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Ford - Roberts Family History Collection
by Ford, Roland (Undateds)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
This collection contains a variety of family records and detailed genealogical records that trace the family roots of the Ford/Roberts families. There is a separate notebook that is a copy of the Ford family genealogy that was presented to Robbie Wilmer Ford in August 1978. This is in addition to the other folders containing copies of birth and death certificates, scrapbooks, photos, newspaper clippings, family trees and military records.
J. Millard Tawes Museum manuscript collections
by Crisfield Heritage Foundation (1870 – 2001)
2 boxes (2 linear feet)
This collection consists of small manuscript collections that were housed at the J. Millard Tawes Museum in Crisfield, Maryland. It contains correspondence, a scrapbook, photographs and negatives, financial records, and notes and ephemera from people in Crisfield between the 1870s and 1969 (and 2001), though primarily between 1939 and 1945.
Judy Brittingham collection
by Brittingham, Judy (1930 – 1970)
1 oversize box (1.5 linear feet)
The collection of Judy Brittingham contains a series of objects and manuscript records including a granite hitching post from Cherry Hill with the initials ‘L.W.G’ carved at the top, a large wood trunk belonging to the Graham family, Two black and white photos of downtown Salisbury and a small one of a woman. This collection contains a Wicomico Historical Society exhibit folder which contains colored photos, two brochures, four newspaper articles, four thank-you cards/email, and one ‘Wicomico Recollections’ local newsletter addressed to Mr. and Mrs. John Brittingham. This collection goes on to include genealogy material of the Gunby and Graham families such as photocopied photographs of 1800’s family members, family trees, printed-out pages of endless research links with the Graham and Gunby families, newspaper clippings from 1972 celebrating 100 years of the Gunby business being around in Salisbury, printed or copied letters of family members writing to each other such as John Gunby writing to his father and even that of letters written on hotel paper by L.W. Gunby himself in the 1930s. Finally this collection includes a mass of newspaper clippings of events such as shootings, car accidents, and it also has many obituaries and wedding notices.
Kathryn Adkins Collection
by Kathryn Adkins (1905 – 1985)
1 box (1.1 linear feet)
This collection contains documents from Adkins Lumber Company and its founding family members as well as books, photographs, and newspapers from their involvement in various Maryland politics and urban development projects from 1905 to 1986. Also included are maps and booklets from Samuel F. Adkins’ time in World War 1.
Laurel-Thomas Young Collection
by Young, Thomas (1937 – 2000)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
The Laurel-Thomas Young Collection mostly documents the life of "Tommy" Young from 1937 to 1948 while he was a teenager and student at State Teachers College in Salisbury. The collection includes a photograph of the 1937 Salisbury Indians, Eastern Shore League baseball team, a scrapbook of S.T.C. baseball clippings and dance cards, and two issues of The Holly Leaf. Also included is a postcard from Salisbury State University and a metal button which reads "Salisbury State Go Gulls."
Lawrence Webster Bates Methodist Protestant Church Scrapbook Collection
by Bates, Lawrence Webster (1847, 1896)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains photocopies of a scrapbook consisting mainly of clippings from newspapers concerning or by Reverend Lawrence Webster Bates and the Methodist Protestant Church.
Lina Lecates Scrapbook
by Lecates, Lina (1925 – 1927)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
Lina Lecates was a student at Maryland State Normal School from 1925 to 1927. This scrapbook contains programs and keepsakes from Lina Lecates’ time at the Maryland State Normal School. This includes letters, dried flowers, engagement announcements, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and a doily.
Lindley Lentz Scrapbook
by Lentz, Lindley (1946 – 1947)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
Lindley Lentz was a student at State Teachers College from 1946 to 1947. Captain Lentz later became a naval officer. This loose scrapbook contains student items from 1946 and 1947 such as grade cards, an admission letter, tuition receipt, student handbook, alma mater and fight songs, and other programs.
Live Stock and Chickens scrapbook
by Unknown (1899 – 1912)
1 oversize box (1.5 linear feet)
The Live Stock and Chickens scrapbook documents the poultry and cattle industry from 1899-1912 through a series of newspaper clippings from the American Agriculturalist, the Country Gentlemen, and the Practical Farmer as well as series of U.S. Department of Agriculture pamphlets on poultry management, ducks and geese, breeds of dairy cattle, and turkeys.
Luis Alaniz Collection
by Alaniz, Luis (1940 – 1994)
6 boxes (5 linear feet)
The Luis Alaniz collection consists of the personal scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, and military memorabilia of World War Two veteran Luis Alaniz. Born October 28, 1922 in Dallas, Texas, Alaniz enlisted in the United States Army on September 10, 1940. He was initially a Medical Technician, promoted to Private on May 25, 1941 and later Corporal on July 16, 1942, but was later a technician in the 755th Railway Shop Battalion. Alaniz was sent to Europe (France and Belgium) on December 5, 1943 and returned on October 5, 1945. He later worked for the New Mexico National Guard, United States Air Force in Sandia Base, and was part of the International Chemical Workers Union in Los Angeles, California.
Manokin Hall Scrapbook
by Unknown (1966 – 1973)
1 box (1 linear feet)
Manokin Hall was built in 1964 and renovated in 2010. It was the first dormitory building constructed after the Men’s Dormitory (now Wicomico Hall). This scrapbook contains photographs of women residents and resident advisors who lived in Manokin Hall from 1966 to 1973. While some photographs document school-sponsored events like homecoming, many depict parties, after-school activities, and other daily happenings.
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.