Subject Files, 1890-1973

This series contains newspaper articles about the history and civic organizations of Charles County dating between 1926 and 1974 and correspondence and minutes of organizations in which P. D. and/or Margaret Berry Brown participated in the 1950s and 1960s, with the bulk of the materials covering 1931 to 1960. Included is material on Port Tobacco, the Smallwood Foundation, Smallwood's Retreat, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, the Slot Machine Study Committee, the U. S. Naval Propellant Plant at Indian Head, and the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. Tobacco is the main topic covered in many of the reports and pamphlets in this series.

The bulk of the material covers the Charles County Fairs from 1931 to 1973. Included are programs, advertisements, minutes of various planning meetings for many of the fairs and pageant scripts. Script authors include Kathleen Read Coontz, H. S. Swann, T. Beverly Campbell and Howard Southgate.

Newspaper articles, correspondence and minutes document the business of the Charles County Garden Club, the La Plata Beautification Commission, the La Plata Town Council, the Public Library, and the Physicians Memorial Hospital Women's Auxiliary from 1944 to 1972.

The Smallwood Foundation Board documents include brochures, correspondence, and minutes from 1939 to 1973. The Maryland 1962-1963 Slot Machine Study Committee records include correspondence and research documents and charts. The University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service activities from 1950 to 1968 include information about Thomas Baddeley Symons, the director through most of Brown's employment by the Service and several of its Horticulture brochures written by Harry William Dengler.

Arrangement is alphabetical by topic and chronological within the folders.