocomoke baseball player, a steam engine, and various individuals (including several of one woman) and animals.
Worcester County Court records
by Worcester County Court (1823 – 1991)
22 boxes, 1 folder (24 linear feet)
Worcester County Court records consist of records of the Register of Wills, the Orphans’ Court, the Circuit Court, and the Department of Public Works of Worcester County, Maryland from 1823-1991. The bulk of collection is related to the settlement of estates from 1825-1919. These estate vouchers, or debts owed by and to the deceased, include those not only of white farmers, merchants and attorneys, but also of Robert Henry, an African American ship captain, and of Wong Bong, a Chinese laborer. Among Henry’s estate vouchers is a receipt from 1905 for repairs to the schooner BEERSHEBA, while among Bong’s estate vouchers is an example of Chinese calligraphy from 1914. The collection includes papers of Thomas D. Purnell, a Register of Wills, from 1890-1897, and of William Kerbin, an attorney, from 1921-1930. It also includes circuit court records of the dissolution of a business partnership between Calvine Howerton and William Duncan from 1916-1931, and records of the Department of Public Works from 1948-1991. The collection offers insight not only into Worcester County’s legal proceedings, but also into the diversity of the county’s population and into two centuries of the county’s economic development and growth.