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Baltimore (Md.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1301
Scope and Contents

Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There are also selected letters and portions of a diary copied from originals in the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1829-1862
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Linah Arnett Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2614
Overview

Two letters from Linah Arnett, in Baltimore, to his wife and family; two photocopies of letters to Linah Arnett from F.S. Morgan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Linah describes a shopping trip to Baltimore, and Morgan's letters to Linah concern the circumstances and professions of mutual friends who have moved west.

Dates: 1838, 1853, 1854
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lorentz Family Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4103
Overview Correspondence between members of the Lorentz family of Buckhannon, Upshur County, (West) Virginia. Includes eight letters from scattered dates between 1848 and 1857. Most of the letters were written by Mifflin Lorentz to his wife Fannie (Whitey) Lorentz; these letters include two love letters written before their marriage (1848) and four letters written while Mifflin was travelling on business (1848-1857). These four letters remark upon business, difficulties he had traveling, and...
Dates: 1848-1857
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Luther Haymond, Surveyor, Diary and Surveyor's Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0772
Scope and Contents

A hand written journal kept by Col. Luther Haymond of Harrison County, [W.] Va., from 1830-1833, telling of his travels and experiences at the time. The journal notes Haymond’s observations while traveling by horse from Harrison County, West Virginia, to Baltimore, Maryland. There are descriptions of Baltimore, Romney, Charles Town, and other places.

Dates: 1830-1833
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Margaret B. Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2537
Overview Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides,...
Dates: 1783-1991, 2021, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1910-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Reynolds Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0048
Overview Extracts from a diary of a tour of the eastern states by a resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, with descriptions of travel through Greenbrier, Fayette, Kanawha, and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia. Subjects covered include descriptions of buildings, as well as musings about diversions and people of various U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. (where Reynolds attended a session of Congress and heard Clay, Calhoun and...
Dates: May-July, 1841
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates: 1743-1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center