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Edward E. Ayer typescript memoir

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0719
Abstract Edward Everett Ayer (1841-1927) was an American business magnate, best remembered for the endowments of his substantial collections of books and original manuscripts to the Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He had over time built an immense fortune out of supplying timber to the 19th century's fast-growing railroad industry. The collection contains a bound volume of a memoir written by Ayer, titled Reminiscences and Travels of Edward E....
Dates: circa 1924

Johns Hopkins University Maryland ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0673
Abstract

This is an artificially-assembled collection with manuscript items selected by curators in Special Collections. This collection contains diaries, postcards, letters, and other material related to history and life in Maryland, 1818-2015 (Bulk: 1818-1957).

Dates: 1818-2015

Keyser family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0082
Abstract

Papers produced and collected by the Keyser family of Baltimore, Maryland. The Keysers accumulated wealth in the 19th and 20th centuries through mercantile businesses, inheritance, and a variety of industries, including the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, copper and iron works, and investments in land and real estate. They used some of this wealth to finance Baltimore’s public and private institutions, including Johns Hopkins University.

Dates: approximately 1784-1985; Majority of material found within 1870s-1950s

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Maryland 2
letters (correspondence) 2
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Goodnow, Frank J., 1859-1939 2
Johns Hopkins University 2
Keyser, R. Brent, 1859-1927 2
Arnold, Rosie J. 1
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927 1
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Baltimore (Md.). Burnt District Commission 1
Baltimore (Md.). Sewerage Commission 1
Baltimore Oriole Festival 1
Baltimore Stationery Company 1
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Baltimore sun 1
Barnes, Patrick Henry, Jr. 1
Boyd, Albert 1
Brent family (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Bromo-Seltzer 1
Buckler, W.H. (William Hepburn), 1867-1952 1
Cameron, V. V. , Dr. 1
Carlton, Phebe, Mrs. 1
Carroll, Marion V., Miss 1
Causten, James H., 1788-1874 1
Church, Ann 1
Clark, Juliana Brent Keyser, 1891-1975 1
Creamer, David 1
Derr & Thompson 1
Eastern Female High School (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Englar, Mildred F. 1
Field Museum of Natural History 1
Goodrich, Michael T. 1
Hager family (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Harris, Sally 1
Hebb, George 1
Hejos, Mitzi 1
Hoffman, Agnes Augusta 1
Hoffman, Ernst H. 1
Hopkinson, B. 1
Howard Family 1
J.H. Schaefer & Son 1
Katz, M. Benjamin 1
Kell, Thomas, 1772-1846 1
Keyser Family 1
Keyser, Mary Brent 1
Keyser, Samuel, 1835-1906 1
Keyser, William, 1835-1904 1
Koppers Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Bartlett-Hayward Divison (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891 1
Lester, John, active 1825-1864 1
McDonald, Christie, 1875-1962 1
McHenry family (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Mitchell, Clarence, III 1
Norddeutscher Lloyd 1
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 1
Peters, Catherine 1
Polk, J.P. 1
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866 1
Pugh, Ann Peck, 1782-1865 1
Ring, Blanche, 1871-1961 1
The Holmes I. Mettee Studio 1
Thomas, Henrietta M. 1
Thompson family (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Thurston, A.C., Mrs. 1
Tilghman, Oswald 1
Touchstone, Clara 1
Townsend, Florence, approximately 1886- 1
WJZ-TV (Television station : Baltimore, Md.) 1
Whitney, Milton 1
Willard, Daniel, 1861-1942 1
Wright, Eliza Lea Warner 1
Wyman Family 1
Wyman, Samuel, 1809-1883 1
Wyman, William, 1825-1903 1
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